Addressing skewed sex ratio at birth in China: practices and challenges

Imbalanced Sex Ratio at Birth and Comprehensive Intervention in China

Interventions to Balance Sex Ratio at Birth in Rural China

Almost all parents have preference to the number and sex of children, somebody like boy more and somebody like girl more. The ideal sex composition of children to most couples in China is to have one boy and one girl (Zheng, 2004), which was also true in China for the last two thousand years. If there were no limit to number of children, and if a couple had very strong sex preference of childre...

Sex ratio at birth and latitude.

Mother's occupation and sex ratio at birth

BACKGROUND Many women are working outside of the home, occupying a multitude of jobs with varying degrees of responsibilities and levels of psychological stress. We investigated whether different job types in women are associated with child sex at birth, with the hypothesis that women in job types, which are categorized as "high psychological stress" jobs, would be more likely to give birth to ...

Placenta praevia and sex ratio at birth.

The ratio of male to female sex among infants born to 391 women with and 114 079 without placenta praevia was analysed by parity. In the women without placenta praevia the sex ratio decreased significantly with increasing parity, whereas in the women with placenta praevia it increased. Overall, the sex ratio was increased among the women with placenta praevia, particularly multiparas. An increa...