They are more negligent of their duties toward her. Relationship between a mother and her children, including her sons, is normally confined within the walls of the family home. A child may be unkind, disobedient, and even insulting to his mother without anybody outside the home knowing anything about it. He continues to enjoy the respect and friendliness of other people. If, on the other hand, he is unkind to his father, the likelihood of people in the neighbourhood getting to know about it is much higher.
Social embarrassment is an inevitable result.
Hence, there is a definite social inhibition against showing disrespect towards one s father. There is secondly the element of physical strength. A father s strength may deter his undutiful child from going too far in his unkindness. There is no such deterrent in the case of the mother. What normally happens if a child abuses his mother is that the mother, aware that she cannot match her son s physical strength, prays God to punish him for his unkindness.