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Since men can father more children than women can bear, the numerical ratio of fathers to mothers is skewed in favor of mothers. Another way of looking at it is
by pcrh 7y ago
Since men can father more children than women can bear, the numerical ratio of fathers to mothers is skewed in favor of mothers. Another way of looking at it is that people are more likely to share a father than a mother.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoAll men combined have the same number of children as all women combined. A man can have more than a woman, but only if some other man has fewer. E.g., dies young.