Daughters cause divorce?

[florenceuk]

Wondered what people thought of this: daughters cause divorce ?

Semi interesting statistics but ultimately cobblers (I hope so anyway !). My parents separated when I was 6 and I was their only child, my husbands parents were happily married until they died and were parents to 3 boys. I am certain that my gender had nothing to do with the state of my parent's marriage, and more to do with the fact that my father was/is a violent, angry alcoholic with a serious attitude problem !

Whatever next ? My parents are still together after 31 yrs of marriage and 2 daughters later. My SIL has had 3 daughters, 1 son, got married at 16yrs and has a very happy marriage. Personally I think its cobblers too

What utter crap people spiel?
People will get divorced for various reasons not just because you have daughters.
He wants to remember the fact that there are more females being born than males.

What a load of c**p.

I agree with everyone. This is total bllcks. If it is true, which I doubt, the only reason I can think of is that, as most divorces are sought by women, women with girls don't want to set their daughters a poor example by staying in an unhappy marriage.

I think its a case of - you cna prove anything with statistics. FWIW my parents have three daughters (the case he cites as causing divorce) and have been married 33 years.

Hmm,statistics. I only skim-read the article, but does it say how many numbers they crunched to come to this conclusion?
And who says statistical differences this small prove anything anyway?
Probably some truth ( unfortunately) in the preference for boys / girls in different countries though.

That's really strange to me about parents on average prefering sons. I would have been throughly disappointed not to have had a daughter. Now major apologies in advance if I offend anyone (sorry! sorry!) but I tend to agree with the saying (although not right in all circumstances) that:

'A daughter is a daughter for life, a son is a son until he gets a wife'

• certainly true in my family where my brother barely bothers with our parents.

Oh, so women are being blamed yet again?

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I am the eldest of two daughters, my parents married when my mother was 19, had me at 20, my sister at 21 and my brother at 23. They have and still are married 47 years later (this month)

In my daughters set of friends all the girls 9 17 year olds) have parents who are still married, but 6 of her male friends all have parents who have divorced and they all have older sisters too!

Bollo as my DH would say!

I have no daughters!

I have 3 daughters so that explains why I got divorced then.
My arse

Although I thought it was interesting that there did seem to be a preference for boys - I would have thought nowadays at least in the UK, it would go the other way, because people think girls are easier to handle, also boys may have harder time at school etc etc. I have to admit, I wanted a girl initially (although DS is lovely and wouldn't swap him).

I don't think anyone can argue about the almost universal preference in most of the world - Asia, Africa, the East etc for boys. I think that centuries of conditioning that boys are more desirable may be proving harder to shake off than we might hope. There is some evidence that men go on to earn more if they have a son rather than a daughter. I think we may have the last dregs of a belief that sons are more desirable that has existed for most of human history - it is on its way out in the developed world though (I hope).

What a load of codswallop!

"Next, parents of girls are quite a bit more likely to try for another child than parents of boys, which suggests that there are more parents hoping for sons than for daughters."

I was desperate for a second DD which is how I ended up with THREE DSs!!! Perhaps all these people in their trial also wanted a sister for their DD?!!

I've been married 20 years... DDs boyfs mum has 4 DSs, no DD & is divorced...

A lot of women with 1 DD don't bother remarrying because they enjoy their life as they are & have a strong relationship with their child.. what does that prove?

The article was written by a man. There's a surprise.

I thought it was a totally subjective piece of bilge and closely related to the "deep down mothers hate and resent their daughters because at 14 or 15 they will supplant them as sexually attractive beings" cr*p that I have seen peddled in supposedly responsible newspapers (by male writers, with pervy glee).