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61:. Additionally, researchers have found that increasing levels of "gender indifference" and decreasing levels of son preference, for example as documented in Taiwan since 1990, can be correlated to maternal educational levels. Son preference in Asian-immigrant households in the United States is higher amongst couples from the same country and higher in mixed-origin marriages where the male partner is the immigrant. 42:. Parents will continue having children until they have produced the desired number of sons; there is no equivalent behavior in respect to daughters. Families with sons have been shown to have increased levels of "marital stability and marital satisfaction," and the presence of sons may increase 53:
of Nigeria: "The status of a man is assessed in part by his number of sons. A man with many sons is viewed as a wealthy or an accomplished man." Igbo men that die without fathering sons are seen as having been "unaccomplished or a misfit" and are not given ceremonial second burials.
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is the ancient and cross-cultural human preference for male (rather than female) offspring. Son preference has been demonstrated across all social classes, from "succession laws in royal families to land inheritance in peasant families." Sons are considered both a
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Son preference is culturally mediated and expression of it may change with circumstances. For example, demonstrations of son preference declined in "subsequent generations" of
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Household socioeconomic status and sexual behaviour among Nigerian female youth, UC Isiugo-Abanihe, KA Oyediran - African Population Studies, 2004 - bioline.org.br -
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involvement in child-rearing. In the 21st century, son preference has been broadly documented in South and East Asia, but is also observable in Western countries.
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or son preference is sometimes expressed by higher levels of household investment in offspring of preferred gender.
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An example of son preference is demonstrated by the traditions of the
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Index

status symbol
competitive advantage
birth rates
population growth
paternal
Igbo people
Turkish immigrants to Germany
sex selection
gender disappointment
Daughter preference
Female infanticide
Son preference in China
Patrilineality
Patronymic
Male heir
Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup
Human reproductive ecology


"Son preference and health disparities in developing countries"
doi
10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101036
ISSN
2352-8273
PMC
8804262
PMID
35128024
"Sociobiology, Status, and Parental Investment in Sons and Daughters: Testing the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis"
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