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“Daughters provoke parental strife” implies causality not present in TFA. Also, as a survival of an abusive home, “daughters provoke...” sounds like blaming ch
by softwaredoug 6y ago
“Daughters provoke parental strife” implies causality not present in TFA.
Also, as a survival of an abusive home, “daughters provoke...” sounds like blaming children for their parents dysfunction. Maybe that wasn’t the intent of the OP. However kids blaming themselves for their parents problems is a pathology many kids that went through these situations have to work to overcome. Any culpability belongs to the grown ups who couldn’t resolve their issues and put the kids first.
- karmakaze 6y agoI did know a family that fit this profile. The daughter challenged the parents and the parents, specifically the mother couldn't deal with it well. Rather than divorce, the daughter went to a private school, then to live with relatives in another country.
- fogof 6y agoThis seems to me like a rare "natural experiment" where correlation implies causality. Because whether a child is a son or daughter is essentially random, it's hard to imagine a confounding factor causing both daughters and divorce.
- drjasonharrison 6y agoI think that the remaining factors will be the "difficulty" of parenting the behaviour of sons vs daughters in contrast to the difficulty a daughter or son experiences being parented. That is while you can use the sex of the child as an independent variable, you still need to explain why it has this effect.