This is why demanding that girls should be allowed to wear trousers – and that women should be allowed to wear flats – is a practical issue, and demanding boys wear dresses is something else.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The young Afghan woman gave birth to a third girl three months ago — to a husband, the authorities say, who had been demanding a boy.
During the saga of Elián González, the Cuban boy whose mother drowned in 2000 while trying to take him to Miami and whose father wanted him back in Cuba, Castro led marches in Havana demanding the boy's return.
Girls more than boys experienced their parents as demanding, while boys experienced their parents as more intrusive.
The bivariate associations displayed in Table 1 indicate no gender differences as regards responsiveness and neglecting, but girls, more than boys, experienced their parents as demanding, while boys more than girls experienced their parents as intrusive.
On March 18th, after Friday prayers at al-Omari Mosque, in Dara'a, thousands of people marched, demanding the boys' release.
It was the largest such rally since early December, when hundreds of thousands of people rallied to demand the boy's return in some of Cuba's biggest gatherings since the triumph of the revolution that brought Mr. Castro to power 41 years ago.
Lawyers for the government countered that Elian was too young to read or understand an application for asylum and that his father in Cuba, who demands the boy's return, had the legal right to speak for his son.
The case came as Cuban exiles in Miami protested the decision by Attorney General Janet Reno to send 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez home to Cuba and as Cubans demanded the boy's return in government-sponsored demonstrations on the island.
"Tell me a story," he imagines the boy demanding, "one that has a beginning and a middle and an end where everything is explained".
