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[Panando]

...Decided to pop it up to 150 just to see if Violencehalls is still well regarded as a child care facility.  Got a smallish wave, but it was 11 adults and 10 children.  How did they make the journey across the sea trying to keep track of that many kids? 

I keep seeing this sort of reaction, and it continues to puzzle me.  Have this many people never read any historical novels, never studied world history?  Even by comparatively modern standards, a household frequently will have several children; and even early American family sizes were *much* larger, let alone medieval ones.  For example, from one work on early New England, "Most women could expect to bear at least six children and delivered children at fairly regular intervals averaging every twenty to thirty months, often having the last child after the age of forty".  "Samuel Sewall was a New England merchant and magistrate whose meticulous diary, written from 1673--1729, gives us a vivid picture into colonial life. Seven of his 14 children died before age 2; only 3 of the 14 would outlive their father."  " Puritan preacher Cotton Mather saw 8 of his 15 children die before age 2."

I see, so the real problem is not the number of children, which is accurate, but the lack of mortality. So to have a realistic approach towards dwarven childcare, we should take care of at least 50% of children before the age of 2, and at least 75% before they reach reproductive age.

[TheFlame52]

I'm actually going to keep the kids happy and healthy and constantly socializing so that when tragedy inevitably befalls, the tantrums will rip the fort apart and Violencehalls will earn its name.

You may be new but that, my friend, is sig-worthy material.