Using a male "master parent" to breed works really well later in the game, but you need to be careful when your village is small -- that villager will probably keep breeding even when you don't want him to, so your village may get bigger faster than you can feed it .

I usually use a couple of female "adept/master parents" early in the game, until I get enough food (a couple thousand) to keep the population happy...then the boys can have their fun .