Older-sibling and younger-sibling sex ratios in Frisch and Hviid's (2006) national cohort study of two million Danes

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 860-863

  Blanchard, Ray ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birth order; Demography; Denmark; Epidemiology; Homosexuality; Marriage; Older brothers; Sex ratio; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIBLING RELATION;

COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 36849058678     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-006-9154-z     Document Type: Article

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