According to It’s a Boy! Will You Marry Me?, “a woman who has a boy out of wedlock is much more likely to marry the father than if she has a girl.” Interesting. How great is the effect?
For this study, they analyzed data from a national study of 600 children born to single mothers and found a woman was 42 times more likely to marry the father of her son than she was to marry the father if the child was a girl.
Excuse me? Forty-two times more likely? Also surprising:
Unmarried mothers of boys were 11 percent more likely to find a husband — even a husband who was not the child’s biological father — than those with girls.