by Sharon Preves, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, Hamline University
Welcoming a newborn child into an expectant family and surrounding community is fraught with emotion. Imagine how emotions in the delivery room might change if a newborn were pronounced "intersexed,"-a condition with external genitalia that are not clearly female or male, as occurs in 1 or 2 in 2,000 births.
by Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
At a recent meeting I was greeted with the exclamation, "Sarah! You have to see this video. The mom had the most horrified look on her face while the dad was interacting with the baby! She could hardly keep from interfering with him while he was dressing the baby!"
