| Autor: |
Nathalie Auger, Clara Bolster-Foucault, Marianne Bilodeau-Bertrand, Sahar Khademi, Améyo Djeha |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
International Journal of Public Health, Vol 67 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1661-8564 |
| DOI: |
10.3389/ijph.2022.1604869 |
| Popis: |
Objective: We assessed the association between fetal sex and the likelihood of marriage during pregnancy.Methods: We analyzed a cohort of 1,334,911 women who were unmarried at conception and had a live birth between 1990 and 2018 in Quebec, Canada. The exposure was fetal sex, determined by ultrasound. The outcome was marriage during pregnancy. We estimated hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the association of child sex with the likelihood of marriage during pregnancy according to region of origin.Results: Among women who were unmarried at conception, 13.1% of foreign-born women got married during pregnancy compared with 2.6% of Canadian-born women. Women from the Middle East and North Africa who were pregnant with boys were 1.13 times more likely to marry during pregnancy compared with women who were pregnant with girls (95% CI 1.02–1.26). There was no association among Canadian-born women.Conclusion: Women from some cultural minorities who are pregnant with boys may be more likely to marry during pregnancy in Western settings. Gender inequality may manifest as a preference for sons that influences the likelihood of marriage. |
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