in color amentans meet hazel
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"The poor babies."

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"What about them?"

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"Complain about population controls as much as you want, we don't have kids born who no one wants."

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"Oh, the mother usually gets attached once they're born and struggles along in dire poverty and if the father is a decent person he'll send financial support."

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"Poor babies, like I said."

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"'Usually', he says."

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"Not always. We have a lot of orphans and functional-orphans."

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"Do Amentans literally never have a baby and then realize, oops, not cut out for this -"

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"It happens ever but then an aunt or a grandpa or something is like 'wow, free baby'."

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"Smaller family sizes will probably cause that to happen more for humans even given that you like kids less. I'm trying to imagine - knowing your kid is starving and being like 'hmm maybe I'll send money occasionally' -"

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"I mean, it is acknowledged to be dickish to get someone pregnant and abandon her."

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"'dickish' seems, like, appropriate to moving your roommate's clothes out of the dryer before they're done, not 'getting someone pregnant and leaving them and your baby to starve'."

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"The difference I'm noticing isn't even in severity but like - if you thought your baby was starving wouldn't this be constantly horrible, for you, I'm not expecting altruism I'm expecting selfishness and it's just not happening the way I expect here -"

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" - to be clear this is in fact all horrible and I think it's more common among irresponsible people to never bother learning whether someone you were with is pregnant. But among people who know and don't pay I think the mindset is - she already doesn't have morals, so you don't even really know if it's yours, and you want a decent marriage someday and someone paying for a bunch of bastards is not a very appealing partner, and if you send money then you're being involved and who knows where that leads, maybe someday she shows up on your doorstep or something, and if you send money then you're admitting it's yours which is potentially embarrassing."

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" - wait, how do you know that she 'doesn't have morals' -"

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" - because she was having sex with you."

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"Wizards are a little less like this than Muggles but the idea is you don't have sex at all till you're married and then only with your spouse."

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"I see the pragmatic merits, if you don't have birth control, but bad judgment in that arena doesn't seem to imply you wouldn't be monogamous."

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"It's all one carnal-self-control package."

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"Poor babies." 

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