Why are parents more overprotective on their teenage daughters than on their sons?

I wondered about that when my kids were growing up...I decided that it was because if your daughter gets pregnant its your problem if your sons girlfriend gets pregnant its her parents problem! ... a bit selfish and as it happens my son 's girlfriend did find herself pregnant at 16,had a daughter at 17 they lived with us from her being 3 mths until baby was 9 mths then baught a house of their own...they are still together 14 years later ,now have two beautiful daughters and are getting married on sept 10th! So my theory was a bit of key wasnt it?

Maybe the answer is that boys are more capable of looking after themselves than girls ....... Just prove to your parents that you are responsible enough to be able to go out with the lads...good luck.

Culture norms play a large role in this, so depending upon where you are, the precises causes may vary and be more or less severe. Traditionally, a family's honour may be bound up with the virtue (meaning virginity) or their daughters, so that would provide a greater incentive to keep track of their daughters than their sons. Men's virtue has, so far as I know, never been held to be tarnished or stained by "illicit" sexual unions in the way that woman's are frequently held to be.In the western world, parents may be more overprotective of their daughters than their sons because of a desire to protect them.

Rape happens to both men and women, but female vicitms, particularly when the victims are in their teens or adulthood, outnumber male victims. Even if you think that you have control of a situation, things can spiral out of control far more quickly than most people would like to believe.

The reason parents are like that, because it a generation thing. Their parent done it to them and they're going to do it to there childrens. However some parents of today are so suck back in the days.

These days and times are totally different, you have to watch your sons as well as your daughters. Now the daughter are little different them the boys. When I just made the statement different days and times, it is.

The world is a mass confusion out there. Yes your parents can't always be with you, but they can give you the motivation and encouragement to grow, understanding and the knowhow and trust in you. Listen they are your parents they are concern and loving.

However like I said they have to worried about the males today as well.

Its not only parents you will find that usually brothers are over protective too. The chances of a girl running into a situation she cant handle, such as rape far outway the chance of the same thing happening to a son.

There is absolutely a double standard in this country. It isn't socially acceptable for women or girls to do the same as men, even if we say it is. We all talk a good talk, but don't walk the walk.

Girls are more protected because they are considered the weaker sex; and for a few reasons:1. Girls can get raped.2. Girls can get pregnant3.

Girls are usually less prepared for physical altercations.4. Girls are taken advantage of more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.