The poor one's go for more boys in hope that the boy may earn for family and the family may come out of the poverty in future. ;may be a good logic according to them to overcome poverty. What amuses me most is the creamy layer's longing for boy. For rich one's it is the issue of the property inheritance. If it’s a matter of property, then legally male dominates the society.
Secondly, the boy is the one who carries the family name. So there is a stupid yet strong cultural preference for sons, who will carry the family name, inherit ancestral property, care for parents in old age and light their fathers' funeral pyres.
DG, my Father stood firm behind my Mother to take this rather strong decision. Don't know if it is ok to say it here on an open forum, but he was the one who had taken the decision of Vasectomy in order to control future births in family. Believe me, the male, undergoing vasectomy is still a very uncommon in India or elsewhere.
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The poor one's go for more boys in hope that the boy may earn for family and the family may come out of the poverty in future. ;may be a good logic according to them to overcome poverty. What amuses me most is the creamy layer's longing for boy. For rich one's it is the issue of the property inheritance. If it’s a matter of property, then legally male dominates the society.
Secondly, the boy is the one who carries the family name. So there is a stupid yet strong cultural preference for sons, who will carry the family name, inherit ancestral property, care for parents in old age and light their fathers' funeral pyres.
DG, my Father stood firm behind my Mother to take this rather strong decision. Don't know if it is ok to say it here on an open forum, but he was the one who had taken the decision of Vasectomy in order to control future births in family. Believe me, the male, undergoing vasectomy is still a very uncommon in India or elsewhere.
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