{"id":1921,"date":"2010-11-14T20:35:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T01:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2010-11-14T20:35:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T01:35:24","slug":"1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2010\/11\/14\/1921\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama w\/Pen: Is Social Expectation Destiny for a New Generation of Parents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-11-09\/boy-baby-names-gender-neutral-trend-from-cullen-to-cameron\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4151\/5177049694_ed36451845_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span class=\"articlebyline\">Last week baby name expert Pamela Redmond Satran,  co-author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312539150\/thedaibea-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Ava &amp; Aiden<\/a><\/em>, published a piece at The Daily Beast about how more and more parents are choosing  gender-neutral boys&#8217; names, reflecting<\/span><span class=\"articlebyline\"> a different ideal of masculinity <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-11-09\/boy-baby-names-gender-neutral-trend-from-cullen-to-cameron\/\">(Boy Baby Names: Gender Neutral Trend, from Cullen to Cameron<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span class=\"articlebyline\">).\u00a0 I&#8217;m quoted at the end:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAmong my generation of parents, our nontraditional boys\u2019 names\u2014vaguely  androgynous, nonmacho, or just plain unique\u2014reflect our own desire to  raise sons who will be as comfortable pushing dolls in strollers as  pushing trucks,\u201d said Deborah Siegel, Ph.D., author of <\/em><em>Sisterhood, Interrupted and founding partner of <a href=\"http:\/\/shewrites.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SheWrites<\/a>&#8230;.\u201cBut what I wonder is this: Will a boy by a different name really be that much more sweet?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It got me thinking.\u00a0 Offspring of a generation that believed boys and girls were made, not just born, I know better. \u00a0But the nature\/nurture debate rages on.\u00a0 And sometimes I wonder whether\u00a0social expectation has replaced biology as destiny.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if social expectation, and not biology, shapes who children become, does that somehow put an unfair burden on us to create the self-confident, athletic, truck-loving girls and sensitive, doll-hugging boys we were raised to achieve?<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, I&#8217;m in a bit of a knot about it all.\u00a0 Probably just because I just haven&#8217;t had much sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Would love to hear what YOU think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week baby name expert Pamela Redmond Satran, co-author of Beyond Ava &amp; Aiden, published a piece at The Daily Beast about how more and more parents are choosing gender-neutral boys&#8217; names, reflecting a different ideal of masculinity (Boy Baby Names: Gender Neutral Trend, from Cullen to Cameron).\u00a0 I&#8217;m quoted at the end: \u201cAmong my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21107],"tags":[2397,21387,21395,21676],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mama-w-pen","tag-boys","tag-gender-studies","tag-girls","tag-pamela-redmond-satran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}