a question about geometric distribution

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In a faraway country, they have a strange culture where they favor girls over boys. Additionally, they know that boys are trouble, so they settle for one in a family. Thus, each family give birth until their first son is born, and then they stop (they never take the risk of having two boys – double trouble ...). As a result, families in this country are of the following types:

a. Boy

b. Girl, Boy

c. Girl, Girl, Boy

d. Girl, Girl, Girl, Boy

e. … Are there more girls or more boys in this country? You may assume that ()=()=0.5

Is the answer is that it is equal number of boys and girls because the Expected Value is 2, what means that for every boy there will be born a girl ?