Urquia: Assistant Professor and Marcelo Urquia

urquia: Families prefer to have boys rather than girls, said Urquia, an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba, according to CBC. Or, if they already have daughters, they want to have at least one male in the family. The lead author of an upcoming study, Marcelo Urquia, said his team's findings show Indian mothers are more than twice as likely to have a male third child, if a couple has already had two daughters. Abortions may be behind skewed boy-girl birth ratio among Indian-born moms While Canadian-born women give birth to about 105 boys for every 100 girls, Urquia and his team from the University of Toronto and St. We expected that with longer exposure to Canada's environment of greater gender equality, immigrants from India would progressively shift toward valuing daughters and sons more equally, Urquia said. Michael's Hospital, showed Punjabi-speaking mothers in Ontario, at their third birth, had 240 boys for every 100 girls. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.