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Beckett*Gizmo*Charlie*Little Kitty*Hudson*Chiggy
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My grandmother made an observation (that is not statistically based or anything)
After each war she's noticed an increase in boys being born. She was born in 1930, but had a slew of older boy cousins born in the early 20's (after WWI).
Boys followed for friends and family after WWII, Vietnam, Korea (we have a break in the family for any babies after desert storm), and now we're at the "end" of another war and it seems like everyone I know is having boys.
I thought it was an interesting observation, something I'd like to take a look at, scientifcally, at some point.
Looking back over your families, do you see this type of trend, as well?
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For me I see a huge jump in girls. Everyone I know recently had or is having a girl!
Where did you read this/find this out? I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm honestly curious. I'm team green, but do know of a few IUIers with twin girls...
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One one side of my family it alternates. My dad has 5 brother and 2 sisters, I have 5 sisters and 2 brothers, i'm not having 7 children but think I am having a boy.
It's the same with my cousins and siblings. My cousins there are 30 girls and 4 boys, and the next generation there are way more boys. Out of my 10 neices and nephews alone there are only 2 girls. ?
I don't think there can be any scientific basis for this. Even if your grandma took into account everyone she knew, that's only the people she knows. It's not a random sample. You would have to do a study on the census records to see if that's at all true. It would be a possible to do such a study and I'm assuming that it either has been done or hasn't because the answer is that it's all 50/50.
I come from a family of boys. I have two brothers, my dad has just him and his brother, DH is just him and his brother, and we're having a boy. It's just coincidence brought on by a small family. My MIL and her siblings were all born after the war and there are 5 girls and 1 boy. My other IL's had 8 kids and half were boys and half were girls.
I haven't heard this - I'm a historian, 20th c, so my guess is I would've seen that somewhere, in monographs, census abstracts, etc. That doesn't mean it isn't true, of course. Just noting that it isn't in academic histories of the family.
It could be that boys have been more notable in times after wars because there is such a large scale generalized concern about the death of young males (on the battlefields) and fears of an unbalanced sex ratio. Boys might have been more reassuring that things are going back to "right" and thus older generations remember more boys than girls being born - when really it wasn't much different from any other year in history.