A new cheap, widespread technology emerges that allows parents to very easily choose the sex of their children around the time of conception.
In western nations, you predict this results in more _____ babies being born
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Some recent data suggests Americans presently might have a preference for daughters.
nytimes.com/2018/03/05/ups
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real talk, on a long enough timescale it would wind up with everyone being futas
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I wonder what the results would be if you reframed it to what YOU would choose. I bet it would be 70/30 in favor of females. Big dissonance
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I can’t say, but one thing I would predict would be an increase in divorces due to couples fighting over the sex of the children.
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Considering how many times I've seen a woman declare she's going to get an abortion just because the child is male, and I've never seen the reverse...
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This article (slate.com/news-and-polit) - from 2004 - also notes that parents of girls are slightly more likely to divorce, to bring in that recent twitter trending topic.
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