直到仅仅几年前,生男还是生女仍然是一件令人难以把握的事情。现在已不再如此了。如今有机会利用最新基因检测技术的父母可以相当准确地预先决定自己孩子的性别,就像莫尼卡·柯林斯和斯科特·柯林斯夫妇一样。两年前,在做过基因筛选之后,在弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯的一家生育诊所里,他们欣喜地迎来了期盼已久的女儿杰西卡的诞生。 Until just a few years ago, the birth of a man or a child is still a difficult task. This is no longer the case. Nowadays, parents who have the opportunity to use the latest genetic testing technology can determine their child’s gender fairly accurately, just like Monica Collins and Scott Collins. Two years ago, after a genetic screening, at a fertility clinic in Fairfax, Virginia, they welcomed the long-awaited daughter Jessica.