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[quote=LEONARDO,306135]Do you prefer having a son or a daughter? If this question was asked 10 years ago, a majority of Chinese couples would give a definite answer: a son. In particular, some househoulds in rurual China did their best to give birth to a boy even at the risk of defying “one child policy” and being heavily fined. Today, a large portion of urban families prefer having a daughter to having a son because of the roaring house price in China’s big cities. In Chinese culture, it is men who are supposed to raise the family and buy the real estate. Therefore, to raise a son means that the parents have to shoulder more financial pressure since it is the boy’s duty to buy a home before marriage.

This is the future financial pressure after a boy grows up. Recently, a survey (by GE Money) on the difference between bring up a son and bringing up a daughter in Britain reveals that a son will cost parents £7000 more to raise than a daughter (from age 1-18 or 20). The reason why raising a boy cost more than raising a girl is that boys need to be kept in gadgets and sporting equipment. Raising a son is not as economical as raising a daughter! This is a truth not only in China but in Britain. What about the rest of the world? Certainly, in some cultures, sons are still thought to the only valid heir of the family. They seldom care about the economic costs. Anyhow, raising a family is enjoyable but it isn’t cheap!
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