Commentary for Ketubot 97:11

איבעית אימא ר' מאיר והכי קאמר האב אינו חייב במזונות בתו והוא הדין לבנו הא מצוה בבתו איכא קל וחומר לבנים והאי דקתני בתו הא קמ"ל

If you wish I might say [that the author is] R. Meir, and this is what he means: A father is not obligated to sustain his daughter, and the same law applies to his son. But there is a moral duty in the case of his daughter and all the more so in the case of his sons; and the reason why his daughter was mentioned was to teach us this:

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