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January 23rd, 2016, 12:44 PM #111Dream Vet
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Late to the game here, but statistics of gender ratio is such a fascination of mine.
It DOES show the actual number of mixed families at 2-kid is ABOVE predicted amounts, so I don't know if that was mentioned somewhere else in the thread (since I skipped ahead to reply).
I'm one of three girls, and the entire generation of my maternal grandmother's family (so, my mom's generation on that side), had the following family dynamics: BG BG GG GGG GGG GGGG G (my immediate family is one of those GGG sets). Lots of girls; I have felt "doomed" to only ever have girls because of it (though now amongst this generation, the progeny so far is: GB B BB BB G (I'm the single G so far). One of those BB sets is a cousin who had IVF for both of her boys.
My husband, though, comes from a family of BBBG. All the Bs were conceived close together, and the first B was conceived after SIX years of infertility, failed IVF, etc. (back in the 70s).
Long story short: anecdotally, I feel I DO know many more mixed gender families than I do know same gender, even amongst my own family... it's just looking like, statistically, me and my generation of cousins were a huge anomaly?!
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January 23rd, 2016, 12:49 PM #112Dream Vet
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January 23rd, 2016, 02:54 PM #113Swaying Advice Coach
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My grandma is one of 6 girls and 2 boys (the two boys were the youngest only after all the girls were born). In the following generations there were some families with all girls, some with all boys, some with blends. My husband's dad is one of 5 boys, 1 girl, and again it's been a blend in the successive generations. I know it's easy to go back and look for "genes" or whatever but it simply doesn't work that way. There are not "boy genes" or "girl genes". Genes are weirdly smart, and the smartest move for them to make is NOT to link themselves to one gender only, but to be flexible and stick with whatever gender offspring has the best chance of surviving to pass down genes in the future based on cues from the environment.
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January 23rd, 2016, 09:39 PM #114Dream Vet
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Oh yeah, I don't think it's necessarily a gene thing so much as me dealing with my own anxieties about it that make me feel "doomed" for only girls. It's just interesting statistically to note large families with same sexes all the way down, because most findings seem to point to that being pretty uncommon!
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