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I specificalfly mean the male to female ratio of the children

And consider you don't have to be a child of the family head to be part of the 10 great families, so while children of the family heads are rare (except for probably Bloodmadder and Koon has a bunch of kids but they are probably ,on the scale of the tower, still very special) the families probably have a bunch of them (although some may not be recognized as such)

So i thought a bit about Illarde and how the progress with her children.

The page says that if a child is born the male is invited to the family and so a new branch is born. But that probably doesn't mean that the father can have more children with other women who  are automatically part of that family and if his child with Illarde is a boy the branch probably ends there automatically (unless the child's children (Illarde's grandchildren) are somewhat considered to be part of the family, but with the low standing of males, you would assume that they'd make it their task in life to have a baby girl to raise the standing of your branch and that wouldn't fit with the rarity expressed in the post).

That might also be the reason we hear so much about great family members raping women in the middle area and then the work shop used those kids for experiment, since they were not allowed to have them in the first place.