The story of King Henry goes a little something like this: "Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived." The King wanted a boy child the be the heir and carry on the family name. Unfortunately for him, wife number one, two, four, five, and six all failed in giving him a son. Obviously, the third one succeeded in giving a son, but, going along with the sad story of this unlucky King, she died just days after her son was born. The moral of this story is that King Henry just wasn't happy with a wife unless she could provide a male child for him.
Now, 500 years later, Chinese husbands are doing just that. Some Chinese husbands are so intent of having a boy to carry on the family name that they threaten to leave their wives if they can't give the man a boy child. This sounds oddly like King Henry from the previous paragraph...Curious, don't you think?
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