he strong preference for sons over daughters and resulting discrimination against daughters in India is well known, though the preference is not uniformly observed across different regions of the country. India exhibits wide variations in the degree of sons' preference, with strong son preference found in northern India than in the south. Using data from the ethnographic survey carried out in Haryana State and the second National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2), this paper aims to update the documentation and examine patterns of gender disparities for children in Haryana state of North India in health outcomes. Specifically it addresses the following questions: Are there gender differences in child health status, disease incidence, and use of preventive and curative health care services? If so, does the extent of promale bias depend on socioeconomic status, caste, religion, education, rural/urban residence of the head of the household? The findings challenge the growing body of literature which suggests that girls in South Asia are discriminated against in the provision of health care but are not neglected in nutritional allocations.