Performing artists cultivate epic traditions from generation to generation, learning, performing and transmitting techniques within kinship circles, from fathers to sons.
Nefarious schemes to pass on control to sons, avoid taxes and exploit company assets for the benefit of family members are widely discussed in private.
That, in turn, would explain why women in rich countries, who are less likely to suffer from hunger and disease, are more likely to give birth to sons.
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It has been traditional in England for children to take their father's name and so Professor Sykes and colleague Catherine Irven looked at the Y chromosome, which fathers pass to sons but not daughters.
In Egypt, poor households are more likely to send their sons to school than their daughters.
It turned out to be just the right challenge to entice both sons to commit fully to the family business.
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By expanding and spreading her new chain of Siam Hotels, she finally managed to entice her sons to help run the business empire.
Crain told the group he looked to his sons, Chris and KC, to help navigate the family business as the media industry goes digital.
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Traditional Chinese beliefs about family have led most people to treat sons ritualistically as the perpetuators of clans, meant to produce offspring to carry on the family name.
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Others call it is the price families are willing to pay for their sons to win a woman believed to be a virgin.
He claims he was not deceiving the Army when he claimed the school fees to send his three sons to the Lancashire school because he was their "primary carer" instead of his wife.
Beyond the nuts and bolts of finances, he said such training can serve an equally valuable purpose: It forces farm families to prepare their sons and daughters to take over the business.
But the king is understood to want one of his own sons to succeed eventually.
That's the intended consequence of the story, which concerns the fates bequeathed by fathers to their sons.
South-Asian women, pregnant with daughters, reported incredible pressure by in-laws and husbands to produce sons and not daughters.
Beyond being a CEO, I am also a wife and a mother to two sons in grade school.
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Mr Sharon says he did not handle any of the finances himself but left everything to his sons.
She died two years later, and the team went to her sons, William and his older brother, Charles.
The result was that the hungry birds were more likely to have sons, and the plump ones daughters.
"When I'm talking to those kids, I'm talking to my sons, " he said.
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At 77 Sobrinho is also an adviser but mostly focuses on the ranch, leaving the day-to-day details to his sons.
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He says another missive, left in the mid-1990s, indicated that the original Toaster was passing the torch to his sons.
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It was Mr. Madoff himself who apparently applied the word "Ponzi" to his crime, in his distraught confession to his sons.
So when Dykes got on the bus Tuesday afternoon, it didn't seem unusual to her sons, Jesse and Jackson, she said.
The friend said Nancy was devoted to her sons and had been "caring for Adam, " but would not provide further details.
Monogamous marriage was invented to ensure that when private property was passed from a man to his sons, they were in fact his sons.
The domineering billionaire had given some capital to his sons, but they knew that he would be tough on them if they lost it.
Yet the crowd quickly picked up on the patronising tone, with Mr Mubarak likening himself to "a father speaking to his sons and daughters".
Her elevation to the status of "respected mother" was seen by many as the first step in the transfer of power to her sons.
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