We Welcome Our Sons and Daughters

America's sons and daughters.

Hilary Valdez, MS, is a Survivor Outreach Services Coordinator for the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Japan and provides services that support the Families of Fallen Soldiers. He conducts support groups and life skills training to the community and leadership. My reassignment to the desolate, harsh environment of the Mojave Desert came as quite a shock. Leaving my family to join sturdy, hard core Marines ...

Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behaviour

The prevalence of son preference and its implications for family behaviour in developing countries have received a great deal of scholarly attention, but child-gender bias is believed to be empirically unimportant in wealthy, non-traditional societies. Studies by sociologists and psychologists during the past 30 years, however, have documented consistent discrepancies between the behaviour of p...

Preliminary Comments welcome Investments in Sons and Daughters: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

We test for differences in parental investment in sons and daughters by estimating the effect of child gender on household expenditures. We focus on differences in expenditures on family public goods such as housing and durable goods. Using Consumer Expenditure Survey data from 1995 to 1998, we find that married-couple families with one son spend significantly more on several categories of hous...

Father absence and gendered traits in sons and daughters

Research has previously found a number of apparently contradictory patterns in the relationship between 'father absence' (having a non-resident father during childhood) and the expression of gender roles, as well as other sexually dimorphic traits such as aggression. In the current study we measured a battery of sexually differentiated traits in relation to family background. 133 men and 558 wo...

DEPARTMENT OF CHILD STUDIES Daughters , Sons , and Homosexual Parents