Emerging Parental Gender Indifference? Sex Composition of Children and the Third Birth
Emerging Parental Gender Indifference? Sex Composition of Children and the Third Birth
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DOI：
10.1177/000312240206700406
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发表时间：
2002-08
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
M. Pollard;S. Morgan;John Wilson;T. DiPrete;Kammi K. Schmeer;S. Curran;S. Lynch
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作者：
M. Pollard;S. Morgan;John Wilson;T. DiPrete;Kammi K. Schmeer;S. Curran;S. Lynch
在世纪的大部分时间里，在美国，有两个同性孩子的父母比有一个儿子和一个女儿的父母更有可能生第三个孩子，也就是说，前一个孩子的性别对第三个孩子的发生有影响。作者利用多个周期的当前人口调查和全国家庭增长调查，研究了这种影响对几十年来生育行为和意图的影响。社会性别制度的变化预计将削弱最近时期的这种倾向性影响。与这一预期相一致的是，前几个孩子的性别组成对第三胎的影响有所减弱，这表明父母对孩子性别的重视程度下降。
For much of the twentieth century, parents in the United States with two children of the same sex were more likely to have a third child than were parents with one son and one daughter, that is, there was an effect of the sex of previous children on the occurrence of a third birth. Using multiple cycles of the Current Population Survey and National Survey of Family Growth, the authors examine the strength of this effect on both fertility behavior and intentions over multiple decades. Changes in the societal gender system are expected to weaken this pronatalist effect in recent periods. Consistent with this expectation, there has been some attenuation of the effect of sex composition of previous children on the third birth, suggesting declining salience of children's gender for parents.