Why is there a serious patriarchal ideology in some rural areas?

One, patriarchal thinking at work

In my grandfather's generation, I would rather have all the sons than all the daughters, because of the traditions of the old ancestors, to be passed on. The ancients were very much in favor of filial piety. And the ancients treat the offspring requirements is to have to have the fragrance of the inheritance, can not be cut off from their own family fragrance, this is unfilial behavior. If the woman in the family did not have a son, she might be difficult for her mother-in-law to see. Sometimes they would even call the matriarch of that family an old hen who can't lay eggs.

In the eyes of the older generation, as long as this family does not have a son, no matter what the daughter-in-law does is not right, patriarchal thinking is really too serious. So some people hold this kind of, must have a son of the idea, no matter how the family's domestic situation, is to have a son until the end of the birth of a son. And in the countryside, the biggest responsibility for women is to be responsible for the birth of children, regardless of the willingness of the women, those who are very poor, but the more children.

Second, no good contraceptive measures

In the countryside, many people do not have a sense of contraception, think that after a woman is pregnant, either give birth to, or abortion, did not think from the male side. It is the woman who suffers from the beginning to the end. The suffering of childbirth, this is a necessary path in a woman's life. Clinical women are mostly the equivalent of having one foot in the ghost gate, whether they die or live depends on the individual's destiny.

Because in the countryside births are usually called to help the midwife to come over to help deliver the child, using traditional techniques and experience, unlike in the city there is a clean birth surgery platform, as well as a variety of high-tech products, as well as a wealth of experience in the care of doctors and nurses. If you've read Xiao Hong's "The Field of Life and Death," you'll know that a woman giving birth is a very scary thing, but men generally don't use birth control, believing that it's natural for a woman to give birth, even if there are already many children in the family.

Three, the blind pursuit of more children

Many elders believe that the more children in a family, the better, you can enjoy the happiness of the family. Because in the opinion of my grandfather's generation, if there are more children in the family, there will be more laborers in the family in the future, and the whole family can rely on these children to revitalize. Thinking that having many children and grandchildren was a blessed phenomenon, and that the status of the matriarch of the family would be respected by her husband, many of those women who had been brainwashed by their husbands or their mothers-in-law felt that it was a good thing for them to be able to give birth to children, and to put a woman's nature to its best use. But they feel that the children they give birth to are fine as long as they can support them, even if they go out and work a few more jobs.

The country has been playing the birth of boys and girls are the same policy, sometimes have so many sons is not necessarily good, there may be daughters than while the son is still filial piety, some of the son raised in the family, because of the wrong mode of education, leading to their own children to raise children character are the kind of lazy nibbling the old man, so that is, sometimes the birth of female children is also quite good, it does not have to be a son. And isn't the country practicing family planning? Try not to overgrow, or in the end, but also to pay the fine, and finally suffer or their own.