Aren't there some wonderfully difficult problems to work out about how these different parts of the social world of wizarding britain operates?
This issue of age and child-bearing would really change the focus of life. If children leave home at similar ages as muggles do, then a witch could expect to have up to 100 years without a child to care for. It would make a focus upon career development much more logical, because it's necessary for the witch to support herself for that long period, and child-bearing could become something that you do to get it over with so that you can get on with your own life. I wonder also about children as the basis of contractual relationships, because if there's social pressure to enter into a contractual relationship to have children, what does that mean when that contract is fulfilled? I'm also really interested in the economic practices of the world, and whether they need to have incentives or controls for the production of children and how they support that through taxes, incentives and sanctions. It's fascinating stuff!
This issue of age and child-bearing would really change the focus of life. If children leave home at similar ages as muggles do, then a witch could expect to have up to 100 years without a child to care for. It would make a focus upon career development much more logical, because it's necessary for the witch to support herself for that long period, and child-bearing could become something that you do to get it over with so that you can get on with your own life. I wonder also about children as the basis of contractual relationships, because if there's social pressure to enter into a contractual relationship to have children, what does that mean when that contract is fulfilled? I'm also really interested in the economic practices of the world, and whether they need to have incentives or controls for the production of children and how they support that through taxes, incentives and sanctions. It's fascinating stuff!
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