Dad ridiculed after complaining that wife 'can't give him a daughter'
A father has been blasted and then ridiculed by social media after his wife revealed he’d complained that she ‘couldn’t give him a daughter’. After recently giving birth to her sixth son, the woman was horrified to come across a text message exchange between her husband and his brother moaning about how he didn’t have a little girl to dote on.
Looking for some advice on how to handle the situation, the 29-year-old mum of six wrote: “We always talked about children and we both always said that we wanted to have all girls, but we ended up having six boys aged eight, seven, five, three, two and a one-month-old. I don't care because the only thing that matters to me is that they are all healthy, but apparently, my husband doesn't think that way.
“Exactly a month ago we had another boy and he felt disappointed. We decided to wait until he was born to find out his gender and when he was born my husband just laughed and that was it, it is obvious that he loves him and is happy with him, and he's an amazing dad, to be honest, but he still feels disappointed.”
The woman revealed that when their newborn son was just two weeks old, she needed to use her husband’s laptop and noticed his WhatsApp was connected. Unable to help herself she had a little look and read a conversation he’d had with his brother.
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She continued: “He told him that he was disappointed that I couldn't give him a daughter, he said that he loves our children and doesn't regret having them but that he still dreams of having a daughter and that it saddens him to know that we will probably never have one.
"He also sometimes thinks about what would have happened if he stayed with his ex-girlfriend - she currently has three girls - and honestly reading that made me feel really bad. There is nothing I can do to determine the gender of our children. It is horrible to know that he is still thinking about someone with whom he has not had a relationship for more than a decade.”
The mum-of-six explained that she’d confronted her husband about what she’d read straightaway and he instantly apologised, telling her he loves her and their children and he shouldn’t have said those things about his ex.
She went on: “I still have a bittersweet feeling, it's like everything he said is stuck in my head and I can only think about it. I didn't bring it up again because I don't want to look stupid, but I feel so sad and depressed and I haven't stopped feeling that way since I read those messages. How can I forget what he said? Is it normal to think about what would have happened if you stayed with your ex-partner?”
The heart-breaking confession was met with a mixed reaction from people with many blasting the man for his insensitivity and also mocking him for not knowing basic human biology. One person wrote: “He's either a dingus or just being a jerk. The sex is 100 per cent determined by the sperm. Literally completely on him, has nothing to do with you.”
Another person added: “As soon as I read the title I laughed. Everyone knows the baby's sex is determined by the father's sperm. We all get an X chromosome from mom. The one that's still up in the air is from Dad. So, I'd say it's no one's fault but if he insists on pointing fingers, he'd have to point inward.” Someone else commented: “That’s what had me cracking up. This is some Henry VIII shifting of the blame of sex of the children. This man just has Y heavy sperm.”
While a fourth person explained: “Your husband needs to pick up an eighth-grade biology textbook. Let me spell it out for him. Human eggs have an X chromosome (contributed by the mother whose chromosomes are XX), and human sperm can have either an X chromosome or a Y chromosome (contributed by the father whose chromosomes are XY).
"If the egg is fertilized with an X-chromosome-carrying sperm, it's a girl. If it's fertilized with a Y-chromosome-carrying sperm, it's a boy. If you have all boys, it's 100 per cent on your husband. Not on you. And this business of "giving him a daughter" is an extremely 17th-century attitude. Children are not chattel and they are not owned by their fathers.”
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