Americans still prefer sons.When the Gallup Poll Gallup Poll Noun a sampling of the views of a representative cross section of the population, usually used to forecast voting [after G H Gallup, statistician] Gallup poll n → Tuesday Tuesday: see week. Briefing recently asked Americans whether they would prefer a boy or a girl if they could have only one child, 38 percent say they would prefer a boy, 28 percent say a girl, and 27 percent say it would make no difference. A plurality The opinion of an appellate court in which more justices join than in any concurring opinion. The excess of votes cast for one candidate over those votes cast for any other candidate. Appellate panels are made up of three or more justices. of men prefer sons. In the most recent poll, 45 percent of American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of males say they would prefer to have a boy, compared with just 19 percent who would want their only child to be a girl, and 29 percent who say it wouldn't would·n't Contraction of would not. wouldn't would not wouldn't would matter. Women, however, are more evenly divided in their choices between a son and a daughter. Thirty-six percent prefer to have a girl, 32 percent would want to have a boy, and 26 percent say either sex would be fine. There is no difference between white and nonwhite non·white n. A person who is not white. non  white adj. Americans'
preferences of their child's sex.
Younger people are more likely to yearn for sons than those in other age groups. Nearly half of all Americans (48 percent) between the ages of 18 and 29 say they would prefer to have a son, while 29 percent prefer a girl and 18 percent say it does not matter. Americans between the ages of 30 and 49 also show a preference for boys (41 percent) over girls (29 percent), but with a higher percentage not expressing a preference (25 percent). Those between the ages of 50 and 64 are evenly divided across the three options (boy, girl, or either) while a majority of those over age 65 say the sex of the child does not matter to them. --reprinted with permission from the Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing, September, 2003 |
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