Background: Gender preference is prevalent in some communities and using medical techniques to choose the baby’s Sex may cause the gender discrimination and gender imbalance in communities. Therefore, evaluating the gender preferences and attitudes towards using Sex selection technologies seems to be necessary.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Avicenna Fertility Center. Participants were 100 women with one child who were referred for Sex selection. Data were collected through self-developed questionnaires. The questions were designed by the researchers at the experts’ panel. To determine the validity of the questionnaire, the viewpoints of professors specialized in these issues were obtained. The statistical analysis of the data was performed using SPSS software (Version 11.5), and p<0.05 was considered significant.Results: Tendency toward the male was more than female Sex (55.5% male, 15.5% female and 28.5% no tendency). Majority of participants agreed with Sex selection with medical reason and Sex selection in order to balance the family. Women's level of education had positive effect on agreements to fetal Sex selection with medical and non-medical reasons (p<0.001).Conclusion: Although gender preferences were toward the male Sex but this preference was not very strong. Most participants agreed with non-medical Sex selection for balancing the Sex composition of their children. It doesn’t seem that non-medical Sex selection for family balancing causes severe Sex imbalance in Iran.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare early maladaptive schemas in Sex and non-Sex offenders.Methods: In current descriptive post-hoc study, 45 Sex offenders were selected by voluntary sampling method from Tehran Ghezel Hesar and Karaj Rajaei Shahr prisons. Forty five homogeneous non-Sex offenders in terms of age, marital status, education and job were selected from Karaj detention camp. The short form of Young Schema Questionnaire was administered to both groups and the data was analyzed by one-way analysis of variance and stepwise discriminate analysis.Results: The mean score of nonSex offenders for subjugation schema was higher than that of Sex offenders (p=0.006). The stepwise discriminate analysis showed no difference between Sex and non-Sex offenders (p=0.001), though the subjugation and mistrust/ abuse schemas were the best predictor schemas of being in Sex or non-Sex offender groups. However, the success rates of stepwise discriminant analysis in predicting involvement in offender groups were not satisfactory.Conclusion: Due to the limited number of different schemas between the two groups, it seems that the core psychopathology and fundamental schemas for two types of Sex and non-Sex offence are approximately identical and except for schemas other factors affect the kind of offence.