>Donald Oddy:
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>>This is why the population maintenance rate is something like
>>2.3 surviving children per family which means a lot of births
>>in some families if we assume pre-20th century child mortality
>>rates.
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>Can we assume this rate? Does the mundane and magical expertise of the
>appropriate cults only prevent the rate from being much worse than it
>was, pre-20th C.?
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In the old Glorantha source book, there was a paragraph about this.
Death rate was lower for low ages, but higher later, "thanks" to more
dangerous problems than IRL (magickal beasts, war magick...). I think
this can translate into a population maintenance rate possibly a bit
higher (to compensate those later death), but which is possible with
less childs, as more will reach adulthood. An the mother's survival
chances are certainly higher.
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