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Daughters and divorce – Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons | Science & technology – The Economist
But the difference only emerges when the children are teenagers
DAUGHTERS HAVE long been linked with divorce. Several studies conducted in America since the 1980s provide strong evidence that a couples first-born being a girl increases the likelihood of their subsequently splitting up. At the time, the researchers involved speculated that this was an expression of son preference, a phenomenon which, in its most extreme form, manifests itself as the selective abortion or infanticide of female offspring.
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