Boys Better Than Girls?

Filed in archive Baby Gear on October 31, 2007

What guy doesn't want another little guy to carry on the family name? Face it. Most men do. It seems men still dominate the world, even when they are just little tikes in the cradle, according to this poll published by WebMd.com:

People in the U.S. show a slight baby gender preference for having a boy instead of a girl if they were only able to have one child.

That's according to a new Gallup poll on baby gender preferences.

The telephone poll, conducted in June, included about 1,000 U.S. adults. They were asked: "Suppose you could only have one child. Would you prefer that it be a boy or a girl?"

Here are the participants' baby gender preferences:

Boy: 37%
Girl: 28%
Either/doesn't matter: 26%
Not sure/no opinion: 9%