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[ImagoDeo]

Shakespeare's age-old question returns in a form rarely seen: DF.

I have a thriving fortress of 289. Fully 100 of the little buggers are children.

I do not want so many useless mouths.

I also do not want massive tantrum spirals on the part of all the dorf parents in the place.

How do?

[mal7690]

The answer is clearly a well designed daycare centre.  With a well designed spa for the parents. 

[ImagoDeo]

I'd love some specifics.

Or a stupid dwarf trick, if anyone has something suitable. One hundred dwarven children should be capable of much good !!science!!.

[Setes]

This is dwarven child care: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=91093.0

[Togre]

If you are fine with killing the little blighters and only are worried about tantrum spirals the solution is pretty simple--don't allow the bad thoughts from the purge outweigh the other good thoughts of your population.

--Only "resolve" a few of the issues at a time.
--Make the parents happy--lavish bedrooms, mist generators, statues everywhere, masterwork clothes, etc.  All good thoughts all the time will keep them sane.
--Monitor your dwarfs happiness with Dwarf Therapist.  If someone's sinking pretty low, focus on him/her/it until they have left the danger zone.

--To prevent in the future ('cuz I don't think this can be changed during a game) lower the child cap, so you get fewer babies.

[Garath]

If you have patience and time to spare, a child killed in complete isolation in a way that no corpse will ever be found, such as magma or atom smashing, doesn't cause a bad thought as long as you make a memorial slab in time to prevent the ghost from informing everyone the child died. It's kind of slow as you can only do it one by one. Attempting this on a group will let them telepatically warn everyone of their demise just before they die