Daughters

Daughter is the term used for the female offspring in relation to her parents. It is the feminine version of the word son, which is the term used for male offspring. The word daughter also has several other connotations attached to it. One of these being that the term daughter can also be used in reference to female descendancy or consanguinity. It can also be used as a term of endearment coming from an elder.

A daughter is a female offspring; a girl, woman, or female animal in relation to her parents. Daughterhood is the state of being someone's daughter. The male counterpart is a son. Analogously the name is used in several areas to show relations between groups or elements.

In patriarchal societies, daughters often have different or lesser familial rights than sons. A family may prefer to have sons rather than daughters because the daughters are subjected to female infanticide. In some societies it is the custom for a daughter to be 'sold' to her husband, who must pay a bride price. The reverse of this custom, where the parents pay the husband a sum of money to compensate for the financial burden of the woman, is found in societies where women do not labour outside the home, and is referred to as dowry.

In the United States, the birth rate is 105 sons to 100 daughters which has been the natural birth rate since the 18th century. About 80 percent of prospective adoptive parents from the US will choose a girl over a boy.

When viewing how daughters are being treated in the family-role, most are held at high expectations because they have more responsibility. Daughters have the role of daddy’s little girl which means that the daughter has to do whatever possible to fulfill the expectation that a father has for the daughter. Which is more difficult for the daughter because of her gender. Being a woman gives the abilities to have to work for something ten times more than a man. Especially in a family business, there are more pressures to a girl. “The roles assigned to the daughters by their fathers and by the daughters themselves ranged from the role of daddy's little girl, which stressed her fragile and defenseless position within the family and the necessity of "pleasing daddy," to that of a tough and independent manager in the business.” (pg. 37,Dumas). This explains how much more work a daughter has to put in order to have a higher stand in the business. Additionally, it stated by Rosenblatt, de Mik, Anderson, and Johnson, “However, it is possible that the tensions resulting from role carryover are even stronger for daughters than they are for sons, since sons have been socialized to join the business and are seen as the eventual successor ( 1985).”

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