Thinking about binomial families reminded me of some research I read about: Unmarried mothers are less likely to form a permanent (or even a temporary cohabiting) relationship with the child’s father if the child is a girl
This set me to wondering if the probability of divorce is higher for families which do not include a son
I am not suggesting that fathers value daughters less than sons (though they may). Both parents might consider that a girl suffers less from the loss of a father in the house
The ONS website provides statistics of the ages of children of divorcing couples, but nothing on their sex, as far as I can see
I have had no success finding anything via Google, except a new appreciation of the reason why people now prefer the term gender to sex
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