Do parents have favourites among their children? or dont they?
Why is there the feeling of being neglected or not given enough freedom and importance as the other sibling? This is more pronounced in Indian families with the girl child feeling more curbed while the son enjoys all the freedom and also importance. No, I'm not talking about those illiterate parents who go to the extent of killing the female foetus (though some cowardly literates also do that), but those parents who are well educated and otherwise seem to be the ideal parents. Why is this differentiation? Is it because the society is established that the daughter moves into the husband's house while the parents have to depend on the son in their old age? Is this need and dependency create a unconscious partiality in the treatment on their kids? Or is it the fact that they are more protective about the daughter as anything would affect the future of the daughter in this society of contrieved thoughts that places too much emphasises on many stupid things in the name of values, morals and culture?
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Kinda strikes a chord. In a family with a gal and a boy, the equation of attachment *what?* is dad-daughter and mom-son. Remember all those fights back at home with my sis, it was my dad who would bail her out everytime! SIGH. Miss those days.
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