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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsParents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons
The EconomistDaughters have long been linked with divorce. Several studies conducted in America since the 1980s provide strong evidence that a couples first-born being a girl increases the likelihood of their subsequently splitting up. At the time, the researchers involved speculated that this was an expression of son preference, a phenomenon which, in its most extreme form, manifests itself as the selective abortion or infanticide of female offspring.
Work published in the Economic Journal, however, debunks that particular idea. In Daughters and Divorce, Jan Kabatek of the University of Melbourne and David Ribar of Georgia State University, in Atlanta, confirm that having a female first-born does indeed increase the risk of that childs parents divorcing, in both America and the Netherlands. But, unlike previous work, their study also looked at the effect of the girls age. It found that daughter-divorce risk emerges only in a first-born girls teenage years (see chart). Before they reach the age of 12, daughters are no more linked to couples splitting up than sons are. If fathers were really more likely to take off because they preferred sons, surely they wouldnt wait 13 years to do so, reasons Dr Kabatek. Instead, he argues, the fact that the risk is so age-specific requires a different explanation, namely that parents quarrel more over the upbringing of teenage daughters than of teenage sons.
Work published in the Economic Journal, however, debunks that particular idea. In Daughters and Divorce, Jan Kabatek of the University of Melbourne and David Ribar of Georgia State University, in Atlanta, confirm that having a female first-born does indeed increase the risk of that childs parents divorcing, in both America and the Netherlands. But, unlike previous work, their study also looked at the effect of the girls age. It found that daughter-divorce risk emerges only in a first-born girls teenage years (see chart). Before they reach the age of 12, daughters are no more linked to couples splitting up than sons are. If fathers were really more likely to take off because they preferred sons, surely they wouldnt wait 13 years to do so, reasons Dr Kabatek. Instead, he argues, the fact that the risk is so age-specific requires a different explanation, namely that parents quarrel more over the upbringing of teenage daughters than of teenage sons.
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Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons (Original Post)
brooklynite
Feb 2021
OP
I thinks it's because men feel they need to stick around to better influence the upbringing of their
Dream Girl
Feb 2021
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I can think of multiple possible different explanations for this phenomenon ...
mr_lebowski
Feb 2021
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Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)1. I thinks it's because men feel they need to stick around to better influence the upbringing of their
Sons. With a teen age girls they would feel less needed to be a male role model.
VA_Jill
(9,983 posts)2. I don't know about that
My late ex treated our daughter horribly when she was a teenager. They had awful, frequent, and loud arguments. She knew which of his buttons to push and he took the bait every time and then turned around and was really mean. I used to ask him who was the adult here. I should have left him right then but there were two boys slightly older still at home.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)3. I can think of multiple possible different explanations for this phenomenon ...
I'm sure the reason(s) vary on a case-by-case basis.