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)
“There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“And the child not caring to whom he climbs his prayer
Shall drown in a grief as deep as his made grave,
And mark the dark eyed wave, through the eyes of sleep,
Dragging him up the stairs to one who lies dead.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)