The game tries to keep a balance of 5 provinces to three male family members.
Like Dagovax said, expanding your empire (rapidly) will generate Men of the Hour, do it slowly or lose a lot of people to old age and breeding should occur.
Its a coin toss if the child is male or female. Good luck trying to keep the family name going- there are reams of studies showign that royal family names died out and were replace with others throughout history.
its the bloodline that matters, not so much the family name.
And welcome to our forums, AiDok!
[This message has been edited by Terikel Grayhair (edited 05-12-2017 @ 01:25 PM).]