Daughter preference describes human families seeking to bear and raise daughters, rather than sons. Daughter preference is evident in contemporary Japan and Japanese-American immigrant families. South Korea has also demonstrated a measurable shift from son preference to daughter preference. Daughter preference appears at measurable levels in three Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. One study found that a significant contributing factor to daughter preference was the "number of wife's sisters." In the

matrilineal Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline – their mother's Lineage (anthropology), lineage – and which can in ...

inheritance system of

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

, daughter preference emerges if all existing children are sons. Daughter preference or

son preference Sex selection is the attempt to control the sex of the offspring to achieve a desired sex. It can be accomplished in several ways, both pre- and post-implantation of an embryo, as well as at childbirth. It has been marketed under the title family ...

is sometimes expressed by higher levels of household investment in offspring of preferred gender.

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