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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the perception is that girls are easier to manage behaviorally. Im not saying that it’s true, but that is what people think.[/quote]

It’s is hard to broad brush a whole gender but this is the answer. People think girls will be calmer and easier. Depending on the family and cultural dynamics, mothers likely think girls will eventually help them with female dominated labor. Helping with cooking and cleaning, eventually elder care for grandparents. My close friend is going through this now. Her grandfather is living with her parents and needs a lot of help. She stops by every weekend to give her mother a break, her two brothers only really come around for holidays. In my own family it is the women that organize and cook every single holiday meal.

I know that this isn’t the case for every family, but I think this dynamic is common.[/quote]

I don't know anyone my age (30s) who is interested in having girls so that they can do more labor or elder care? i personally wanted girls because I'm girly. I guess I dreamed of doing little girl hair, playing dolls again, and raising strong women. I didn't know anything about boys. I have 2 DD, 1 DS. I'm raising all 3 to know how to decorate for holidays and cook holiday meals. I don't believe in women doing more chores. My DH does 50% of the chores around here and is our main cook, so I don' think my kids will think that men shouldn't do work. [/quote]

Totally agree, I’m raising my son the same way. But what is different is that my daughter really is more aware of what’s going on. She notices if someone is down or if one of us has been working a lot, any number of things. If she is like that when we are old, I will really appreciate it. With my son, he doesn’t notice what’s going on unless someone tells him very directly. We are working on it with him but it’s not his natural inclination.  I guess these are my particular children so I can’t generalize. [/quote]

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