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Boys Preferred Over Girls, Poll Shows
Americans Show Slight Baby Gender Preference for Boys If Limited to 1 Child
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
July 6, 2007 -- People in the U.S. show a slight baby gender preference for having a boy instead of a girl if they were only able to have one child.

That's according to a new Gallup poll on baby gender preferences.

The telephone poll, conducted in June, included about 1,000 U.S. adults. They were asked: "Suppose you could only have one child. Would you prefer that it be a boy or a girl?"

Here are the participants' baby gender preferences:

Boy: 37%
Girl: 28%
Either/doesn't matter: 26%
Not sure/no opinion: 9%
The "either/doesn't matter" choice wasn't mentioned as an option by the pollsters. But more than a quarter of the participants expressed that view anyway.