How terrible is China's preference for sons over daughters?

The phenomenon of son preference generally occurs in rural areas with relatively backward economy and ideas, especially the concept of "raising children to prevent old age and carrying on the family line" is deeply rooted. As long as women don't have sons, they will be gossiped by men, mother-in-law, the whole family and even the whole village, and accused of being useless. If you can't have a son, it's your fault. You are ashamed of your ancestors and deserve to be reviled.

We now feel that the idea of son preference has become a thing of the past. In fact, this phenomenon still exists in many places. This may also happen in our real life. I am a cousin. She is twenty years older than me. She married in a small mountain village far from home. There are eight brothers and sisters in her husband's family, which really realizes the slogan of "many hands make light work". After she got married, she began to have children, but she gave birth to four girls in succession and was accused and abused by her family. The fifth child is still a daughter, and it is not a son until the seventh child. In fact, I really don't understand what my aunt did. Maybe I can't escape the mission of her family, or I won a sigh of relief to prove that I can have a son.

My sisters dropped out of school and went out to work before finishing junior high school, because they really couldn't afford the life at home. Instead, I used the money I saved to buy milk and beautiful clothes for my brother. All my sisters don't read books. The reason is that their daughter will get married sooner or later. Even if they read more books, it is useless. It is better to go out to work early to earn some money to supplement the family. When my sister was less than 16 years old, the family found someone to marry her. It is said that the other family is in good condition. My sister continued my mother's fate. She got married because she had a daughter, and her mother-in-law was cruel to her. The second child was born as a daughter. The elder sister got postpartum depression and jumped into the fish pond at home with her little daughter who was under the full moon.

I just hope that fewer women are abused by this patriarchal thinking. Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you. No one knows the pain better than those who have experienced it. It is also to let go of those women who are in hot water.