"Wanting to have sons is bad" - BBC - Kotaku In Action 2

"Wanting to have sons is bad" - BBC (archive.ph)

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– BandageBandolier 13 points 2 years ago +13 / -0

Nearly 80% of those surveyed said they wanted at least one son in their lifetime, according to the latest figures from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), the most comprehensive household survey of Indian society by the government. This preference for sons over daughters - described as "son preference"

Oh fuck off, that's not even a preference, that's just wanting a son.

But the data suggests that the historical preference for boys remains. Over 15% people - 16% men and 14% women - told the surveyors that they wanted more sons than daughters.

That's the actual preference amount, that you buried towards the end of the article.

The NFHS-5 survey, done between 2019 and 2021, shows improvement in the sex ratio from previous years - for the first time, it says, there are more females than males in India.

And yet you're still fucking complaining. Jesus, is "sex ratio" like "diversity" now, is the ideal 0% of a certain someone?

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– reidj 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

But having more females than males born isn't natural. Because men have a tendency to die young, the ratio slightly favors boys.

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– when_we_win_remember 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

More males being born is natural. I'm not sure you nailed the reason, though. To account for the early death rate of men in a hunter-gatherer state, the ratio would have to be WAY higher than 1.03-1.06. I think the mechanism is a slight increase in viability of male fetuses vs female?

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