Sounds a little weird. My father didn’t emphasize anything either way.
My grandfather had 6 boys and 3 girls when his wife died. The orphanage took the young ones. He hired my Grandma, a widow, to keep house for him so he could get his kids back. They eventually married and had 2 more children, my Dad and Aunt. My Grandfather had grown children near but my Aunt says they never saw one another. I used to ask questions of my Dad but was told, “We don’t talk about family.” He left when I was 8. They were weird people. I never met my Grandfather as he died in 1944.