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Definition family balancing in British English

family balancing noun

[uncountable] noun
1

the practice of choosing the sex of an unborn baby on the basis of the sex of the children a family already has

Example

...this peculiar new notion of family balancing where couples decide they just want two children and they want one of each

Definition family balancing in British English