New Poll: More Americans Prefer Baby Boys to Baby Girls

Reason ^ | June 24, 2011 | Ronald Bailey

[eeriegeno]

When we, as a society, have to question the value of a girl baby vs. a boy baby (or any baby or fetus), we have lost our way.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I wonder if the preference for boys plays a part in abortion decisions here, as it does in China and India.

[DustyMoment]

LiveScience is reporting a new Gallup Poll which finds: If they were only allowed to have one child, more Americans would prefer it be a boy rather than a girl, . . . .

More's the pity and more proof of the dumbing down of Americans. Without girls (God bless'em!), there won't BE boys!!!



whaddya gotta do with these morons - draw'em a freakin' picture!??)

[DustyMoment]

LiveScience is reporting a new Gallup Poll which finds: If they were only allowed to have one child, more Americans would prefer it be a boy rather than a girl, . . . .

More's the pity and more proof of the dumbing down of Americans. Without girls (God bless'em!), there won't BE boys!!!



(whaddya gotta do with these morons - draw'em a freakin' picture!??)

[Politicalmom]

I had a boy first. I cried with joy every time the next three ultrasounds showed girls.

Needless to say my son is “challenging”. :)

[Gator113]

I guess I’m in the minority.

I wanted a girl first and a boy for our second.

I got my wishes and was blessed with the two best children that a dad could ever have the privilege to raise.

If I had it to do all over again, I would have gone for 6 children.

I was the oldest of 3 boys and 3 girls and I loved growing up in a large, yet poor family.

Mostly, I just wanted our children to be born healthy... thank God they were.

[Tanniker Smith]

And all those baby boys can grow up and move to New York now and marry each other.

sorry ... don't mind me ... I live here ...

[Mygirlsmom]

7 girls??? That is Awesome!

I'm sure you often heard the question

"so.....are you going to try for a boy?"

We have three fabulous daughters, and we heard it a lot! Our reply was always the same - "before we know it there will be boys all over the place. We're going to let the girls choose our sons."

Well, it looks like our oldest has "chosen" and very well for that matter. It's not official, but as soon as it is, I plan on sending out "It's a Boy!" announcements, LOL

[Gator113]

Congratulations!

We have 8 grandchildren. It just keeps getting better and better.

[RichInOC]

“I’ll take either one, as long as they’re Extra Crispy.”

[swatbuznik]

I wanted a boy, but got four wonderful girls! I could go for four more! As my grandmother said to me, “God gave you girls because he already saw that there was enough man in the house.”

[TheDingoAteMyBaby]

“We’re going to let the girls choose our sons.” That’s a neat way of putting it!

[kelly4c]

I only have one daughter, and one grandson. But I gotta say, I love little boys, and if polled I would pick a boy too. Would never tell my daughter this though:)

There’s something about them that brings out my maternal instincts just a little more. It is what it is.

[Vigilanteman]

Wow! If you were a dairy bull, you'd be worth a lot of money.

My brother and I have six duaghters between us, all blue ribbon heifers, both beauty and brains. I made that remark to him in front of our wives. His turns to mine and said "And I suppose we had nothing to do with it!"

[srmorton]

I found out that I was pregnant with twins in 1980 when they would not make predictions as to the sex from what was then the very new technology of ultrasound. I begged the radiologist to tell me that they were not both boys because I had no idea what I would do if they were. I have one sister and four nieces so boys were (and still are) a bit of a mystery to me. All he would say is that there was a good chance there was at least one boy - although he knew then that they were both girls.

Less than two months later, my two daughters were born six weeks early by C-section. They were beautiful babies and are now two gorgeous 30 year old young women - if I do say so myself. Although I would have been glad to welcome one or even two boys, my girls were and still are the great joys of my life (one is actually named Joy). My only regret is that (so far) I have no grandchildren, but I am not giving up on that yet!

[Island Girl]

I have two girfriends at church. One had three boys and the other three girls. They both got pregnant and guess what - Boy Mom had another boy and Girl Mom had another girl. I thought, why not just swap?

I had a boy first and then the girl. Love them both to death, even though they’re all big and used. Better get some grandbabies soon...

[chris_bdba]

What do you mean thrid world? It happens here too especially when they already have one or two of one sex and want the other.....

[ops33]

I agree with you. Our son was born during the early days of ultra sound. When my wife had a routine ultra sound the doctor asked if we wanted to know the sex of our child. We both told him not to bother, that we would take the baby anyway God made him.

[surrey]

I have 4 grandsons and 3 grand daughters and those boys know how to play me. In a good way.