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Desire for Additional Children and the Accompanying Sex Preference: A Comparative Study Between West Bengal and Bangladesh

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Desire for additional children and accompanying sex preference have been examined in this study in two culturally similar regions West Bengal (an Indian state) and Bangladesh. West Bengal has lower desire for additional children as compared to Bangladesh. Women with ‘only daughters and no sons’ in all parity are most likely to progress to the next birth. This association is more prominent in Bangladesh than in West Bengal; 73.35% of women in Bangladesh with one daughter and no sons have desire for more children, and for West Bengal, it is 54.47%. Depending on the intensity of sex preference, couples may desire to stop their childbearing.

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Rajak, R., Sinha, D., Lahiri, S. (2020). Desire for Additional Children and the Accompanying Sex Preference: A Comparative Study Between West Bengal and Bangladesh. In: Chattopadhyay, A., Ghosh, S. (eds) Population Dynamics in Eastern India and Bangladesh. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3045-6_12

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