Christening and Naming ceremonies.
"When a baby is born, the first thing people tend to ask about is the child’s gender. It’s not necessarily some socially constructed norm where we have to ask because we think gender is the most important thing about a baby - it is simply because there is nothing else to ask. Children aged over 3 or 4 have interests. They like farm animals, reading books, climbing trees or listening to music. But babies? Well, for all of their adorable aspects, they can’t yet voice their own interests - and even if they could, their interests probably wouldn’t expand past a plastic teether,...