I don't see how this would impact on child mortality at all? This sort of social control could be supported by good medicine and controlled birth, or by horrible eugenics-based practices.
Personally the Brithini scream "horrible maniacs" to me, but I don't find them less interesting because of that.
-- John Machin "Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All." - Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.
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