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  • it's their money...

    If somebody's husband wants to buy his wife a piece of jewelry for giving birth, I don't care. Knock yourselves out.

    What's problematic is the marketing by jewelry companies of specific kinds of (expensive) jewelry as appropriate "push presents."

    Will this become like the (once only for royalty, then the very wealthy, now nearly ubiquitous) trend of buying diamond engagement rings? And the assumption that your fiance is less of a man if he doesn't plunk down two months salary on a rock?