The parent clearly said that they suggested a _bias_ towards a female instead of a male and a bias towards a parent. You&#x27;d have to judge the advice based on your&#x2F;the child some very young children clearly wouldn&#x27;t understand advice based on a hierarchy of responses.<p>I&#x27;ve given this advice to my children giving &quot;mother with children&quot; &gt; &quot;store worker&quot; &gt; &quot;other person with kids&quot; &gt; &quot;policeman or someone in uniform or someone you think looks friendly&quot; as the hierarchy.<p>You&#x27;re right there is far more than money at stake - isn&#x27;t that even more reason to push the odds in your favour as much as possible.<p>Perhaps a better analogue is that you can choose between two hospitals for your child&#x27;s operation who are both very good but one has 10x the mortality rate of the other, you&#x27;d express a preference for the hospital with better outcomes regardless of the sex of the surgeons wouldn&#x27;t you?<p>I don&#x27;t understand your last sentence?