The overall sex ratio at the national level (the number of females per 1,000 males) has improved by seven points from 933 in 2001 census to 940 in 2011 census. However, the matter of concern is the lowest child sex ratio of 914 girls per 1,000 boys at the national level in the 2011 census as against 927 in the 2001 census. It shows that aversion to daughters continues despite PCPNDT Act and state measures to protect the girl child. This article examines how family plans and uses discrete strategies to limit the family size deciding the number of children, particularly sons and daughters in the family. Why daughters have always been dispensed with and sons’ number in the family is again not unlimited? A deficit in the girl child population is leading to ‘male marriage squeeze’, a serious implication of the shortage of marriageable age girls.