Your textbook discussed parents' preferences about their child's gender. This research outside North America shows that
a. in India, when a sonogram shows that the fetus is female, mothers often request an abortion.
b. in China, girls are favored, so that there are many more girls than boys in the current population.
c. boys are favored in Asia, but girls are favored in Latin America and the Middle East.
d. parents' preferences about gender are remarkably similar in all cultures studied so far.
A
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