[laurav]

I am trying to figure out the hidden correlation-is-not-causation element here. Any ideas?

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[LittleLassieDog]

I wonder if the same is true for gay partners, although it might be different with them, since they have to adopt to get children.

[MontanaBeth]

This is bizarre, I can't even begin to understand their reasoning and to be honest I'm glad of that fact. It's a load of c**P.

[rdb3]

I've sired no children yet, but when I do, I pray to God above not to have daughters.

But if He decides to give daughters to me, I guess I'll just have to keep trying until rdb4 arrives. If there's an rdb5, that'll be his business...

[DeFault User]

Perhaps mothers feel more comfortable raising a girl alone than a boy.

[Mo1]

Los Angeles who maintain that in the United States the parents of a girl are nearly 5 percent more likely to divorce than the parents of a boy, reports Slate magazine. The more daughters a couple has, the greater the chance of a marital split. For example, the parents of three girls are almost 10 percent more likely to divorce than the parents of three boys.

My grandparents had 8 girls and they never divorced .. but then again, Papa did died first

Hmmmm .. I have all girls, I guess my marriage is DOOMED

[Consort]

Children are hereditary. If your parents didn't have any, chances are good that you won't either.

[Pete]

parents of a girl are nearly 5 percent more likely to divorce than the parents of a boy

What is the margin of error in the study?

Also, I find it hard to believe that the gender of the children is a material factor given other factors such as religious practice, economic situation, prior beliefs about divorce, etc.

BTW, I have four daughters and my wife and I are doing just fine, thank you.

[Lloyd227]

 I just could not resist posting these.........

  10 Simple Rules for dating my daughter

  Rule One

If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a pizza, because you're sure not picking anything up.

  Rule Two

You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

  Rule Three

I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, In  order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

  Rule Four

I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate: when it comes to sex with my daughter, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

  Rule Five

In order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early."

  Rule Six

I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

  Rule Seven

As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

  Rule Eight

The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there are no parents, policemen, or nuns within eyesight. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka zipped up to her throat. Movies  with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies that feature chainsaws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

  Rule Nine

Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a pot-bellied, balding, middle-aged, dim-witted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am like the all-knowing God of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

  Rule Ten

Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy outside of Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit your car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.

 

 

[hispanarepublicana]

I can't imagine what the teenage years would've been like for us if he'd been a girl........Oh yeah, that's right...I WAS a teenage girl once! Thank GOD he was a boy.

[bmwcyle]

Ten fingers and ten toes are my favorite.

[Physicist]

I believe it. I have two daughters and a son, and another daughter on the way.

In my experience, sisters are constantly after each other. Brothers are, too, but with brothers it's more physical, while with girls it's more emotional. My girls are constantly trying to gain emotional advantage over each other, and over their mother. Even their Barbie dolls snipe at each other. My son merely tears up the house, strives to create the worst possible mess, and seeks to put himself into the worst danger, things that are simple to deal with by comparison.

I can certainly believe that any relationship that was strained to begin with could be stressed to the breaking point by a sufficient number of girls.

[showme_the_Glory]

Married 30 years with 3 boys?

[aruanan]

Parents who have only girls are more likely than parents who have only boys to try yet again for a child of the opposite gender.

My dad told me that he's noticed over the years that there were a lot more boy only-child families than girl only-child families.

[oprahstheantichrist]

Unfortunately, it seems to be human nature, and more specifically the male ego. Look at the diverse cultures of the world, particularly the ones that practice female infanticide (China, India come to mind). They have little in common, but male children are prized, females are at best, tolerated, at worst, done away with.

Something deep in a man wants a mini-me, perhaps to avert his own mortality. Anne Bolyne was discarded by Henry VIII immediately after her son was born dead. Princess Diana's mother was sent by her husband to a myriad of fertility clinics in order to find out "why she kept having girls." She finally did produce one, but by then the marriage was doomed. You can find many more examples throughout history.

Ah, but as a result of medical science, we now know that it's the father's seed that determines the gender of a baby. We're enlightened, and now a woman will no longer be "blamed" for "not producing a male." It appears by this study though, that a man's emotions cannot easily be reasoned with, and a frustration, albiet perhaps small, still exists in a father that has sired only girls.

It's not all men of course, but clearly some will still unconciously or subconciously blame the wife and hence, the slight difference in divorce stats.

My title page says "Jesus was the first feminist," and by that I mean that one of the most significant changes He made in the culture that would evolve into ours today, is that he was the first to value women as much as men, as illustrated by His discourse with the woman at the well, and throughout the book of Luke in particular. Jesus' teachings against divorce are offensive to some, but prior to that Mosaic Law allowed a man to just write a wife a bill of divorce and send her on her way, but this, Jesus said, was only tolerated (by God) because of "the hardness of your hearts," a reference, I believe, to human nature, the male ego and a tendancy by some to discard a woman if he simply got tired of her.

Most of His teachings command resistance to human selfishness, and to behave in ways which don't come naturally to us. Forgiveness is another example. To some men, this includes the cherishing of their daughters as much as their sons.

[Monti Cello]

Does anyone know the Democrat Party position on a woman's right to choose to abort girls alone?

[Ciexyz]

I know of one case where the couple split up after raising two daughters, and the man remarried, and is now happy with a younger wife and a new baby son. This is a case where raising a boy will probably keep them together.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Chickenhawks like full bath houses.

Playing 'little mommy' incest family secrets are getting more difficult to keep quiet.

Like Mo'ham' said, 'There are very few women in his paradise because women complain so much.' At least muslims' "honor killings" keep those shameful scurges of the earth from life and paradise.

Social Security wealth transfer schemes have yet to enhance the socialist paradise of VN among others.

[bethelgrad]

When my wife and I found out we were having our first child, I wanted a daughter. Two boys later, I wouldn't want it any other way. Overall I would be happy with either gender, however, I don't think I could handle dealing with "girl issues" during those adolescent years.

[GovernmentShrinker]

One cause is that most women are unprepared to support themselves and their children alone. This causes the men's gender preference to govern both the men's and women's choices re getting/staying married.

Another factor is undoubtedly that women know that boys are generally harder to raise and have poorer outcomes if there's no father present. As a result, many women may consciously decide to marry or stay married to men whom they would otherwise not marry or divorce, because they have a boy to raise.