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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, she's not wrong . . . [/quote]

Are you actually serious? What do you mean, omg. :( That's so mean[/quote]

Yes.  I'm serious.  Obviously not 100 percent of the time.  But, by and large, daughters are more attentive to their parents as adults than sons.  Ever hear the expression "A son is a son until he takes a wife, but a daughter's a daughter for all of her life?"  There's truth to it.[/quote]

I am unclear if the point of your post is to revive a saying from 1956 or to make someone feel bad, but regardless, it's totally weird.[/quote]

You may think it's weird, but that doesn't make it any less true.  [/quote]

How are you the arbiter of truth? It's just such a rude and old-fashioned saying.[/quote]

Like a lot of sayings, it didn't come out of nowhere.[/quote]

Are you the MIL or invested in this for some other reason[/quote]

LOL.  Contrary opinions aren't welcome I suppose.  No I'm not the MIL, I just happen to think that there's some truth to what the MIL is saying.[/quote]

In this case contrary opinions are not helpful (at all) to the OP and are kind of obnoxious. That may be how you feel and you may be correct, but in this case, what is the benefit of saying it in a reply to OP? how could it possibly be helpful to her? [/quote]

Nobody asked your opinion over whether it's better to have sons or daughters, you seemed to latch on to it weirdly and that's what people are commenting on.[/quote]

This saying is just stupid anyways. There’s nothing inherently different about sons. What IS different is how people parent their sons, especially in the 1960s. [/quote]

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