Scriptures suggest that, a person himself gets reborn as his own children, whether boy or girl. Having children is essential to pay the debt to ancestors (*Pitru runa*).

Usually female child would marry to another family lineage, while male child would continue the same family chain & values.

What is the terminology behind, when a *Pitru* is reborn as a girl or boy child?  
<sub> e.g. Does it mean that, being a girl they want to change the family values and being a boy they want to retain the family value system?</sub>

By this question, I wanted to understand:

 - What could be the reasons for many families insisting for a boy child
 - Why in some families, only girl children are born majorly