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为什么父亲想要男孩而母亲喜欢女孩?

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That tired truism about wanting only a healthy baby and not caring about gender? Puh-leeze. Women want daughters, and men crave sons, finds research in the journal Open Anthropology.

The results surprised even the researchers, from Queens University in Ontario, Canada, whod surveyed more than 2,000 students, staff and faculty at the college about gender preference in offspring. Theyd assumed that respondents would show little or no preference, but they found thatno matter how they worded the questionthere was asignificant offspring gender preferencealong gender lines.

Respondents answered the following questions:

1. What gender would you prefer your firstborn child to be (or did you hope for if you already have a child)?

2. If you were to have (or do have) more than one child, would you prefer the majority to be male or female?

3. If you were to have only one child, what gender would you prefer it to be?

Today, offspring gender preference conflicts with the ongoing mission in many nations, especially in Western Europe and North America, to pursue social and political agendas aimed at eliminating all discrimination on the basis of gender,” write the authors.

And yet, it persists. What gives?

Mens preference for sons is pretty easy to explain in terms of evolution. Males have a greater chance of perpetuating the family genes by fathering far more children than a woman could ever bear. Womens preference for daughters is more nuanced. Maybe its a maternal desire to have a shared experience of pregnancy, or maybe women are subscribing to visions of perceived mom-daughter emotional bonds. Call it alegacy drive,” say the authors, and consider that modern women are so infused with pride over their social and financial empowerment that they want to share the good life with their girls. “There is currently a tendency in North American society to place a high degree of emphasis on realizing ones ownsuccessthrough the success of ones children,” write the authors. “The present data suggest that this opportunity for legacy is envisioned for males generally through sons, but for females generally through daughters.”

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