daughters are more loved than sons
By mariamac
@mariamac (145)
India
February 7, 2012 5:41am CST
I am the only daughter of my parents and i have two brothers and i so i guess based on own personal experience i feel daughters are more loved by parents than sons. I have my girlfriends too who feel the same. Now that i am married and have a daughter of my own. i too feel i love my daughter more than my son, its not that i and my hubby love my son less but its just that i tend to be 0.5% more caring towards my daughter. Daughters share a special vibe, a special something in them which sons miss somewhere, i don't know if i am able to express it right here. Both my kids are loved and cared equally but somewhere that just that little extra care for my daughter. Does anybody share the same feeling as i do or is it only me?. Though some of my friends differ with me, but then the ones who differ appear to share that extra care for their sons. So i think it may not necessarily be this daughter thing and that it could be different for each one. What do you say?
10 responses
@MissPiggy (1748)
• Indonesia
8 Feb 12
Hey, I'm also the only daughter and I have two older brothers! :D I read your discussion and I try to think something to prove you wrong that the daughters are loved more. But after thinking a while, I found nothing. Lol. But I think it's not like we're loved more than our brothers. I think it's more like they protect us more. When I was little, my brothers teased me a lot at home, but they protected me like hell outside. Lol. My dad is also the same. I couldn't go out with friends until I was in High School, not even to a friend's birthday party! :D I'm really my dad's daughter. Sometimes I feel like I wanted to be free a little bit. But when I was in University, my brothers convince my parents to loose me a bit and they did. Moreover when I have worked. Now, everything is getting better because I have gained my family's trust, but there's one problem. I can't get a boyfriend easily because my dad and my brother always stand my way. :( Lol.
@shylade (3132)
• Philippines
8 Feb 12
Hi mariamac! i'm the eldest among the brood of three. i feel that my parents do much favor for me not because they love me more but maybe because i'm the eldest daughter. i observe that my father is more in favor on his daughters rather than our brother but my mother is another way around. but its not more loved but more favorite :).
now i have a son and i still want to have a daughter. i love my son dearly that i don't think if i'm going to have a daughter, i will love him less and my daughter is more. anyway, as long as you are in good terms with your siblings then there's nothing to worry about. but oftentimes, favoritism leads to behavioral disorders of the not so favorite one that's why i'm really against it. so as much as possible if the time comes i will have another son or daughter we will try to be fair to all of them.
@xien2xien (1382)
• Philippines
8 Feb 12
I'm also an only daughter and i feel the same way like you but somehow i just notice that its not that we are being love the most by our parents it true that they care far more for us because in my opinion i admit that girls need a lot more guidance and security since being a girl intends to be more weak than most man, my parents always told me to even take care also to myself, girls are prone to rape and always being under the power of men so we girls need more protection than most men
@Triple0 (1904)
• Australia
8 Feb 12
That's kinda similar to my family, daughters tend to be more cherished compared to sons. I'm actually the only daughter in my family too, I have no siblings and my dad always wanted a daughter, he was lucky to have me. 
Based on my other relatives, it's always the daughters who stick with their parents, the sons usually just leave their parents behind and move on. They say daughters are much easier to ask favors too and are willing to help out more than sons. But that's my family though, but it seems generally, daughters are more cherished a most families.
Based on my other relatives, it's always the daughters who stick with their parents, the sons usually just leave their parents behind and move on. They say daughters are much easier to ask favors too and are willing to help out more than sons. But that's my family though, but it seems generally, daughters are more cherished a most families. 
@sayo13 (414)
• India
8 Feb 12
well i think that girls do need to be raised a bit differently than guys.
girls are not going to stay with you all through your life they are they are given special pampering in my society and country where sons stay with their parents but daughters are married to someone house.
that is why in my society girls are treated as someone else's property and given more care and love since they are not going to stay for long with their parents.after marriage they have their own family and home to look after.
daughters will remain daughter all through their life but son will be son till he is married.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
8 Feb 12
I have to disagree with you. I don't feel like I'm more loved then my brothers are. They are both older then me, we are all loved to the same degree just in different ways. Sure I'm the only girl next to my mom and there is certain things that my parents protected me from that they didn't my brother because they where boys. I have one daughter and she is the oldest of my kids. We are having a second child if its a boy or girl I won't love that child any different then my daughter especially if its a boy. I wouldn't never want my child to feel like I love one more then the other because I don't. I love them all equal in different ways and those are the ways that they need to be loved in.
@myzhian (584)
• Philippines
8 Feb 12
Mothers or parents are more protective on their daughters, because girls are so mean and boys are more dominant in nature. They care for daughter to keep them away from any unusual casualties and protect them from any forms of abuse and danger. If a daughter is good enough to appreciate limitations and guidance then you could eventually develop a good parent and daughter relationship, girls needs more attention and emotional support. While boys are more aggressive,decisive, and persistent for freedom and independence in life, and they need more guidance and moral support. Understanding is more needed in boys cases than girls.
@cash4cards (140)
• United States
7 Feb 12
Scince i only have a son i guess i cant really say. but in theory i would hope not..maybe
What u r thinking is you are more sensitive an lovey dovey. im raising a man so i dont make
a big deal over bumps an bruises...an its more of a man up big guy...lol kinda thing. girls
in general are more cuddly an emotional. so i can see that. i was a little girl raised by my dad alone
so i was raised more like a boy. but i cant see actually loving one child more than another.
i can see personallities could make u closer with one over the other....or a diffrrent bond with
Each one
