Is the preference to have a male-child, done out of love?

I don't think so, The preference for having kids continuously until a male-child is born is **not** driven out of love. It is driven by something much worse, dependency. Before, even the child is born the fate is decided for him that he will becomes this, he will earn this much. Have seen so many people here and on other subreddits talking about having kids until male child is born, but they only talk about co-relation and not the causation.