When a daughter, along with her brother, shares father's happiness, sorrows, success and failures, why then, sharing fathers property with her brother is looked upon as a sign of greed by the society?
When I raised this issue with a few, most of them opined traditionally saying why should a daughter put her claim for a stake in father's property when her father has already married her off to the best of his capacity?
Yes, earlier the logic behind this approach was to justify the cost of marrying off the daughters. As there was no such expenses being incurred in case of boys - no higher education - the guards of society wanted to ensure even distribution of fathers' wealth.
However, with changing time, when both girls and boys are raised no differently - even in terms of cost of upbringing - why should daughters be deprived of inheriting what their fathers could save after making his children - both boys and girls - independent in life?
We know that a system being practiced for a long time gradually gets embedded in our genetics, making it psychologically mandatory for all generations to come.
But it's wrong in the current context, and parents of this generation - and down-the-line - must resist this psychological compulsion and ensure justice to both their sons and daughters in terms equal wealth distribution.
So daughters, in my opinion, should never be deprived of their share of inheritance! Do you agree with me?
When I raised this issue with a few, most of them opined traditionally saying why should a daughter put her claim for a stake in father's property when her father has already married her off to the best of his capacity?
Yes, earlier the logic behind this approach was to justify the cost of marrying off the daughters. As there was no such expenses being incurred in case of boys - no higher education - the guards of society wanted to ensure even distribution of fathers' wealth.
However, with changing time, when both girls and boys are raised no differently - even in terms of cost of upbringing - why should daughters be deprived of inheriting what their fathers could save after making his children - both boys and girls - independent in life?
We know that a system being practiced for a long time gradually gets embedded in our genetics, making it psychologically mandatory for all generations to come.
But it's wrong in the current context, and parents of this generation - and down-the-line - must resist this psychological compulsion and ensure justice to both their sons and daughters in terms equal wealth distribution.
So daughters, in my opinion, should never be deprived of their share of inheritance! Do you agree with me?
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