Just Curious............ - Holly Springs,NC

In my family I have 8 nephews and one neice. On my husbands side we have 6 nephews and 1 neice. We have 2 girls and 1 boy. We were the only family to have two female children. So, I'd say I believe those statistics.

The numbers are going to be either nationwide or worldwide, but each family will genetically have more of one or the other many times. Some towns or areas may tend to happen to have more girls or boys by coincedence.

I have 4 sons, 1 daughter.
My mother had 2 boys, 1 girl. (lost 1 girl, 1 boy)
Hubby's parents had 6 girls, 3 boys (lost twin boys)
My son has 1 girl
My maternal grandparents had 1 girl
My paternal grandparents had 3 girls, 3 boys (grampa had 3 boys, 3 girls from previous marriage on top of that)

I guess it's pretty mixed with us.

K. B
mom to 5 including triplets

I heard long ago - and I'm not saying whether it's true - that during times of relative social peace more baby girls are born, and during or after times of social conflict - say, a war or something - more baby boys are born. I just remember reading this in a newspaper or something; how it was come up with I have no idea.

When our four granddaughters were born, we really did think this generation of the family was simply going to specialize in girls. Then grandson number one amazed us sixteen months ago. Then grandson number two showed up almost two months ago. My husband has two sisters and no brothers; I have one sister and no brothers. My father was one of five boys and two girls, and so was my mother (what happened to the five brothers I should have had?). If you can make some sort of statistical argument out of that, go to it. It's more than I can do!

well in my family since my aunts and uncles kids on just my dads side we have 18 boys to 9 girls so exactly 50% less girls at the moment! we don't make girls very well :) and to make things worse for our family all the girls were born to men..so there are no men to keep the name going!!

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2 girls in my house :)

I know of 8 boys that are born or due to be born in the past 3 months and in the next 2 months. I think its a boy year. :)

I myself...have 2 girls. Everyone else close to me has their boy/girl family. :)

For as long as I have been reading stats on the subject more girls are born than boys though I can't remember the exact ratio.

Around here it seems like everyone has the same gender at the same time. When I was pregnant with my son I knew 5 other girls all having boys and only one having a girl. When he was a newborn I had a hard time getting him clothes because the local stores were always sold out of his size! Now that I had my daughter it seems like everyone is having a girl. But if there is only 100 girls for every 105 boys it will be rough competition for our sons as they get older lol.

Odd, I read an article that said there are more girls born than boys, which would make more sense to me because women can only have one baby every 9 months, while men can have as many children as they want. Biologically speaking, for survival, it would make sense for girls to outnumber boys.

I think the reason there is so much conflicting info out there is that it really is a 50/50 shot. :)