In the countryside, why is it better to have a daughter than a son? The third reason is sad.

Editor, I have lived in rural areas for many years, and the previous phenomenon of preference for boys over girls in rural areas was quite serious. This has led to a sharp decline in the number of girls in rural areas in recent years, and many rural boys have to pay high betrothal gifts to find wives, so it is inevitable that a group of rural men become bachelors. However, in recent years, in our rural areas, more and more families are more willing to raise daughters. Because it is becoming more and more clear that having a daughter has at least three advantages over having a son.

First of all, the financial burden of giving birth to a daughter in the countryside is relatively small. This is actually very easy to understand. In rural areas, if a family has a son, then when he is of marriage age, he needs to build a house for him and find a wife for him. This pressure is actually quite great for peasant families, especially when the bride price in rural areas has skyrocketed in recent years. On the other hand, having daughters, even those more enlightened rural parents, do not ask for much money for betrothal gifts from men, at least there is not much financial pressure on daughters to get married.

Second, the burden of giving birth to a daughter in the countryside is also relatively small. In the countryside, when a son marries and marries a wife, he lives in the same village as his parents. When the daughter-in-law gives birth to a child, the parents have to be busy to take care of it. If their son and daughter-in-law need to go out to work, then the old rural couple have a lot to worry about. On the other hand, daughters in rural areas are usually married to other villages. after giving birth to children, it is mainly the parents of the man who are in trouble. In fact, this situation is the same in both urban and rural areas, except that the situation in rural areas is more prominent, because the traditional concept in rural areas is more conservative, and grandparents generally do not participate in taking care of their daughter's children.

Third, in rural areas, daughters tend to be more filial to their parents than sons. The situation in rural areas is that after getting married, the son lives in the same village with his parents, although he does not look down, and it is more convenient for parents to provide help to their parents if they have something to do, but according to the actual situation in our rural areas, many sons "marry a wife and forget their mother". In particular, many peasant families have not only one son, but often several sons shirking the responsibility of supporting their parents. For those bedridden rural elderly, it is often their daughters who can really take care of their daily life. If you look at the rural cases reported on the rural channels on TV, many of them are unfilial sons and seldom unfilial daughters.

The above is the editor's analysis. As an old farmer, because I don't know much about the situation in the city, I don't know what kind of concept the parents in the city have in terms of giving birth to children. There are stories in the countryside and troubles in the city, and there is no distinction between them. I write about the countryside because I love it!

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