Old Habits Die Hard? Lingering Son Preference in an Era of Normalizing Sex Ratios at Birth in South Korea

Yoo, Sam Hyun; Hayford, Sarah R.; Agadjanian, Victor

doi:10.1007/s11113-016-9405-1

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“…It is therefore important to continue to engage with such rural communities about how to amend these risky traditions meaningfully towards making pregnancy and childbirth safer. The tradition of son preference and its implications has been described in many cultures and countries [25, 26]. The findings of our study corroborate the narrative that son preference continues to be an issue in many country settings [27, 28].…”

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A cross-sectional study of traditional practices affecting maternal and newborn health in rural Nigeria

Jimoh¹,

Adaji²,

Adelaiye³

et al. 2018

Pan Afr Med J

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Introduction Certain traditional practices which have negative effects on maternal and child health continue to be practiced in sub-Saharan African countries. A survey was carried out in a rural village in Nigeria to understand the scale and range of these practices. Methods This was a cross-sectional study in which trained interviewers administered pre-tested questionnaires on child-bearing women using questionnaires embedded on android devices. Results The median age of marriage and pregnancy were 15 and 16 years respectively. Home births were high (90.4%) while non-skilled birth attendant was 87.4%. The community had a son preference index ratio of 1:4.1. Up to 81.5% of mothers responded that one form of unhygienic traditional procedure or the other was performed on their children. Time to initiation of breast feeding was in hours in the majority (76.3%) of mothers, with a high rate of use of prelacteal feeds (85.2%). Being an adolescent mother (AOR 0.403, 95%CI 0.203, 0,797) and utilizing a skilled provider at birth (AOR 0.245, 95%CI 0.088, 0.683) were associated with less likelihood of having an unhygienic procedure performed on children. Conclusion The findings of our study suggest that traditional practices which could have negative effects on maternal and child health are still ongoing in the study community. Child protection laws and safeguarding principles could help to reduce these practices and would need to be developed and implemented in these settings where these practices are still prevalent.

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confidence: 88%

A cross-sectional study of traditional practices affecting maternal and newborn health in rural Nigeria

Jimoh¹,

Adaji²,

Adelaiye³

et al. 2018

Pan Afr Med J

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“…The decline of son preference in South Korea has been found to be associated with the rapid rise in education, urbanisation, and broader social changes wrought by the country's blistering pace of urbanisation and development from the 1960s (Chun & Das Gupta, 2009;Chung & Das Gupta, 2007;Yoo et al, 2017).…”

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‘Not a bowl of rice, but tender loving care’: from aborting girls to preferring daughters in South Korea

Chun

Gupta

2021

Asian Population Studies

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“…Further, South Korea received attention as the first country with abnormally elevated sex ratios at birth that subsequently returned to normal levels, indicating a rise and then fall in use of sex‐selective abortion (Chung and Das Gupta 2007). Industrialization, urbanization, and educational expansion explain some of these changes, but much of the return to normal sex ratios at birth remains unexplained (Das Gupta 2010; Yoo, Hayford, and Agadjanian 2017). The growth of sonless families may be another factor that helps explain the normalization of sex ratios in South Korea.…”

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Another Gendered Demographic Dividend: Adjusting to a Future without Sons

Allendorf¹

2020

Population & Development Rev

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Sonless families may pose a gendered demographic dividend. As fertility declines, families with only daughters are likely to grow. In turn, patriarchal family systems may weaken when many families are unable to engage in patriarchal practices. I examine some of these theorized dynamics in India. Sonless families did grow as fertility declined, reaching 10 percent in India as a whole in 2015 and approaching 20 percent in states with earlier fertility declines. I also identify a substantial influence of children's sex on mothers' expectations of old-age support. Using panel data from the India Human Development Survey, I compare women's expectations after they had children to earlier expectations when they did not yet have children. Women with sons kept or further embraced patriarchal expectations that a son would provide support. Sonless mothers largely gave up patriarchal expectations, turning to daughters or away from children altogether.

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Old Habits Die Hard? Lingering Son Preference in an Era of Normalizing Sex Ratios at Birth in South Korea

Cited by 25 publications

References 45 publications

A cross-sectional study of traditional practices affecting maternal and newborn health in rural Nigeria

A cross-sectional study of traditional practices affecting maternal and newborn health in rural Nigeria

‘Not a bowl of rice, but tender loving care’: from aborting girls to preferring daughters in South Korea

Another Gendered Demographic Dividend: Adjusting to a Future without Sons

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