article_snippet.sent: For a long time Jennifer Pagonis struggled with depression and angst until meeting young intersex adults who've embraced their differences.
article_snippet.sent: Jennifer Pagonis advice for parents with intersex infants? '
article_snippet.sent: Take parents with intersex infants home and love parents with intersex infants ... just the way parents with intersex infants are.'
article_snippet.sent: The complete form of the syndrome occurs in as many as 1 in 20,000 live births.
article_snippet.sent: Idea exchange: It's estimated that at least 1 in 5,000 U.S. babies are born each year with intersex conditions .
article_snippet.sent: Efforts in the medical sphere also are underway to change the way intersex children are treated. '
article_snippet.sent: the way intersex children are treated, is probably not the best way to go about things,' said Dr. Earl Cheng, who runs the two-year-old sex development disorders program at Chicago's Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital.
article_snippet.sent: It's estimated that at least 1 in 5,000 U.S. babies are born each year with intersex conditions.