Boys Top Baby Gender Preference Poll

Americans Show Slight Preference For Boys If Limited To One Child

(WebMD)  People in the U.S. show a slight baby gender preference for having a boy instead of a girl if they were only able to have one child.

That's according to a new Gallup poll on baby gender preferences.

The telephone poll, conducted in June, included about 1,000 U.S. adults. They were asked: "Suppose you could only have one child. Would you prefer that it be a boy or a girl?"

Here are the participants' baby gender preferences:

Boy: 37%

Girl: 28%

Either/doesn't matter: 26%

Not sure/no opinion: 9%

The "either/doesn't matter" choice wasn't mentioned as an option by the pollsters. But more than a quarter of the participants expressed that view anyway.

Participants also heard a list of possible reasons for their baby gender preference.

Among those who favored boys, the top reasons were that men can relate to boys better than to girls, boys can carry on the family name, and boys are easier to raise.

Among those who favored girls, the leading explanations were that mothers can have closer relationships with daughters, they already had one or more daughters, and that girls are easier to raise than boys.

Men were more likely than women to prefer boys, but women didn't show a similar preference for girls, according to Gallup.

The Gallup baby gender poll began in 1941 and has been conducted occasionally over the last 66 years. Throughout that time, participants have consistently favored boys over girls, given the hypothetical one-child-only limit, though the strength of that preference has waxed and waned over the years.

[michellem99-2009]

I always felt that way. Boys we need them too. You can't dress a boy up. That is for females. Aint she cunnin,I am a Maine born. Cunnin means cute,adorable.Use to have a real heavy downeast accent and lost most of it due moving. Anyway a child's gender should not picked just she may be having a boy. Maybe next time the girl will come into the family. All babies are cunnin.

[erasmus6]

MichelleM99

You are right! GIRLS DO RULE!!

[michellem99-2009]

My name never cause any pain. It was trying to run away hope the abuse would go away. HA It did not I wrot your anwser in my computer note book where I print stuff. I would never take Mums name, I was given Father's. I am 52. I favour girl babies, I could not have children. Girls rule. OH OH the boys might like that. Girl and boy babies are brought up differently. Boys are needed.One should pick the gender as that is choosen by the father thot he don't realise it.

[erasmus6]

Yup, I think that when women get married they should keep their own last name. If they have a daughter, on the birth certificate they should put their own last name.

[oleander8]

"don't names go back the father's line
and DNA testing goes back the mother's line?" [Posted by Hermit22]

That isn't really realistic for tracing your ancestry - if you can't trace a name back - where do you get the DNA from? Besides, who has Oprah's assets?

Men want a son to "carry on the name" - women should want the same. Maybe that would make boys and girls desirable.

[erasmus6]

MichelleM99

Because they took your name away as a foster child, that is the very reason you should take it back. It is your name, it is who you are! You are Barbara Ann M. No one has the right to take away your name.

Of course that is only my opinion. If your name causes you distress then obviously you wouldn't want to do it.

[michellem99-2009]

Boys we took care oare of did not want to use the toilet and their Mums would have to bring extra clothes as their sons would not use it. If a baby was born in their home,than he would not use the toilet and that is the war tone.
It is different for a child who can't walk. Those boys could walk. They were lazy when a new born entered the family unit.

[michellem99-2009]

Girls sit to potty. So do boys as their is a gaurd in place so when first use it to be sure they use it and NOT the the area, then later use the big boy's toilet and and stand to do his business. Alan was 4 and still wearing a nappy. I was 18. I changed him. At 4 ,he should been using toilet not a nappy. His sister younger was potty trained. He was too lazy or his Mum would not train him. I told him to use the toilet and I had no idea if he got trained or not. As the Mum couldn't pay so she have to take of them. I am the one whe helped My then Foster Mum lose the day care license she abused the kids. One mother aksed me and I told her the truth. By license as she lost it. Iwas still in high school a jr, 11 grade.

