Preference for Sons Persisted After the Fall of the Soviet Union

Some traditional families feel like they need a male child to either carry on the blood line and family name. They believe that sons will be the ones to take care of parents in their old age, whereas daughters are going to be taken care of their husbands parents. In recent years, the preference for sons has been decreasing. And why is thath? There's a couple of reasons. First, after the initial post communist economic turmoil, women's wages rosen georgia. That's beneficial in a couple of ways. It can increase women's bargaining power at home. So say, a woman might be able to overrule her husband who wants to abort a girl. Yes.