Choosing Daughters
China''s patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China''s birth-planning policy, this has led to a severe gender imbalance. But a counterpattern is emerging in rural China where a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single daughter. They are doing so even as birth-planning polic...
China''s patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China''s birth-planning policy, this has led to a severe gender imbalance. But a counterpattern is emerging in rural China where a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single daughter. They are doing so even as birth-planning polic...
