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sl8

(13,786 posts)
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 10:27 AM Jul 2019

Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born

From https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/mayor-offers-reward-to-first-couple-to-have-a-boy-in-village-where-only-girls-are-born-6892

Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
LIFE
NICK WESTERBY AND JULIA ROGOYSKA
JULY 24, 2019


Over the last nine years, only girls have been born in the village of Miejsce Odrzańskie.
MDP i OSP Miejsce Odrzańskie/Facebook


A local mayor is offering locals a reward if they have a baby boy after it emerged that in the last nine years only girls have been born in their village.

The village of Miejsce Odrzańskie, in the south of Poland near the border with the Czech Republic, has less than 300 hundred inhabitants, and most of them are female.

The last boy to be born in the village, and who still lives there, was 12 years ago.

Tomasz Golasz, head of the volunteer fire brigade – which is also staffed mainly by women – said: “It has been going on for several decades.

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Regarding the source, from Wikipedia:
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First News is a UK newspaper for young readers. It is published in a full colour tabloid format every Friday, and aims to present current events and politics in a child-friendly format, alongside news on entertainment, sport and computer games. The paper is aimed at seven to fourteen-year-olds, and regularly features written work from readers of that age. The paper's weekly circulation in 2017 was 79,362.[1]

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Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born (Original Post) sl8 Jul 2019 OP
I'm guessing in that small gene pool that an issue with AJT Jul 2019 #1
That's pretty much what I thought. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2019 #2
Or Y sperm that just don't have... 3catwoman3 Jul 2019 #3

AJT

(5,240 posts)
1. I'm guessing in that small gene pool that an issue with
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 10:33 AM
Jul 2019

sperm has become dominant. Bring in men from outside the town. But hey, girls rule!

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