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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: How do you get a boy?
Message-ID: <5205@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 15:16:18 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.5205
Posted: Mon Apr 22 15:16:18 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Apr-85 06:33:57 EST
References: <1660SGL@PSUVM> <1880@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <70@cadtec.UUCP> <2361@mit-hermes.ARPA> <1914@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Reply-To: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard brower)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Summary: 

In article <1914@sdcrdcf.UUCP> dennisg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Dennis E. Griesser) writes:
>  During wartime, people marry at a younger age.  The young mothers, being
>  strong and healthy, provide fertilized ova -- the greater number of which,
>  as said before, are male -- a good chance for implantation and survival.
>  So they tend to give birth to a higher percentage of males.  Furthermore,

Women do not produce fertilized ova, it takes a man to fertilize an ova.  The
sex of the child is determined by which male sperm fertilized the egg, and not
by any characteristic of the egg.

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Richard A. Brower		Fortune Systems
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