Why Indian womens eager to have a male child instead of female child of their own community;?

Question

On male child's arrival whole the family including womens cheer up but on female child arrival no such cheers are seen in general.

Answer 1

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In India it is believed that if there is a female child then she is only with the parents till her marriage. They believe that only a male child is going to be with them forever.

Also, it is mostly widely accepted that a female child is a expenditure to the family and the male child is a asset.

Although both the above are completely wrong.

Again the way in which the society treats a female is different from the way it treats a male.

So having gone through these in their life .... women feel for their child (female) ... not that they are not happy .. they are happy .. it is her child but still considering the difficulties that it has to face in this world ... the mother is worried.

Answer 2

Any woman always wants to be a "mother" irrespective of the gender of the child, it is not her but the "inlaws" or the "husband" who gradually build this desire to have a male child to run the family name etc.The way she cannot actually change the sex of the unborn child, she cannot change the thinking of the family, she is in such a dilema with the traditional/unconcerned surroundings, she is forced to think only of a male child. Motherhood is risking her own life to give birth to another life, but it hardly matters to the society where male child is given first preference.

Answer 3

Her legal stand in the family as a daughter-in-law is jeopardy. So at least as a mother of the son it gives certain moral courage to her.

Answer 4

hope it will change one day

Answer 5

somehow what I feel that being a woman mother faces so much in the society that she wish not to have a girl so that she also will have to face all those boundations our society has for females

Answer 6

It is an outdated and stupid concept based on a society where only men work and women sit at home and bear children and take care of the household. Especially in today's nuclear society, I strongly believe a girl is much easier to bring up, much more loyal to her parents and will give them much more emotional and physical support later in life.

Education is equal, even the son doesn't stay with the parents either way, so how does it matter?

Answer 7

The boy may help support the family in old age and the girl would not be in a position to do that as she would most likely be married.
In a country with little government support, having some source of income in later life is very important to people.

Answer 8

In Indian culture, it's important to have a son to carry on the family's name.

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