05.09.08

Some Asian Americans Choose Sons After Birth of Daughters

Posted in Culture at 3:08 pm by william_lee_intern

A new analysis of the Census shows that U.S. born children with Asian parents increases the chances of having a baby boy if they already have a girl or two.

The findings ‘’suggest that in a sub-population with a traditional son preference, the technologies are being used to generate male births when preceding births are female, says co-authors Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund that appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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