Re: B Ark Colonist

Agreed.
But that was back when everyone thought it was the woman's fault if a
girl was born instead of a boy...

"K.H.Ranitzsch" wrote:
> 
> Not if you look at the historical record. In practice, it depends on
the
> tradition of the country of origin.  Neither America, Australia, South
> Africa nor Iceland (in Viking times) reckoned by matrilineal descent -
> unless teh child was born out of wedlock, but that usually carried a
heavy
> stigma.

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