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Mornings: With Kaye Adams - 17/09/2019

With Kaye Adams - 17/09/2019

BBC Radio Scotland - Mornings, With Kaye Adams - 17/09/2019

After a couple decide to keep their child's sex a secret  - should baby just be baby?

After a couple decide to keep their child's sex a secret to stop gender bias - should baby just be baby?

Parents Jake and Hobbit have taken the unusual decision to keep the sex of their baby secret.  The pair, from Keynsham near Bath, did not even tell the child's grandmother until they were 11 months old.  They say "gender bias is unconscious" and this is the only way to mitigate against that.
After a couple decide to keep their child's sex a secret to stop gender bias - should baby just be baby?

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