Nhumbu mukadzi mukuru hairevi chayadya.

What it means

In Shona kinship, sons remain within the family and carry its name forward, while daughters usually marry into another home, so within their birth family they come to be regarded, relatively, as visitors.

What it means

Even though a father also plays a part in raising a child, a crying child instinctively calls for its mother, showing the especially close bond between mother and child.