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Was it silphium?
> If children are raised by the clan, not by a nuclear family, then does
> it matter if Uncle Valmar never married and had children, as long as
> he's there to help raise his brother's children? The limiting factor
> is not men who want children as much as it is women who want children.
Some time ago, I read an anthropology text arguing that having a number of childless adults around can be a major benefit to a 'primitive' community, as it provides extra labour to look after the other adult's kids, farm, gather food or whatever it may be. I think it was based on studying groups of chimps which, of course, aren't exactly the same as Heortlings but there you go...
As long as, like other people have said, you don't have *too* many people deciding not to procreate.
Regards,
Bruce
Regards,
Bruce
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