Lots of aspects of the world are very cool, but given that people are shown as being just as nasty as they are in our world, I wonder what the upbringing of many children is like. In a non-technological world, having children is economically valuable if your business is something like farming. So people might want to have children even if they aren't loving toward children. In our world, hormones and instincts generally provide a dose of mother-love for infants. In the world of the Twelve Kingdoms, this isn't necessarily the case. Which may explain why kirin have special nurse-guardians, but that doesn't do much for the average child born (hatched?) into a poor or working class family.
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Date: 2009-02-05 05:14 pm (UTC)Lots of aspects of the world are very cool, but given that people are shown as being just as nasty as they are in our world, I wonder what the upbringing of many children is like. In a non-technological world, having children is economically valuable if your business is something like farming. So people might want to have children even if they aren't loving toward children. In our world, hormones and instincts generally provide a dose of mother-love for infants. In the world of the Twelve Kingdoms, this isn't necessarily the case. Which may explain why kirin have special nurse-guardians, but that doesn't do much for the average child born (hatched?) into a poor or working class family.