But to sire a male offspring was to risk losing both name and blood.

However, male and female offspring traditionally take the father's last name.

Many sought for him to give them male offspring and to protect their living children.

In other words, a cheap female worker, and if they were lucky, also a mother of future male offspring.

A son is a male offspring; a boy or man in relation to his parents.

In this way, males pass on only their genes to become fertile male offspring.

Since he had no male offspring, his inheritance passed to his brother.

The female will then mate with the male offspring and produce eggs.

However, during my last cycle I was permitted to have a male offspring.

However, the fathers become hostile towards their male offspring after 12 to 14 months and will chase them out.