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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel the same way (two daughters and a son). I have always weirdly felt like my son is more vulnerable, more in danger in the world. Almost like society expects him to shoulder every burden alone, vs my daughters will always have someone to take care of them. I know that seems regressive which is why it's so weird for me- I'm a feminist, I work, my husband is an equal partner. [/quote]

Op- this is exactly how I feel. I also work. But boys simply do not have the option of NOT being a provider. That option is just more accessible to women. I feel like my boy has to work ten times as hard as a result. [/quote]

Sure they do. 40% of households have a woman as the single or main wage-earner. Plenty of men supported by their wives or their children being supported by their exes.

The fact that you want to ignore nearly half the population and believe your son doesn’t have a choice is an interesting reflection on…you.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/05/29/breadwinner-moms/
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Women may be breadwinners but it doesn't make them happy.

"When it comes to family-life satisfaction, women who earn more than their husbands report lower satisfaction than their peers who have a lower income than their spouses, according to a new Institute for Family Studies/Wheatley Institution survey of U.S. adults ages 18 to 50. Just over half of women who out-earn their husbands (56%) say they are very satisfied with their family life, compared with nearly 70% of women who are not the primary breadwinner in the house. In contrast, the survey suggests that life satisfaction does not differ significantly among married men, whether they are the primary breadwinner or not."

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-happiness-penalty-for-breadwinning-moms[/quote]

Somehow I don’t think the happiness of her son’s eventual partner is something that the OP cares about in the slightest, given how easy she thinks her own daughter has it. [/quote]

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