Sex Ratio and Birth Control

H. Weiler

doi:10.1086/222691

Sex Ratio and Birth Control

American Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1086/222691 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 65 (3) ◽

pp. 298-299 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

H. Weiler

Keyword(s):

Sex Ratio ◽

Birth Control

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Birth control—sex preference and sex ratio

Heredity ◽

10.1038/hdy.1981.103 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 417-423 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Miguel A Toro

Keyword(s):

Sex Ratio ◽

Birth Control ◽

Sex Preference

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Some Observations on Infanticide In Medieval Muslim Society

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743800033377 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 185-200 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Avner Giladi

Keyword(s):

Sex Ratio ◽

Birth Control ◽

Social Group ◽

Dependency Ratio ◽

Population Limitation ◽

Group Boundaries ◽

Fertilization Process ◽

Precise Knowledge ◽

General Reduction ◽

Population Numbers

Infanticide is known to have been a common means of birth control from early, apparently even prehistoric, times. In societies that lacked any precise knowledge of the fertilization process and consequently methods for its prevention, infanticide was used more frequently than other known methods of population limitation, such as abstention from intercourse and abortion. Infanticide was expected to serve several functions: “general reduction in population numbers (including twin removal), removal of defectives, elimination of social ‘illegitimates’ (i.e., offspring whose existence violated social group boundaries), response to loss of the nursing mother, control of dependency ratio, manipulation of sex ratio, and finally, use as a backstop to other methods when those fail”.

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