Women want daughters, and men want sons -- if you believe research done at a Canadian university.

Most parents-to-be, when asked, say they just want a healthy baby. But a report in Time magazine says the researchers at Queen's University found that no matter how they worded the questions, there was a significant gender preference along gender lines

Men’s preference for sons is pretty easy to explain in terms of evolution. Males have a greater chance of perpetuating the family genes by fathering far more children than a woman could ever bear. Women’s preference for daughters is more nuanced. Maybe it’s a maternal desire to have a shared experience of pregnancy, or maybe women are subscribing to visions of perceived mom-daughter emotional bonds. Call it a “legacy drive,” say the authors, and consider that modern women are so infused with pride over their social and financial empowerment that they want to share the good life with their girls."

I am the mother of a daughter and a son. We did not know the gender of either until delivery. And I don't think I had a preference either time, although I'm not sure how I would have fared answering questions like "If you were only to have one child, what gender would you prefer it to be?"

As a parent, did you wish for a child of one sex over the other? Or if you are planning to have children in the future, would you rather have a daughter or a son? And is there a reason, or is it just a whim or how you always imagined your family to be?