Are the majority of only children girls?

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That is, is it more likely for families to have more than one child if the firstborn is a boy?

Thus is purely anecdotal- most of the only children I know are girls or women. Just wondering if there is anything in this.

I have no agenda to this post- just hiding in a coffee shop from my kids on the last day of Aussie school holidays. All I see walking past are families with one girl child!

nope - I know lots of only children who are boys

Off the top of my head the families I know who have only one child are all boys

Mine's a girl. But we tend to have girls first anyway on my side.

No, I don't think so. I know 4 only boys and 1 only girl. DS is an only child.

The people walking past might have more children (boys or girls) but they’re at a club, at a friend’s house, with their aunt…

I think most only children are so because the mum wasn't able to have any more kids. So I don't think they'd necessarily feel they were having an only child by choice. I could be wrong of course. I don't think there are more female than male ones either. I mean, I know both?
I would want a girl though personally. If I wanted kids at all that is!

I’m an only child and I’m a girl - but that’s because my mum had 3 miscarriages after me then my parents split up. They did try for more.
My cousin is an only child and a boy.
I don’t think it’s as clear cut as people only want girls so once they have them they don’t have anymore, if that’s the connection you are seeing!

Of course not

Your sample size is tiny. Try looking at the whole population.

I don’t think it’s as clear cut as people only want girls so once they have them they don’t have anymore, if that’s the connection you are seeing!

I agree that is what is being implied. For what it's worth most of the only children I know are boys.

I'm an only and a girl. I think my DF would have liked more but it didn't happen. My DS is an only and I would have liked another biological child but it didn't happen.

I think it's more likely that only child are because parents are either one and done or would like more but can't. I don't think it's based around chasing the gender you want.

Small sample size of DS' class - 4 only children. Three boys one girl.

I know more boy only children than girls.

I'm a female only child. My mother would have loved a big family but after three late-term miscarriages, all male, showed a hormone imbalance that meant she couldn't carry boys, she couldn't bear the thought of more heartache and my father had a vasectomy.

I know lots of only boys.
I don't think they stopped because of the sex of the child.
Usually they had infertility issues, separated or had some traumatic birth first time round.