OOP: Where was the guard?/Birthrate in Wizarding World

[hermiawoods]

No: HPFGUIDX 63241

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mindy HP Fan 
<MollyWeazley at j...> wrote:
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> * This question, I haven't reaised yet, but I'm curious... Note the
> absence of a Maternity Department in St. Mungo's. What *is* the 
birthrate
> in the Wizarding World? You  never hear mention of someone being
> pregnant, someone giving birth... no one gets a new sibling or
> niece/nephew... no mention of people getting married either... 
There's
> like this huge generational gap between the Hogwarts generation and 
the
> MWPP generation.. No young couples? No little babies? Where do these
> people give birth, at home? or is there a separate hospital? 
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Well, I think it's more that we don't often see any context where 
there would be children, since most of the time the kids are at 
Hogwarts, where everyone is 11 and up. At the World Cup in GoF there 
is mention of young wizards -- a girl with a toy broom, a boy 
enlarging a slug... 
So I think it's more that we just dont have many characters at a 
childbreaing point in their lives. Yet. (Yes, I noticed Bill and 
Fleur.)