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Originally Posted by Toy Santa

IMO it more often happens the other way around - females (in general, of course) maintain stronger links with their family after leaving home than a lot of men do, and so after marriage / kids, it tends to be the maternal extended family that's more involved. . That's the way I've seen it work in the majority of cases, anyway.

its a throw back to when women were house wives. They didnt have an income and were therefore entirely reliant on the husband.