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)
“Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.”
—Basil Hume (b. 1923)
“Nothing, neither acceptance nor prohibition, will induce a child to stop swearing overnight. Teach your child respect for himself and others, that profanity can hurt, offend, and disgust, and you’ll be doing the best you can...And save your parental giggling over mispronounced curses for after the children’s bedtime.”
—Jean Callahan (20th century)