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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More often it is the reverse; keep having kids until the boy is born. If you can afford it, why not?  [/quote]

I disagree. I think here, it is all about getting the girl. [/quote]

Most people and men want a boy. To carry on the family name. [/quote]

This is highly variable by culture and education. In the US, it's basically 50/50 for gender preference which is why things like sex selective IVF aren't generally that problematic and don't have the same outcomes you would see in places with massive preference for boys. Last article I read on this said that there was a [i]slight[/i] preference for girls here, but statistically insignificant; like 52 vs 48% preference for girls. Anecdotally, that holds true in my world. The study I read posited that the more egalitarian a society was the more even the gender preference. If you are in a very patriarchal society, males care about stuff like, "carrying on the family name" more and [b]women judge their worth by ability to produce boys for their families[/b]. Where gender and  opportunity differences are less ingrained (I believe they looked at places like Scandinavia) they did not find an overwhelming sex preference in either direction. [/quote]
Women, we do not have control over this! We provide an X every time. So, for starters, it's on your man's swimmers to give you a Y. And also, can we all stop judging each other for something nobody has control over?![/quote]

This is true, but I think this is also where education factors in. [/quote]

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