The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

The remark frames fatherhood in traditional, patriarchal terms: the “best thing” about being a dad is not primarily emotional intimacy or caregiving, but the continuation of one’s line through a male child—“a son and heir.” The phrasing suggests a view of family as legacy and succession, where a man’s identity and achievements are carried forward by an inheriting son. Read today, it can be taken as revealing of older social expectations around masculinity and lineage, and it may also be heard as inadvertently narrowing the meaning of parenthood by equating fulfillment with producing a male successor rather than valuing children regardless of gender.