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[quote=Anonymous]As a PP said, girls are the preferred sex in the United States. (Except perhaps among some immigrant groups from countries with a strong preference for male children). It makes me sad for my 3 boys that so many women are dissatisfied with their sons and say disparaging things about boys -- to their faces no less. It is no less sexist to prefer to have daughters than it would be to prefer to have sons. Your children are unique human beings with so much more to them than their biological sex(es). I really hope that as time goes on women will get over this silly obsession with having daughters and learn to appreciate their children for who they are.

That having been said, I do think there is something to the idea that people want a child of their own sex. I know a few different families who have three daughters and the dads are always getting rude comments about "chick flicks" and dolls and such. Whereas for us, people feel sorry (needlessly) for *me* not my husband.  
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