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On specifiying the sex of a child not yet born in adoption:

There are of course agencies and attorneys who will be happy to work with you. There are not many, because even the best ultrasound imagry can be wrong and they do not want an expectant parent left with no adoptive parents at birth simply because an ultrasound was wrong.

When you do specify that you are only interested in parenting a child of one sex, understand that you limit yourselves and that limiting yourselves generally causes longer wait periods. You will not be considered in situations where there is no ultrasound or the ultrasound is ambiguous.

I would then hold that if a boy is an imperative for you, something you're absolutely certain you want to the point that you would reject a placement of a girl, then parental placement probably isn't for you. You would be best served by adopting a born child - either through domestic waiting child or international waiting child.

JMHO

Regina