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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SpiralBound" data-source="post: 9774861" data-attributes="member: 8396">That is some serious fecundity.  More so than Goblins canonically.  This could have some interesting consequences.  With such birth rates is infant or child mortality high?  If so, why?  Disease?  Cultural practices?  Environmental hazards?  Culling by dangerous animals?  Even if all of those children reach adults of breeding age, then that raises other possibilities.Is life considered cheap?  Is there high competition for resources and social positions?  How has society shaped around such explosive population growth?  What is the typical family structure and child rearing like?  I'm trying to imagine the logistics of the average family having 12 to 36 or more children at a time, then imagining just how large a family could be with several cycles of such childbirths.  At that rate, one adult couple could sire close to 100 children in an average marriage.  Considering that those two parents would also have 150 to 200 siblings between them, each of whom would also have 60 to 100 children, and that's an extended family of possibly 20 thousand cousins, and we're not considering any other generations like grandparents, great aunts and uncles, and all their descendants!  Just a single family gathering could equal most cities!How do you financially support, physically house, feed, clothe, and socially raise from infancy to adulthood 100 children?  Even if you space your litters of children far apart, trying to do the same for 12 to 36 or more children seems ... intense.  Would most families be utterly poverty-stricken by the expenses of so many kids to support?  Would they be expected to fend for themselves very early on in life?  Or is sibling competition so fierce that only a handful survive childhood?  So many more questions are suggested by "dozens (of children) at once"...</blockquote>

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