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It is true partly because your daughters are, part of being female, caring, nurturing, and will be there when you are older.  The sons, however, usually do not have the affinity for these traits, mostly being born male.  I know others will disagree, and think this sexist, however, it is more biological and less of being sexist. 

My dad was the number one man in my life-even during the times I thought I disliked him........this above statement is true.........

I think that it depends on the family members. You often see a son or daughter who is closer to the in-law than s/he is to their own family member. After marriage, the family changes for sure, especially these days when families no longer live in the same city but are often spread out in various cities or even countries.

I hope this saying is not true with my two sons.  I have been married for 18 years to a wonderful woman that loves my parents and thinks just as much of my mother as she does her own mother.  I also think the same of her father as my own father.  In the Bible, the book of Ruth says....  Where you lodge I will lodge, your family will be my family.......    God joined 2 as 1.    

my brother's wife rules the roost. They have to do everything her way . It's been that way since they got married in 1968. They had her parents be the God Parents for the first child, so I thought I would be the God Mother for their 2nd child, but no......it had to be her sister and her husband.

Our daughter lives four blocks away. Our son lives on the other side of the world. Enough said?