Why is there a double standard between boys and girls when it comes to parents setting rules?

There should really not be a gender-based double standard with how parents govern their male and female child relatives. Criminal activity and sexual activity can severely ruin the lives of both boys and girls; the fact that the girl can end up gestating a baby as a result of her sexual conduct is not a good reason to shift the scale.

Aside from the gestation capability, I think that the bias has to do with the archaic but pervasive perspective of girls being of greater docility and maturity that supposedly makes them easier to raise. Imagine the shock of a first-time parent when she finds that her daughter has become the Amazon that has her male classmates trembling in fear. There are heaps and heaps of scientific evidence that girls can be as violent and cruel as boys; it all comes down to the family government that is practiced as to the epilogue. Boys having a feminine aspect and girls having a masculine aspect . . . some people base their entire identities on rejecting this prospect even with all the scientific evidence supporting it. There has been progress in accepting girls with masculine proclivities as reflected in the term »tomboy«; unfortunately, there is a not at all small distance before the same can be said of boys with feminine proclivities. I once had a Dell Dimension 2350 whose 256 MB of RAM I quadrupled to its maximum of 1,024 MB along with interchanging both optical drives . . . that is something associated with males. Am I any less of a male if I am also not so horrible at cooking and cleaning? No way!!! This is known as »handling your business« or »taking responsibility for yourself« and should not be restricted to one gender.

There are some cultures in the world where the »alpha male - beta female« dynamic is practiced even if the wife is better aligned to handle the situation than the husband is. I think that it is in this dynamic that the feminine in boys and the masculine in girls is lost in the lurch in favor of the masculine in boys and the feminine in girls. I am not sure of its veracity, but there are some indigenous Asian families that arrange suitors for their daughters in order to seal commercial and political negotiations. The daughter in this case would be the avatar of the family; any flaws on the part of the daughter are viewed as being those of the family. Hope that helps!!!

It all goes back to when girls could easily get pregnant and what this meant to the family. Nowadays the double standard still holds because 1) girls are still physically weaker and many not get away from trouble as easily as boys and 2) boys are still more apt to harass/attack/rape girls than the other way around. Otherwise, rules should be about the same.

There shouldn't be double standards. It's not fair to raise boys one way and girls another.

I think that when parents do that, in many ways it's unconscious. In our society even these days, women are more restricted than men. We're expected to "follow the rules" more, and that trickles down to even how toddlers are treated. For example, if a girl toddler in the sandbox smashes someone else's sandcastle, her mother will scold and say, "We don't do that!" But if a boy toddler does the same, the mother may shrug and say, "Boys will be boys."

Parents really need to be aware if they hold these deep-seated prejudices. It's not fair to girls, and not good for society.

It's very simple: no matter how empowered women become, men will always be the predators and women the prey. Most virile young men between 13-28 will sleep with just about any non 150+ woman that doesn't look like a complete dog and the younger the guy, the more ruthless and careless he is.

boys don't come home pregers