ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2019
Adoption: A Strategy to Fulfill Sex Preferences of U.S. Parents.
Article in Journal of marriage and the family, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Racial Family Configurations and Inequalities in Private School Enrollment Among Adopted Children.Journal of family issues · 2022Article
- Preferences for a mixed-sex composition of offspring: A multigenerational approach.Population studies · 2022Article
- Adoption Status and Parental Investments: A Within-sibling Approach.Journal of child and family studies · 2021Article
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objectiveThis article examines adoption as a strategy used by parents to fulfill their preference for a specific sex composition among their children in the United States.
backgroundEvidence from the United States suggests that parents with children of the same sex are more likely to continue childbearing, as parents generally desire at least one girl and one boy. What is unknown, however, is whether parents use adoption to fulfill this same preference.
methodUsing data from the 2016 American Community Survey (n=1,107,800 children), the authors test the relationships among the sex composition of preceding siblings, child sex, and adoption status.
resultsChildren who had same-sex preceding siblings were more likely to be adopted, as opposed to biologically related to their parents, than children who had mixed-sex preceding siblings. Further, adopted children were more likely to be of the missing sex (i.e., adopted girls were more likely than were adopted boys to have only preceding brothers).
conclusionThese findings suggest a need to consider parental sex preferences and child sex in studies on adoption decisions. Further, adoption provides one mechanism parents can use to achieve a balanced sex composition among their children.
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