Miss Manners: Large family wonders at people’s crass comments about ratio of girls to boys

The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus: Sex ratio: Still seeking answers to balancing act of boys vs. girls

Sex ratio: Still seeking answers to balancing act of boys vs. girls

NBC News: Lead, mercury, other pollutants could affect birth ratios of boys to girls

Lead, mercury and other pollutants could be affecting the ratio of boys to girls born each year, according to a study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS Computational Biology.

Lead, mercury, other pollutants could affect birth ratios of boys to girls

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For every group of 100 girls born in most of the world's countries, 105 or 106 boys are brought into the world, with only slight variations. In the United States, more boys than girls have been born ...

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