gender selection
Picking child's sex
Gender selection is choosing the sex of a child before or during pregnancy, whether through medical technology or folk methods.
Couples may pursue it to balance family composition or avoid sex-linked genetic disorders.
The term also applies to selective abortion based on fetal sex—a practice that has skewed population ratios in some countries.
- babyVery young child
- embryoOrganism before birth
- designer babyGenetically customized offspring
- IVFLaboratory-aided conception method
- fertility treatmentMedical help conceiving
test tube baby · sperm · fertility · clinic · boy · girl · baby boy · baby girl · chromosome · genetic · screening · ultrasound · conception · family planning · reproductive · biological sex · prenatal · testing
- character creationrace, class, name, appearance, attributes
- sex selectionsex ratio, X chromosome, Y chromosome
gender selectionnatural conception
Pregnancy achieved without fertility treatment
non-intervention · genetic lottery · chance · randomness · fate
gender selectionnon-intervention
Policy of staying uninvolved
gender, selection, genders, gendered, gendering, genre, genres, genus, genera