Out of about ten babies who I know were delivered last year, only one of them was a male. The same trend is set to repeat itself this year. This is in addition to the preponderance of females in Nigeria, which could be disconcerting when viewed through the lens of husband scarcity. In fact, I used to be less-than-happy with any woman who delivers a baby girl as she [the mother] is compounding an existing problem. What are the causes, effects and implication of this trend? Is it global?

Is this a recent epidemic?

Olu-Emma & Ass.:
Out of about ten babies who I know were delivered last year, only one of them was a male. The same trend is set to repeat itself this year. This is in addition to the preponderance of females in Nigeria, which could be disconcerting when viewed through the lens of husband scarcity. In fact, I used to be less-than-happy with any woman who delivers a baby girl as she [the mother] is compounding an existing problem. What are the causes, effects and implication of this trend? Is it global?

From a biological and medical perspective, women do not determine the gender of a baby. This is 2013 and I expect that Nigerians with all the book they read and degrees they go earning from around the world should know this simple fact. A woman's egg contains only the X chromosome. A man's sperm contains the X and Y chromosome. During fertilization, if the man gives Y chromosome the baby will be a boy. If he gives X, the baby will be a girl. Stop blaming your women for all your short comings. You should ask the men why their sperms consist of mainly X chromosomes thereby causing them to impregnate their wives with mostly female babies. After all, a woman can only give a man that which he the man placed in her womb.

Moreover, just because those you know keep birthing girls does not mean that is the case around the country. When I came to Nigeria I noticed that there seems to be more males than females. Be it in the banks, on the streets, just about anywhere you go. Or are you people locking up your females in the home or something?

I also think that there is no husband scarcity in Nigeria. That is what the typical chauvinist Nigerian male will have the average gullible Nigerian woman believe. The truth is, many of the Nigerian males in Nigeria are not doing well. They are poor, unemployed or underemployed and cannot even provide for themselves much less raise a family. So, if there seems to be husband scarcity, it is because of poverty and not because enough Nigerian males are no longer being born. And even if there is a male scarcity in Nigeria, there are many other black men from around the world that the Nigerian woman can get married to so I don't see a problem here.

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dasparrow:

From a biological and medical perspective, women do not determine the gender of a baby. This is 2013 and I expect that Nigerians with all the book they read and degrees they go earning from around the world should know this simple fact. A woman's egg contains only the X chromosome. A man's sperm contains the X and Y chromosome.

You are a conceited charlatan and u surely didn't understand my post.