(WARUM) „Tun Sie dies, um eine Tochter zu zeugen“: Koreas neu entdeckte Besessenheit von kleinen Mädchen
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-05-09/business/industry/WHY-Do-this-to-conceive-a-daughter-Koreas-newfound-obsession-with-baby-girls/2587456
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biology classes worldwide should have mandatory „men’s sperm is the reason if it’s a boy or a girl“
Wonder how ratio of boys to girls went down. Still favored towards boys, but you’d assume it’d be 50:50 still, instead of 58:42 like it was at one point in 1990.
Or just, you know, have a child and accept however it comes out.
I’ll just throw out the explicit advice one aunty (mother of one son and two daughters) gave me back in the day which I ended up following in my ultimately successful quest to father a daughter:
„You gotta have sex in the morning.“
I can’t quite recall the specifics of her theory but, hey, it worked for me.
My wife, though, had her heart set on a son, so I never told her why I was suddenly always down for it in the morning during that time.
It won’t matter.
>Q. Why does it have to be a girl?
For many young couples, the answer is instinctive rather than ideological. Daughters, they say, stay closer — they call more, notice more, stay more emotionally present.
>Sons are often described, half-jokingly, as harder to read and easier to drift away.
>There is also a practical layer. In many households, child care is supported by the wife’s parents. Family life often runs through the maternal line — so a daughter feels more like continuity and less like departure.
TL;DR: They want daughters because they think daughters are easier to abuse, take advantage of, and guilt-trip into taking care of them when they get older.
I’m tired of the societal expectation that women are expected to perform all of this unpaid, invisible labor.
>“I wasn’t even sure I wanted kids, but my husband and I decided on one, and now, we’re just hoping it’s a girl,” said Yoo, a 32-year-old engineer in Gyeonggi. “I won’t have a second baby for sure — and I keep hesitating in case it turns out to be a boy.”
Please reconsider having children if you’re hesitant because the child might turn out to be a boy.
Or, you know, adopt a girl?
It’s reminiscent of when anti-LGBTQ+ parents use conversion therapy on, become violent toward, or disown their queer child after they come out of the closet or show any signs of gender nonconformity.
Some people should not have (or be around) children.
I understand the sentiment behind wanting girls. Because they’re perceived to be easier to raise and less likely to abandon you once they’re an adult. But I do find it funny that people think those trends will be true in 20 years time once their child has actually grown up.
I haven’t seen this mentioned yet in the discussion, but this is my perspective. As a mom of two boys, there is one particular external reason that I wish I had girls, and that is the military draft.
If it comes to war, wherever you live, it’s the families with boys that are socially and legally expected (compelled, required) to give up their children.
Rhetorical and politically loaded question: Why should I be required to send away both of my children, my whole world, to military conscription, when families with girls get to keep their children? Only because my children are boys? I only wish I had girls so that I didn’t have to carry the weight of the knowledge that one day, the government may require that I send my children, my treasures who are just as precious as girls, into hell. But it has to be mine, and not daughters, because my children are boys.
Daughters are much easier to raise. Fewer problems and fewer headaches. As they grow up, they stay emotionally closer to you.
I have each type. They are wonderful.
I had a slight preference for the other gender then second time around simply to experience the difference, but just wanted more kids.
IMO the far bigger question is do you want kids? The difference in gender doesn’t even come close to the difference between 0 and 1 (or more).
I was born in Korea and my family moved to the States in 2003- when we lived there, my mom was told „what a shame it was“ that she only had girls 🙁
I think there was some phenomenon where spending a lot of time in front of a computer screen resulted in daughters more frequently than sons
“Daughters made up the largest share of family caregivers at 42.4 percent, ahead of daughters-in-law at 16.8 percent, who even surpass the families‘ own sons at 15.2 percent.”
Welp, even the daughters-in-law care more than the biological sons. No wonder daughters are preferred.
I dont think this is new… I remember the favoring of daughter’s over 10 yrs ago. 딸버 or close to it was something I heard a lot.
As a Korean daughter myself I hated my life and gender role so I’m not having any kids. I don’t want to burden any child like I was. It ends with me