RE: ProWritersHub (W-6) : Should the first born child of a family be male or female? _@sureway044
This is a good post. Your points are well made. The area I want to respond to is the part in which you said that relations will not "twist "things when there is a male firstborn in a family. This is not quite the position. Things were so bad for a family when it comes to a deceased estate when there is no male issue at all. The female children were disinherited but it is no longer the case. The Courts have decided that female children have right to inherit the father's property. What matters is not the sex that comes first but the training and preparedness to fit into the position of the parents when they are no more . Will a family scatter if a firstborn dies? Another child will step into the position. The firstborn cannot rule the family alone. Other siblings will assist for her to succeed. One person alone does not run a family. We should not split our hairs over this? Thank you.
Very well , so much like your perspective on that . What I meant don't necessarily touching inheritance , about normal male family meeting as concerns whole (extended or compound family from main root) family traced from first generation. Depending the culture . Most family host such meetings with only male children , that make up per heads count of existing families within the whole family concept.
Female child though a family that has no male child , when the father or head of such nuclear family is alive would be attending such meeting . But when he is no more , the daughters get married out and even not yet married . They are not permitted to attend such meetings.
But , in case which the family first child is a female child follows by others . Among which male child can get count . They have no problems at all on such whole family concept tradition. As the first daughter would be guided by father to further help the young male child concerns when he get grown up . Perhaps he passed on to joined his ancestors any moment sudden.
So I didn't meant any discrimination on female gender roles , along male and other siblings within her nuclear family.