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How do you think about the old traditional idea of "favoring sons over daughters"?

The idea of favoring sons over daughters has persisted in China for thousands of years, and many people may think that the idea of favoring sons over daughters no longer exists, but in fact it is still eroding the minds of a large portion of the population.

Some people feel that the current low fertility rate and the post-1990s thinking has a lot to do with the post-1990s are reluctant to give birth to a boy because of the economic pressure of raising a boy, and most of the post-1990s are no longer as traditional as their parents, so they will also choose to make themselves more comfortable.

Domestic patriarchal ideology still exists, on the one hand, because so far the rural population is still larger than the urban, even if the conversion rate of rural to urban is increasing, but the shackles of the mind is not a few years can be changed over.

On the other hand, it's because attitudes can't be changed in one or two generations, but they can influence people in a subtle way, starting from childhood. This is compounded by the fact that China is such a large country, and there are big regional differences, which makes it even more difficult to change social attitudes.

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