OBJECTIVE To analyze desire for sons/daughters among ladies of Peshawar, Pakistan, with a view to rule out son preference and to study impact of various demographic characteristics on the subject. METHODS Cross-sectional descriptive study conducted at Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar, from August 2015 - January 2016; sampling technique was random/probability/non-purposive. Self-designed q...

South Korea is the first country to shift from strong son preference preferring daughters. This paper examines factors associated with daughter preference, using data 2012 General Social Survey, a nationally-representative survey of 1,379 people. The outcome variable was derived question, 'If you were have one child, which would like - son, daughter, or no preference?' Multinomial logistic regr...

Low uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine calls for innovative approaches. Offering the vaccine in settings outside the traditional medical home, such as schools and pharmacies, could increase use. We sought to characterize the acceptability of HPV vaccine delivery in these alternative settings using a national (US) sample of parents of adolescent males ages 11-17 y (n = 506) and their s...

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Abstract Research on the intergenerational inheritance of occupational attainment has been restricted to sons for a long time. This is remarkable, given ubiquity historical settings where female labor force participation was high. study civil marriage certificates in nineteenth-century West Flanders investigates comprehensive sample covering economic activities not only fathers and but also mot...

Helle et al. (1) showed that producing and raising sons reduced the longevity of preindustrial Sami women, whereas daughters tended to have the opposite effect. They suggested that the life-shortening effect of sons could be attributed to higher endocrinological or physiological costs of producing sons compared with those of producing daughters, and that the life-elongating effect of raising da...