Only Daughters? So What?

So, I was watching Vaseegara Tamil movie (I love Vijay's comedy in the movie) and there is a scene where his character Boopathy tells Sneha's character Priya not to lie else she'll only have daughters.

I got freaking pricked - the saying 'if a king has 5 daughters, he'll become a pauper' stung my mind. 

I was reminded by my own birth story. After my mother had my sister, the neighbour aunty urged her to have a son. 9 years after my sister, I popped out, another daughter.  Luckily my parents stopped trying for a son.

Look parents, Indian parents, don't fret about only having 'potta kaluthai' (female donkeys) as your offspring. Just raise them as you would a son. Educate them up to having a job and not rush to marry them off ASAP, looking for America settled son-in-law. Allow them to build financial independence - in case shit happens, they won't kanna kassakikitu veetukku varan (cry and come home). They will be able to rebuild their own lives. Above everything, never tell daughters that eventually she'll go to another house after marriage. Don't sideline daughters like that.

Despite being told that they will go to another house, I know women who take care of their parents after their marriage because their brothers shunned the responsibility. Raising daughters equally with sons is important. In many Indian households, the discrimination starts from food - daughters are fed less than sons. Please don't do that.

In no way daughters are lesser than sons. Believe in daughters as much as you believe your sons. Don't have kids so that they will look after you in old age. Kids aren't your retirement plan.

You don't need a son to light up your funeral pyre - a daughter can do that just as well. Anyway, we cremate nowadays at electric cremation facilities. Yaaru vecha yenna? Saambal aana sari.

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