Preference For Sex of Child
In many cultures, male offspring are desired in order to inherit property, carry on family name, to provide support for parents in old age.
A 2009 study at the University of Ulster found that having sisters, as compared to brothers, can enhance the quality of life of an adult.
Evidence suggests couples in the United Kingdom tend to pick sons and daughters in roughly even numbers.
Read more about this topic: Sex Selection
Famous quotes containing the words preference for, preference and/or child:
“Among all the world’s races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“It is impossible for us to love anything without some respect to ourselves; and we only consult our own inclination and our own pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves. And yet this preference is the only thing that can render friendship perfect and sincere.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)