Will the in-laws in rural areas prefer sons to daughters change?

This idea is hard to change. As rural parents-in-law, they are "very" mature people, and their personalities and concepts have been formed. It is difficult to remold their ideas. This kind of in-laws, even if they are mainly verbal, have a decent face, but they also show the concept of son preference from time to time in the affairs of ordinary people. For example, my mother is very kind to her grandchildren, but my daughter-in-law can find that she prefers boys to girls. Fathers often have granddaughters, while mothers have almost only grandchildren, and few granddaughters. It was my daughter-in-law who reminded me of this, and I found out that it was really like this. It can be seen how powerful the concept of parents' preference for sons is, and there is really no way!

One of my parents grew up together. He is the youngest of the three sisters. The son preference in his family is serious, so serious that people are speechless. For example, his wife gave birth to a daughter on her first child. In those years, his mother often quarreled with his wife. It can be said that she is a bit of a bully and her mother-in-law is very strong. However, after a few years, the second child was a boy, and it was "turned upside down". The little wife doesn't have to take the initiative to "smash". When she was young, her mother immediately lowered her posture and obeyed her daughter-in-law. It can be seen that as a parent, she knows that she is wrong. In my impression, his mother has always been a strong woman, but she lost face because of her preference for boys, which shows how much her family values boys.

Regarding the concept of son preference, in the minds of many rural parents, it is a "knot" to put it bluntly. This is related to the concepts of "carrying on the family line" and "there are three kinds of unfilial, and no posterity is great". Under this concept, such people feel that without sons, "mixing people" is boring and has no motivation. In fact, the more people live, the more they understand, and the concept is quietly changing. "Mixed people" lies in themselves, and it is good for children to honor their parents. Fortunately, happiness lies in yourself. Moreover, saying that "people die like lights go out" really has little to do with future generations. Life has children, and if you don't have children, don't force it. If we persist, it will only increase our troubles, destroy family relations and affect family harmony, and the loss will outweigh the gain.