A General Theory of Gender Preferences For Children
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Cultural variation in parental preference for children of a particular gender remains a matter of great practical and theoretical concern, particularly for understanding nonWestern countries. The gender preference for children has received attention from two different theoretical frameworks that seem to have little contact with each other. One is the gender discrimination approach and the other is the parental investment approaches
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تاریخ انتشار 2013