Dr Johns believes that an optimistic frame of mind may lead to physical changes in the body that make it more likely that a woman will conceive a male child.

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Today, he lives with his male partner and their child, now 10 and the academic high-flyer of his local school.

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Kim said her results didn't change with the child's birth order -- another possible allergy risk factor -- or if the child was male or female.

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They don't care whether he is male, female, elderly or child.

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"I have a child and one day a male guest was full frontal, " said Dian Chen, an artist, who has lived in Manhattan Plaza since 1978.

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One familiar explanation is that young women push hard at first to forge a career, but then bump up against a glass ceiling kept in place by a combination of antique male attitudes and the complication of organising child care.

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"I saw the female look over the male's shoulder and look towards the child, " she said.

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It takes a village to raise a child and there is no shortage of male and female parental figures to raise happy, healthy children.

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The daughter no longer a child, Constance no longer the object of the male glance?

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Born on 27 April 1967 as the first child of Queen Beatrix and the late Prince Claus, the Prince of Orange is the first male head of state of the Netherlands since 1890.

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