Why Some American Parents Don't Want Sons

HigherIQ · Feb 18, 2026 · 5m

00:00 — Introduction 00:17 — The Returning Soldier Effect 00:39 — When Humans Get to Choose 00:57 — Wrap Up Sources: - Best quality vs. sex selection – an analysis of embryo selection preferences for patients undergoing preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy over a 10-year period (Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11339188/ - Returning soldier effect (Wikipedia (compiled from MacMahon & Pugh 1954, Kanazawa 2007)): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Returning_soldier_effect - The impacts of profound gender discrimination on the survival…