Julie Jay: The science doesn’t lie - girls are easier to raise

In this very column, I have previously decried any difference between parenting boys and parenting girls as antiquated nonsense.

Having spent my life as a stand-up trying to find the funny in the gendered stereotypes, I am loath to perpetuate them by saying girls are somehow easier, but in a 180-degree turn of events, I have to admit the science doesn’t lie. And by science, I mean my limited experience dealing with my friends’ daughters versus my own rapscallions.

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