This association tended to be stronger for
boys than for girls, suggesting that perhaps boys are more susceptible to the influence of their father from a very early age.
If a guy contacts you that lives further than that you have to ask yourself how you are going to date him successfully, most guys aren't prepared to drive
longer than that for a girl that they have only seen a picture of.
Sommers notes that in intelligence tests, the normal distribution for boys spreads out wider at the
tails than for girls — more scores at very high and very low levels, which is consistent with what President Summers was suggesting.
Recent laws in some states has made it illegal for automobile insurance firms to charge different rates for
men than for girls, while no clear changes look to be made within america or Canada.
In fact, we found that exposure to the literacy hour significantly improved students» reading and English achievement, with bigger gains for
boys than for girls.
Among parents of the kindergarten class that entered in fall 2010, 6.2 percent reported that they delayed their child's school entry by a year, and the share was slightly higher for boys (7.2 percent)
than for girls (5.2 percent, see Figure 1a).
As previously published, in our sample a parent - reported ADHD diagnosis by a physician or psychologist was significantly more prevalent for boys (7.9 %)
than for girls (1.8 %).27
Amato and Keith (1991) found that the deficit in social adjustment associated with marital disruption was greater for boys
than for girls.
In the externalizing sample, initial CD symptoms predicted later CD symptoms above and beyond ODD and ADHD HI symptoms; this relation was stronger for boys
than for girls.
The effects of growing up without both parents on aggression, rule breaking, and delinquency are also larger for boys
than for girls.
Although diagnosis of ODD was not associated with higher functional impairment by sex, individual symptoms and subthreshold diagnosis were more impairing for boys
than for girls.
The rate was higher for boys (23.7 %)
than for girls (5.3 %).
Four hypotheses were drawn from recent reviews of studies on this topic: The relation between marital conflict and child behavior problems will be (1) positive overall and will be stronger (2) for boys
than for girls, (3) for cases based entirely on parent self - report data than for cases involving external sources of data, (4) for clinic than for nonclinic families.
-- Though the total amount of added sugar in the diet was higher for boys
than for girls, the proportion of total calories that came from added sugar was similar — 16.3 percent for boys and 15.5 percent for girls.