D.C. Area Nesties
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Unnatural Selection
I heard the author, Mara Hvistendahl, interviewed on NPR the other day and just read a book review about it in the Wall Street Journal. Has anyone read the book yet? I just added my name to the library wait list. The book sounds fascinating and horrifying. I always knew that gender selected abortion was being practiced in the developing world, and every once in a while you read about gender imbalance, but I never understood the full consequence or seen the issue presented so completely. The author says the world is currently missing 163 million girls. That's mind boggling to me.
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| From December 29, 2011 |
Re: Unnatural Selection
I heard a portion of this interview the other day, too. It was fascinating and pretty scary. Especially the data she had about how in societies where there are large numbers of unmarried men (which happens when there are so few girls), the violent crimes go way up.
Baby248 - ETA 1/10/13