Maybe it is just me, in the small world I now live in. While I was having my daily beer intake (this was about 1 month ago) My niece was shopping ?? at the sorry sorry, with her, was a neighbours daughter. I remarked that she was well behaved, OH! this one is but her Sister, is so Different. hmmmmmmm . OK! maybe 2 or 3 days later I saw her again and thought well, here we have a little 6 year old, with good teeth. WOW! 2 or 3 days again after that, I was talking to my niece while she shopped with the little girl. BUT! I noticed that the Little girl was unruly and had developed some (mmm overnight??) Tooth rot, in 2 front teeth. I mentioned to my Wife what I had seen and to my amazement she just started to laugh at me WHAT? are you laughing at. NO she said, they are Twins but are so different. One is good and well balanced and the other is just the opposite. and they don't get on together. Embarrassed to say the least, it got me thinking. I have not seen many Twins (I can't recall any at all, offhand) I have always thought of twins as part and parcel with each other, These two girls are Identical, except for the teeth of the one but the opposite nature of these twins, has started to make me think more. Are there many Twins here in the PI? Maybe, it is a Phenomena here, that twins don't get on, like the rest of the World? Which would answer, why we (or at least me) never see any Together. Funny old World. JP
Mr. Peterson, Interesting remark! I personally never saw any... But i always wonder what happens to Pinoy kids...when they're small they're adorable and often well behaved but after they grow a bit they become not so lovely... Mary
I think growing up and losing their cuteness happens to all children, notably my Grandson and Granddaughter, spoilt and self centred to the point of reporting their mother to their Teachers should she dare to try and discipline them, verbally even! One of the reasons I WANT to live there instead of bringing anak to this S****hole to grow up and learn the traits from kids here! Twinning across the Developing World PLOS ONE: Twinning across the Developing World *Quote: Figure 1 shows that there is huge variation in twinning rates across the different regions of the developing world. The very low rates observed for the pre-ART period in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, turn out to be the dominant pattern in the whole South and South-East Asian region. China, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Kyrgyzstan all have twinning rates below 9 per 1000. Twinning rates are somewhat higher in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, but also in these countries they remain below 10 per 1000 (see also Table S1). We also computed the number of triplets. There were 370 triplets in 2,473,209 births, or one triplet in 6,684 births. This outcome is reasonable well in line with Hellin's law, which says that if the number of twins is one in X, the number of triplets is one in X2. With one in 80.05 births being a twin birth (all births in the DHS data taken together), this rule predicts the triplet incidence to be one in 6,408. This is only four percent higher than the incidence actually observed. The pattern of variation in triplet rates across the developing world is rather similar to that observed for twins. The triplet rate is 285 per million births in the high twinning countries of Africa, 155 per million births in the other African countries, 68 per million births in South and South East Asia and 83 per million births in Latin America without Caribbean. The number of quadruplets in our data is 12, which is too low to draw any meaningful conclusion.
