Angry Parents Sue After Gender Testing Fake Out

For the "If it's too good to be true..." file: Six New York mothers have sued a company that offered 99.9% accurate gender testing. For $275 and a blood sample (via a kit), Baby Gender Mentor claims to give gender testing to women as early as 5 weeks pregnant; the Post points out that's 2-3 months before a gender may be detected by sonogram or "amniocentesis and typically the cutoff point for abortions -- although no one suggested in the court papers that was the reason they took the test." Well, here's one's plaintiff's story: Keven Duffy wanted to "surprise her husband with the news that they were going to have a son. The couple already had a daughter, and was hoping for a boy for 'family balancing.'" The company said she was having a boy, but "a sonogram revealed they were having a girl...The flip-flop 'caused stress' in her marriage...and she and her husband have since divorced." The plaintiffs' lawyer also points out that 10-20% of the company's clients claim wrong results. Related: How Asians in the U.S. may be embracing sex selection techniques (IVF or sperm sorting) or abortion to ensure having male children.

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By Jen Chung in News on June 16, 2009 10:45 AM

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JoeyGirl

imagine how their first daughter will feel about her parents wanting a son so bad that they divorced when they had another daughter. :(

NannyState

Maybe he wanted boys for reasons other than "family balancing"...

DOLPHIN

I suppose conservative mind set wants the family to carry on. If some of the kids carry the mother last name, gender would not matter much.

DOLPHIN

family name*

r1b2

Golly, this is pathetic. Whatever happened to simply wanting healthy children who don't grow up to rob liquor stores or kill you in your sleep?

r1b2

Golly, this is pathetic. Whatever happened to simply wanting healthy children who don't grow up to rob liquor stores or kill you in your sleep?

brooklynmouthoff

It's amazing to me the great lengths that Gays and lesbian must go to in order to have a family, and morons like this can simply fuck each other make create "families."

Losers.

Rocknrope

On a similar note, how many of you know women who got married to have a kid, then divorced shortly thereafter? I personally know of two who divorced within a year. I'm thinking its just women who are cresting that time zone of safely having a kid, and marry the first schmo that comes along so they can pump one out and then get on with their lives.

Better than some random CL hookup I guess.

Felix Hoenikker

Except that dad gets stuck with alimony and child support.

ANGRYGOD11

It's very common.

Every single married sperm donor I know who was dumped by the wife after the baby came made far less than the wife and never paid a dime. And in most cases the ex-wife was fine with it as it kept him far away.

ninrvana

Makes you wonder why in the hell gender matters so much to begin with. "Oh, boo-hoo, we bought all this blue stuff and now we're having a girl! Our lives are ruined!" It's all so fucking ridiculous.

jonathan

These people don't deserve to reproduce.

Steven

Must have not been a good marriage. Breaking up because of the sex of a child!?

maevemealone

I think it's safe to say this was a "band aid" baby and as often happens, it didn't do the trick.

nicemarmot

Wasn't this a plotline on That 70's Show?

angry_pickle

Such crazy pettiness. Are these people from the UWS or the UES?

schadenfreudian mensch

Park Slope.

longacre

How is babby formed?

barryap

They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back?

Gwinny

it was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids . they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots

Trilby16

That will be nice for the little girl when she gets old enough to discover that her parents divorced and filed this lawsuit because she failed to have a penis.

Rocknrope

I'm betting that's going to be the least of her problems.

Rocknrope

I'm betting that's going to be the least of her problems.

Jen S

Right? Awful.

Global Wombat

Stress. The parents sound like a pair of head-cases. Sadly, their gene pool will continue to live on through their disproportionately gendered children.