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I thought the reason they wanted boys was that they were the ones who had the means to support their parents in old age?
by arockwell 18y ago
I thought the reason they wanted boys was that they were the ones who had the means to support their parents in old age?
- emmett 18y agoPerhaps that was the historical reason boys are high prestige, but modern China has huge opportunities for women (who "Hold up half the sky", as Mao put it). China was a society of prima genitor, like Europe; boys are high prestige because they carry on your family name. All praise to the eldest son!