My Son, My Heir

The song “Anything Like Me” by American country singer Brad Paisley epitomizes the universal craving for a male offspring, especially by fathers. When he went with his wife to check on the sex of the child they were expecting, he at first didn’t care about what the sex of child would be saying “as long as he or she was healthy”. “But then the doctor pointed to a corner of the screen” and asked him that he hopes “he knows what that means.” He realized his wife was carrying a baby boy and imm...