₦airaland Forum

The biological/reproductive importance of a female child is entirely different from the male off-spring's.

Male children (in general) roam and spread their seed: whereas females (not always) stay a little closer to home and are cared for as breeding stock.

A man loves his daughter as he loves his chattel property (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property): but men (in general) understand that male children will leave.

Having said all that: the reader might enjoy Shakespeare's "King Lear" or the story of Galileo and his very special relationship with his daughter who was a cloistered nun.

Quantity words, as in the case of "more" and "less" love for a daughter vs a son don't work well. The difference between the love we have for our daughters vs our sons as is night vs day. But we treasure them both: don't we?

What we really need to do is to look at the big chunks of personality that are missing from men who don't have children. Then we must turn to our wives and thank them for letting us become fathers in the first place. Without our wives - when we die we turn to dust with no one to remember us.

See Gustav Pope's painting of King Lear's three daughters: which one would you love? Hmmm. See Trinidadian actor Don Warrington who just played King Lear in Manchester UK.