MrsSpringsteen
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Does anyone actually believe this? Actually to be truthful, one of my parents (maybe even both) seemed to prefer boys Of course maybe it was just me, and had nothing to do w/ me being female
I read a longer article about this last week, maybe I can find it somewhere..
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/hom...?name=fte/parentspreferboys/parentspreferboys
Dirty Little Secret: Parents Prefer Boys
It's a dirty little secret that you'll want to hide from your daughters: Boys hold their parents' marriages together, while girls break them up.
That's the word from two leading economists at the University of Rochester and the University of California, Los Angeles who maintain that in the United States the parents of a girl are nearly 5 percent more likely to divorce than the parents of a boy, reports Slate magazine. The more daughters a couple has, the greater the chance of a marital split. For example, the parents of three girls are almost 10 percent more likely to divorce than the parents of three boys.
And the risk of divorce climbs even higher in other countries, including Mexico, Colombia, and Kenya. In Vietnam, the chance of divorce for parents of daughters is a surprisingly high 25 percent.
The big question is WHY? Economists Gordon Dahl of Rochester and Enrico Moretti of UCLA have been positing theories, and it pretty much comes down to these two, they told Slate:
Theory No. 1: Sons improve the quality of married life, which suggests that having a son is a blessing.
Theory No. 2: Sons exacerbate the pain of divorce, which suggests that having a son is a curse--or at least would be if the parents split up.
And here's the real shocker: Dahl and Moretti insist that American parents have a strong preference for sons over daughters. This is the evidence they offer:
Mothers of daughters who are divorced are far less likely to remarry than divorced mothers of sons, suggesting that daughters are a liability.
Parents who have only girls are more likely than parents who have only boys to try yet again for a child of the opposite gender.
When an unmarried couple is expecting a baby, they are more likely to get married if the ultrasound shows that the child is a boy.
I read a longer article about this last week, maybe I can find it somewhere..
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/hom...?name=fte/parentspreferboys/parentspreferboys
Dirty Little Secret: Parents Prefer Boys
It's a dirty little secret that you'll want to hide from your daughters: Boys hold their parents' marriages together, while girls break them up.
That's the word from two leading economists at the University of Rochester and the University of California, Los Angeles who maintain that in the United States the parents of a girl are nearly 5 percent more likely to divorce than the parents of a boy, reports Slate magazine. The more daughters a couple has, the greater the chance of a marital split. For example, the parents of three girls are almost 10 percent more likely to divorce than the parents of three boys.
And the risk of divorce climbs even higher in other countries, including Mexico, Colombia, and Kenya. In Vietnam, the chance of divorce for parents of daughters is a surprisingly high 25 percent.
The big question is WHY? Economists Gordon Dahl of Rochester and Enrico Moretti of UCLA have been positing theories, and it pretty much comes down to these two, they told Slate:
Theory No. 1: Sons improve the quality of married life, which suggests that having a son is a blessing.
Theory No. 2: Sons exacerbate the pain of divorce, which suggests that having a son is a curse--or at least would be if the parents split up.
And here's the real shocker: Dahl and Moretti insist that American parents have a strong preference for sons over daughters. This is the evidence they offer:
Mothers of daughters who are divorced are far less likely to remarry than divorced mothers of sons, suggesting that daughters are a liability.
Parents who have only girls are more likely than parents who have only boys to try yet again for a child of the opposite gender.
When an unmarried couple is expecting a baby, they are more likely to get married if the ultrasound shows that the child is a boy.