SEX OF CHILDREN
ARE MORE BABIES BORN IN WARTIME? There is a popular conception that in wartime, when many males may be killed, nature automatically sets about restoring the balance—that the proportion of boy babies to girl babies is greater than in peacetime. This conception may be correct, but it is not borne out by the New Zealand figures for the quarter ended September 30, 1940, the first quarter since the outbreak of war in which the full effect of any such tendency would be apparent. In fact, the figures show the contrary. For these three months the number of male births for each 1000 female births was 1026. This is lower than any similar annual figure during the last 40 years. Since 1900 the smallest number of male births for each 1000 female births has been 1030 in 1917 and 1918.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4378, 15 January 1941, Page 5
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142SEX OF CHILDREN Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4378, 15 January 1941, Page 5
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