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  2. Son preference - Wikipedia

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    Son preference is the ancient and cross-cultural human preference for male (rather than female) offspring. Son preference has been demonstrated across all social classes, from "succession laws in royal families to land inheritance in peasant families." [1] Sons are considered both a status symbol and a genetic and economic competitive advantage ...

  3. Boy or girl paradox - Wikipedia

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    If he has two boys then that child must be a boy. But if he has a boy and a girl, that child could have been a girl. So seeing him with a boy eliminates not only the combinations where he has two girls, but also the combinations where he has a son and a daughter and chooses the daughter to walk with.

  4. Gomer (wife of Hosea) - Wikipedia

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    Hosea 1 relates how Hosea has three children, a son called Jezreel, a daughter Lo-Ruhamah and another son Lo-Ammi. All the names are described in the text as having symbolic meaning, reflecting the relationship between God and Israel. Jezreel is named after the valley of that name. Lo-Ruhamah is named to denote the ruined condition of the ...

  5. Twins in mythology - Wikipedia

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    Aegyptus and Danaus - Sons of Belus and Achiroe, a naiad daughter of Nile. Aeolus and Boeotus - Sons of Poseidon and Arne. Lycastus and Parrhasius - Sons of Ares and Phylonome, daughter of Nyctimus of Arcadia. Amphion and Zethus - Sons of Zeus by Antiope; Centaurus and Lapithes - Sons of Ixion and Nephele or Apollo and Stilbe.

  6. These are the pedophile symbols you need to know to protect ...

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    SEE ALSO: Mother horrified after learning what heart symbol on daughter's stuffed toy really meant A FBI document obtained by Wikileaks details the symbols and logos used by pedophiles to identify ...

  7. Lot's daughters - Wikipedia

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    The daughters of the biblical patriarch Lot appear in chapter 19 of the Book of Genesis, in two connected stories. In the first, Lot offers his daughters to a Sodomite mob; in the second, his daughters have sex with Lot without his knowledge to bear him children. Only two daughters are explicitly mentioned in Genesis, both unnamed.

  8. Sex allocation - Wikipedia

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    If parents could have two daughters for the same cost as one male because males took twice the energy to rear, parents would preferentially invest in daughters. Females would increase in the population until the sex ratio was 2 females: 1 male, meaning that a male could have twice the offspring a female could.

  9. Castor and Pollux - Wikipedia

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    Castor [a] and Pollux [b] (or Polydeuces) [c] are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi. [d]Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. [2]