Parental Favoritism toward Daughters
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The Trivers–Willard hypothesis of parental investment No effect in the contemporary United States
The Trivers–Willard hypothesis (TWH) predicts that parents will bias their sex ratio toward sons when in good condition and toward daughters when in poor condition. Many human studies have tested the related hypothesis that parents’ bias allocation of resources to existing sons and daughters according to the same principle. The present study used time diary and self-report data from the parents...
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