Gender_And_Economics

Gender And Economics 1. The main point of these two articles is that the parents of a girl are more likely to divorce than the parents of a boy. Furthermore, there is a correlation between the more daughters a couple has as opposed to the more sons a couple has. In other words, a couple with three daughters is more likely to divorce than a couple with three sons. However, daughters alone do not cause divorce, because marriages differ in all kinds of ways that might contribute to divorce. With that said, having a daughter or daughters is not by itself the only reason why couples divorce. Many explanations can be offered as to why couples divorce. Such things include financial stress, infidelity, and emotional distance. These two articles believe strongly that daughters in a marriage are in some way a contributing factor to divorce. In both articles Landsburg is quick to point out that this trend is not just in the United States, but also holds truth throughout the world. In some cases, divorce rates are even higher for families with daughters in places like Mexico, Colombia, Kenya, and parents, divorce, daughters, boys, families, couple, articles, wealth, true, three, sons, regards, male, likely, having, gender, furthermore, family, daughter, children, because, about, words, vietnam, united, two, therefore, states, son, should, said, reason, rather, rates, prefer