Do Parents Have Gender Preferences?

03/22/2018

Do Parents Have Gender Preferences?

There are two ways to get enough; one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G.K. Chesterton

A controversial article in the New York Times, called "Americans Might No Longer Prefer Sons Over Daughters," explores the idea of gender preference among parents. "Around the world, parents have typically preferred to have sons more than daughters, and American parents have been no different," writes the article’s author, Claire Cain Miller. "But there are signs that’s changing. It may be because there's less bias against girls, and possibly more bias against boys.

Gallup surveyed Americans 10 times from 1941 to 2011, and their answers remained virtually unchanged: If they could have one child, 40 percent would prefer a boy and 28 percent a girl (the rest showed no preference).

A new study, however, measured that preference in a different way. While having a daughter versus a son used to make American parents more likely to keep having children, theoretically to try for a son, now the opposite is true: Having a daughter makes it less likely that they keep having children."

Source: "Americans Might No Longer Prefer Sons Over Daughters" by Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, March 5, 2018

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