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* ''Literature/{{Pact}}'': The [=DuChamp=] Practicioner family has enchanted their bloodline to only ever produce girls. This is largely because the way the family increases its standing among the Practicioner community is through ArrangedMarriage, marrying their daughters to powerful, influential Practicioners. The only known case of a son being born to the family was when one of them was married to a priest of Dionysus, whose god's power over fertility overrode the [=DuChamps'=] enchantments.
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* In the ''Series/ILoveLucy'' episode where Lucy gives birth to Little Ricky, Ricky and Fred chat with a man who is expecting his seventh child, with all six of the previous ones being girls. After his wife gives birth and the nurse tells him, "We have a surprise for you this time," he's ecstatic about finally having a boy, only to approach the window and learn his wife gave birth to ''triplets!'' All girls.

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* In the ''Series/ILoveLucy'' episode where Lucy gives birth to Little Ricky, Ricky and Fred chat with a man who is expecting his seventh child, with all six of the previous ones being girls. After his wife gives birth and the nurse tells him, "We have a surprise for you this time," he's ecstatic about finally having a boy, only to approach the window and learn his wife gave birth to ''triplets!'' ''[[SurpriseMultipleBirth triplets]]!'' All girls.
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* The Jenius family of ''{{Franchise/Macross}}'' fame have at least seven daughters and no sons. This possibly extends to the next generation as their only known grandchild, [[Series/MacrossDelta Mirage]], is also a girl.

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* The Jenius family of ''{{Franchise/Macross}}'' ''{{Anime/Macross}}'' fame have at least seven daughters and no sons. This possibly extends to the next generation as their only known grandchild, [[Series/MacrossDelta [[Anime/MacrossDelta Mirage]], is also a girl.
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* The Jenius family of ''{{Franchise/Macross}}'' fame have at least seven daughters and no sons. This possibly extends to the next generation as their only known grandchild, [[Series/MacrossDelta Mirage]], is also a girl.
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* ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'': Kieran has 50 brothers and no sister. Apparently, the Unseelie King never conceived a daughter. [[spoiler:He actually did, and said daughter was in fact his eldest, the fabled "First Heir". She ran away to marry a Shadowhunter, which shamed the King so much that he decreed any future daughter he had would be killed.]]
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* ''Film/ParanormalActivity'': It's mentioned in the second film that Hunter is the first son born to Katie's and Kristi's family in several generations. [[spoiler:[[EvilOldFolks His great-grandmother]] is part of a cult which sacrifices the firstborn son to a demon, which is why the demon targets him.]]
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* In ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' Nanami's family only gives birth to girls, and only a single girl each generation due to a curse/blessing started from Yukiji that can only end when [[spoiler: a girl of their line and Tomoe fall in love again]]. This makes the finale even more significant when it shows the child Nanami has is a boy, indicating that the curse's conditions have been fulfilled.
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* ''Literature/TheAccursedKings'': It's noted that the royal family of France had always produced enough heirs (King Phillip IV alone had three sons) to prevent a SuccessionCrisis, so when all three of those sons inherit the crown one after the other and still die without male issue (only Phillip V had a son, but he died in infancy) it causes a crisis like no other in living memory, as the only available candidates are the king's nephew (an amiable incompetent) and his grandson (who is English), leading to the Hundred Years' War.
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' the Heterodyne family is known for only producing sons with two known exceptions: Euphrosynia, TheLostLenore of Andronicus Valois the Storm King, and Agatha, the protagonist of the comic. In Agatha's case it's strongly implied that she was engineered somehow to [[RaisedAsAHost be a host body for her mother Lucrezia]].

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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' the Heterodyne family is known for only producing sons with two known exceptions: Euphrosynia, TheLostLenore of Andronicus Valois the Storm King, and Agatha, the protagonist of the comic. In Agatha's case it's strongly implied that she was engineered somehow to [[RaisedAsAHost be a host body for her mother Lucrezia]]. (There's also a scattering of female-looking names in the crypt, but it's possible they're only Heterodynes by marriage. Even if they're not, it still seems as if the Heterodynes are ''predominantly'' male.)
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* [[WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}} Kaeloo]]: Stumpy apparently has 36 sisters, with him being the only boy.

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* [[WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}} Kaeloo]]: Stumpy's family has eight children and all of them except for Stumpy apparently has 36 sisters, with him being the only boy.are girls.
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* The Reed ''Series/{{Sisters}}''. Four girls, albeit with boyish nicknames to satisfy their father who hopes for at least one boy. Their mother herself has a brief fantasy of what life would have been like had she had four boys instead. Even the half-sibling (the result of their father's affair) discovered in season 4 turned out to be yet another sister.

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* The Reed ''Series/{{Sisters}}''. Four girls, albeit with boyish nicknames to satisfy their father who hopes hoped for at least one boy. Their mother herself has a brief fantasy of what life would have been like had she had four boys instead. Even the half-sibling (the result of their father's affair) discovered in season 4 turned out to be yet another sister.

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* ''Film/MarthaMarcyMayMarlene'': Apparently enforced, though we don't find out how or even why. Cult leader Patrick "only has boys". We don't find out if he has daughters and what happens to them.

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* ''Film/MarthaMarcyMayMarlene'': Apparently enforced, though we don't find out how or even why. Cult leader Patrick "only has boys". We don't find out if he has daughters and what happens to them. the girls.
* ''Film/{{Mustang}}'': The younger generation of the family is made up of the five sisters. The lack of male influence in their generation leads to them being controlled by their uncles after their parents' deaths.
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* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'', Major Frolaytia uses her military career to avoid being forced into an ArrangedMarriage by her family. Women of her family are desirable brides because of a "special ability" that they are extemely fertile and any children they have are almost always male.

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* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'', ''Literature/HeavyObject'', Major Frolaytia uses her military career to avoid being forced into an ArrangedMarriage by her family. Women of her family are desirable brides because of a "special ability" that they are extemely fertile and any children they have are almost always male.
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* The Reed ''Series/{{Sisters}}''. Four girls, albeit with boyish nicknames to satisfy their father who hopes for at least one boy. Their mother herself has a brief fantasy of what life would have been like had she had four boys instead. Even the half-sibling (the result of their father's affair) discovered in season 4 turned out to be yet another sister.

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