Girls are Harder to Raise than Boys

Absolutely the answer is that a daughter is more difficult to raise. I have two sons, ages 18 and 19, and one daughter, age 17. The reason I answer this 100% a daughter is more difficult to raise is because of all the grey hairs my daughter has given me along with the ulcers, sleepless nights, anxiety, etc. My sons haven't brought those wonderful things to my life for the most part. Let me explain. It is about worry. I worry that my daughter will be preyed upon by a man in a violent and/or sexual way. Statistics bear out the fact that hundreds of women are vicitmized at the hands of men, known and unknown to them, sometimes even losing their lives. I don't have to worry about my sons in this regard. One is becoming a Marine officer and the other weight-lifts for enjoyment. They can obviously take care of themselves. I have watched too many true crime TV shows (maybe I should stop huh?) to not worry because each and every case I see, the young lady through no fault of her own winds up on the wrong end of foul play. It is statistically more likely that my daughter will not make it to adulthood than my sons. You get the point and to a parent this is unacceptable. I am supposed to out live all my children. Secondly, the sexual thing and pregnancy. Again girls have much more to risk and much more to lose in the event of an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy. Girls are much tougher. We have to worry what the boys are pressuring the girls to do and what is going on at school. Girls younger and younger are becoming sexually active. They are mere children even as younhg as middle school when they lose their virginity. You can teach your little girl to not give in to peer pressure but it is a difficult chanllenge when she is still in middle school and all her classmates and friends have already lost their purity. Anyone still think boys are more difficult? Then you have to agonize over the decision to put your baby girl on birth control and condone behavior you don't condone verusu becoming a grandmother much too soon. (and Juno didn't help matters. I saw that movie with my daughter who loved it and said as a junior in high school that that movie made her want to have a baby!) Boys harder???? No way. I will only concede one point that too many mothers who have young sons they have lost in iraq and Afghanistan can attest to that losing a son even in a glorified manner still leaves a gaping whole inside you and in your life and in this way sons are more difficult. That is my worry for my oldest son who has chosen a noble profession to serve his country as a Marine. I, however, do not want him to come home in a body bag. So on that one point I concede but now with women becoming medics in the midst of insurgency type warfare it is plausible I could lose my daughter this way. With all things considered I think girls are more difficult. What do you think?