^ i have heard this is where the "not wanting any daughters" stems from.
In this day in age....people need to let go of that mentality. In some instances daughters have far surpassed their male siblings....financially, academically, socially, intellectually, career wise...list goes on and on. Daughters in many families are also the main support...the pillar, if you will of their family. When their daughters get married the family feels a huge loss.
So many people say..."poor you for having daughters" but in the end...it's often the daughters that are always there for their parents while the sons are busy with their own families and career.
That depends on what day and age you are talking about. That mentality is not often found In the west or in modern cities in pakistan, where daughters have the opportunity to prove themselves academically, financially career wise etc. but in the majority of places in pak, where these opportunities do not exist, its abit much to expect people to rid themselves of such mentality just like that, where the sole source of influence of these views is generally society.
Hence once again, the partricarch society is largely at fault, where a daughters' role is limited to the household and thier other needs are not generally acknowledged or catered for.
There is a lame saying in punjabi that refelects this notion, if i can recall it correctly:
Hik dhee jammi, doa puchnRa patiya
roughly meaninly, first the newborn is a girl and on top of that, everyone rushes to see her (in other words overdoing it).