[michellem99-2009]

I was raised in foster homes. I was moved from home to home. Eash foster Mum would call me by the nane she choose to and at school I had to use the name Dad gave me. I was bared from using Barbara Ann M. in the homes. I was not allowed to see my parents. And I did not know their names. True I didn't.In the homes any things with my birth name was taken from my things. It messed me up to the piont I did not know what name to answer. I was told lies about my people whom I don't know. I was pissed. So I went to court and had it changed. My friend would stopped me from doing so had he known. That was the only time I ever lied to my best friend. Am I sorry YES, I wished I never did it. Michelle I took when I became Catgolic so therefore my legal fisrt name. I have thot about having my name legally changed back to my birth name so family could fine me as that is the name know me as. I don't know if I should.

[tom_gwynn]

Boys are definitely easier. If you have a boy, you only need to worry about one boy. All you folk with daughters... you have to worry about *all* the boys. :)

[hermit22]

MichelleM99, the potty training. "A war zone."
what a chuckle. LOL

someone explained it to me. girls have only one lesson to learn. "sit." boys have twice as many lessons to learn.

[erasmus6]

MichelleM99

What made you want to change your name?
I think I like Barbara better.
Just kidding, both names are very nice.

[hermit22]

don't names go back the father's line
and DNA testing goes back the mother's line?

Oleander8, i don't know if i'm nuts or not, but you might like to check on that DNA tracing. Oprah was traced back through her mother's side of the family....i think,(not possitive) and i wondered why not BOTH sides? she could afford both sides tested....

there are African Jews who are genetically traced back i think to the the Priest Aaron, brother of Moses....(can't remember where they live)it may be traced on the mother's side.

there are records from ADAM to Jesus,both human father's (Joe) side and mother's (Mary) side, but what happened to the 1/2 brothers and sisters after Jesus? the full children of Mary and Joseph. someone in that line might be working in carpentry to this day? or teaching in Harvard. some things only God knows.

[michellem99-2009]

I was raised in foster care and I asked the court to change my full name. So want. It was granted.IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR NAME THAN DO.Am I sorry yes and no. Yes it hurt my dad. So with him I am Barbara. And every one else Michelle M.

[oleander8]

If women didn't change their names when they married, and if their daughters took their name, and their sons took their father's name - women would be just as eager as men to continue their "line". Trying to trace a woman's ancestry with all the name changes is a nightmare. Yet their "line" goes back just as far as their husbands.

[michellem99-2009]

Have you ever trained a boy to use the potty. A war zone. Girls are easir to potty train. I never had kids. We took care of other people's kids when I was a foster child. Girls for some reason want to use the potty over boys.

[hypnotoad72]

Has India stopped 'selective abortion' yet? Or treated their girls as human beings; their own flesh and blood?

Amazing. All these countries that are anti-women, yet their populations are insanely high. Women would normally be responsible for half the blame, but given the misogynist societies where the male gets to do what he wants, I'd say their men should be 75% responsible because they try to make themselves 0% responsible.

Just my two cents, or 0.00154 euros...

[erasmus6]

I had two girls and I am thankful for that everyday! I couldn't even imagine having a boy. Anyone that I knew that had a boy, they always seemed to be BRATS and had nothing but problems with them. If I ever had any doubts I just have to look at my nephew's child, he is the DEMON SEED CHILD! He is evil, and I ain't kidding!

Most times men want boys, obviously, but I find most times the reason that women want boys isn't because THEY really want one it is because their husbands are obsessed with having one.

[aaabee-2009]

Yes, and in other news China will be home to 300 million more men than women by 2020.....


China banned selective abortion of female fetuses in 2005 to try to combat the problem.


The resulting confusion in the social order will become a serious hidden problem influencing social stability, raising the risks of anti-social and violent behaviour.


Now add cloning.....

[alphaa10-2009]

I wouldn't take this poll too seriously.

1. Most couples want a couple of children, usually a boy AND a girl.

2. If the PRC (China) is any example, favoring one gender over the other-- particularly as choosing gender becomes more practical-- guarantees an imbalanced population, genderwise. The result is a weakened/unhealthy population growth. Not to mention, inability to find a mate or raise a family. Another example of Nature correcting imbalances.

3. Raising a girl is not harder than raising a boy. As only parents will discover, later.