Which statement is correct about North American parents' stated preferences for a newborn?
a. The clear majority of both men and women want a boy as their first child.
b. Parents are particularly likely to want a boy as their last child.
c. Fathers are more likely than mothers to want a boy as their last child.
d. In the earlier research, parents clearly preferred boys; in more recent studies, parents express no clear-cut gender preferences.
Question 2
According to the discussion of atypical prenatal development,
a. almost all intersexed individuals request surgery to make their external genitals consistent with their sex chromosomes.
b. all infants are either male or female at birth, because hormonal and internal reproductive systems that have been atypical early in prenatal development will adjust themselves during the month prior to birth.
c. many adult intersexuals emphasize that intersexed children should not be forced into either a male or a female gender category.
d. when a more careful examination is performed on an infant originally classified as an intersexual, that infant can be clearly categorized as either male or female.
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