I am very lucky in my family that they actually take the opposite approach to girls. I had not been expecting this, but as I had always wanted a daughter, I said one time to my father in law that “a daughter is best”. To my total shock, he replied immediately “of course”, as if that was the obvious answer. I later discovered that this is partly due to their Islamic beliefs, whereby having a girl is very good luck and if you have three or more daughters (I believe this is the correct number), you are basically fast-tracked to heaven! I have seen this in practice as well, because they all fawn over the little girls in the family, whilst the boys have to run around and entertain themselves!