Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 98:2

ואיבעית אימא ר' יהודה והכי קאמר האב אינו חייב במזונות בתו וכל שכן לבנו הא מצוה בבנו איכא וקל וחומר לבנות והא דקתני בתו הא קא משמע לן דאפילו בתו חובה ליכא

If you wish I might say that the mishnah accords with R. Judah and this is what he meant: A father is not obligated to sustain his daughter, and all the more so his son. But there is a moral duty [to sustain] one’s son and all the more so his daughters; and the only reason why it mentions his daughter was to teach us this: That even [the sustenance of] his daughter is not a legal obligation.

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