I hit the paywall so couldn't read the whole thing but the last visible sentence about deeper quarrels about how to raise a teenage son vs daughter make sense.

I hit the paywall so couldn't read the whole thing but the last visible sentence about deeper quarrels about how to raise a teenage son vs daughter make sense. One easiest stressor I can imagine is teenage pregnancy, or the threat thereof. If my son is going to be a rebellious teenage idiot, that's hard. If my daughter, then so much more stressful. Both because the consequences (pregnancy) are harsher and because there are way more people preying on women. It's probably much harder on the marriage to have this kind of stress.