Presidential Children

 In "National Review" (August 27, 2012), Kevin Williamson has written an interesting article about the gender of children born to "born leaders"--boss material--based on the Trivers-Willard hypothesis: an evolutionary biology study that says "high-status animals tend to have more male offspring than female offspring.  The theory holds true across many species, from red deer to mink to Homo sap.  The offspring of rich families are statistically biased in favor of sons--the children of the general population are 51% male and 49% female, but the children of the Forbes billionaire list are 60% male."  Romney has 5 sons, no daugthers;  18 grandchildren (13 boys, 5 girls). When he goes to church at the summer family reunion they make up a third of the congregation.  No wonder he's rich--Hey, mom, what happened to us--oh, forgot, we are rich in the Spirit--and some of us don't believe in evolution anyway--at least I know Dad didn't.
What about our Presidents (I'm taking a leap here equating leadersip and skill in the wielding of power to wealth--the focus of the article--but then I don't know too many rich red deer or mink--although their coats are expensive.  Here are the 20th and 21st century presidents--Biden doesn't know about the 21st century ones--he's still in the 20th century.
Obama  2 girls
W. Bush  2 girls
Clinton 1 girl
HW Bush 4 boys and 2 girls
Reagan 1 boy, 2 girls, 1 adopted son--Michael, the closest to him in political leanings
Carter 3 boys 1 girl
Ford 3 boys and 1 girl  (remember: he was our only non-elected president--appointed to the position by Nixon after Spiro Agnew resigned over kickbacks while gov of MD.
Nixon 2 girls
LBJ  2 girls
JFK 2 boys (1 died before his first birthday) 1 girl
Ike 2 boys (1 died at age 4)
Truman 1 girl
FDR 4 boys 1 girl
Hoover 2 boys
Coolidge 2 boys (Calvin, jr. died at 16)
Harding no children--but was rumored to have an illegitimate daughter--not proven.  He married a divorcee with a young son--no word on whether Harding adopted him.
Wilson 3 girls  (and he was a mysoginist, who tried to prevent the women from getting the right to vote?)
Taft 2 boys
Teddy Roosevelt 4 boys 2 girls  ('favorite' son, youngest was killed in WW1.  Teddy wanted to get his commision from the Spanish-American War back so he could go fight--at age 60--Wilson refused--Teddy died the next year
For those interested in the past 'great' Presidents (the Mount Rushmore ones):
Lincoln 4 boys (three died while quite young, at ages 4,8 18--Robert Todd, his 1st born died in 1926 at age 83)
Jefferson 5 girls 1 stillborn son  (interesting fact--his eldest lived for 64 years, followed by the son, #2 daughter died at 3, third daughter  (Lucy Elizabeth died at 1, then they had another daughter that they also named Lucy Elizabeth.  Martha Jefferson died shortly after and the second Lucy died at age 3--Jefferson must have been a very melancholy man.  The claim tht he fathered children by the slave Sally Hemmings--his wife's half sister--have been disputed by as many credible historians as there are on the other side of the issue--many claim they were fathered by a Jefferson cousin--dates of his visits to Monticello match up with births of Sally's children. And DNA tests tht have been done would implicate any male Jefferson--including the cousin.
Washington no children, adopted Martha's son and and daughter  
So it looks like if Romney wants to be president, he and his wife better get busy and have 2 girls (Obama, WBush, HWBush, Reagan,Nixon, LBJ) --or better theory--we elect presidents who have no concept of money, no wonder we're in such a financial mess (Although Carter and Ford destroy that theory--remember WIN--'Whip inflation now' with Ford and Stagflation with Carter)--they fit the hypothesis mentioned at the beginning, but they sure mishandled the economy.