Re: Q: Children Count for a Mother

[email protected] (Ron Savage) Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:20:47 +1000
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Hi Jutta

What comes to find is checking their birthdates.

On 26/06/17 00:27, Jutta Wrage wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to get the number of children of a woman.
>
> If I call number_of_children for every family, I get only the correct number, if there isn't one of the childrens added to two of the families.
>
> Example:
> Woman gets a child
> Then she is divorced an married again before the child is adult.
> The child is added to the new family as being Stepchild this makes it counted for both of the families.
>
> I did not find out how to get access to the qualifiers "Step", "biological"...
> So it seems not be possible to count the children myself without putting them to an array and sort out duplicates
> or iterate through all individuals and increase a counter for a mother on each one.
>
> Am I right so far? Or is there a better way to find out how many children are born by same mother?
>
> Jutta
>
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