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To: TobagoJack who wrote (83213)11/15/2011 11:43:47 PM
From: Snowshoe2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 218482
 
FYI, worker ants are all females. Primary purpose of the males is to produce sperm. ;)

Here's a tiny matrilineal ethnic group in China that avoids the traditional Chinese ways...

Mosuo
en.wikipedia.org

Another particularly important result of this practice is the lack of preference for children of a particular sex. For example, in most cultures, a female joins the male partner's family upon getting married. The result is that if a couple has many female children, they will lose them after marriage, and have no one to care for them in old age; but if they have male children, their sons (and their sons' wives) will care for them. So, in poorer populations in particular, there is a strong preference for male children.

However, among the Mosuo, since neither the male nor female children ever leave the household, there is no particular preference for one gender over the other. The focus instead tends to be on maintaining some degree of sexual balance, having roughly the same proportion of males to females within a household. In situations that this becomes unbalanced, it is not uncommon for Mosuo to adopt children of the appropriate sex or even for two households to "swap" male and female children.

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