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Wanting Mixed-Sex Children: Separate Spheres, Rational Choice, and Symbolic Capital Motivations

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Substantial research concludes that most Americans want to have ‘‘at least 1 boy and 1 girl,’’
yet few have empirically explored what drives this preference. The author used nationally representative data from the National Survey of Families and Households (N =5,544) and generalized
ordered logistic regression to evaluate 3 potential psychosocial frameworks motivating the mixed-sex ideal using gender and family attitude variables. The results supported a ‘‘separate spheres’’ ideology, through which parents may view the interests, traits, skills, and roles of boys and girls in families as very different. Second, the results supported a rational choice orientation, whereby achieving this goal maximizes having a variety of needs met in old age. Third, the desire for 1 boy and 1 girl may be motivated by its symbolic capital as a status marker, representing the image of a ‘‘balanced,’’ ideal family. Based on beliefs about the nonsubstitutability of boys and girls, this
ideal represents a form of gender inequality that persists in families.

Key Words: childhood/children, fairness and equality, family roles, family structure, gender, social psychology (family).

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Journal of Marriage and Family

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: Wiley-Blackwell., 2013

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Journal of Marriage and Family 75 (August 2013): 886 – 902

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English

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KELUARGA
ANAK- PEMELIHARAAN DAN KESEHATAN

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