Open AccessValues About Children And Fertility
Author(s) -
Cigdem Kagitcibas
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1603
Subject(s) - turkish , fertility , preference , prestige , context (archaeology) , demography , population , psychology , value (mathematics) , geography , sociology , statistics , mathematics , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
In the traditional context, male children are predominantly preferred to female children. In the VOC (Value of Children) survey presented by C. Kagitcibasi at the Second Turkish Demography Conference of the Institute of Population Studies, Izmir, 1975, boy preference reaches 71 percent as contrasted with a mere 23 percent for girls. Reasons for this preference: a son is a source of social prestige and recognition, together with old age security and material well -being.