Heir of Slytherin ... or NOT???

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 58162

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Patricia Bullington-McGuire
<patricia at o...> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2003, Steve wrote:
>
> ...edited...

>  
> > As others have pointed out, given double lifetimes and double 
> > fertile > child bearing years of wizards and witches, it would 
> > seem reasonable that all families are somewhat large thereby 
> > creating many decendants. 


> 
> Except we haven't seen many examples of large wizarding families.  


bboy_mn:

I was thinking from a conceptual or statistical perspective. In
theory, a woman could have kids until she was in her 80's. If she had
one kid every 10 years, in her normal productive lifetime, she would
have about 6 kids, yet there would never be more than 2 kids living at
home at any given time. That would give the outward impression of a
relatively small family, while over a lifetime, creating a relatively
large family.

The basic concept is that a longer span of productive years opens the
possibility for a large family even though at any given time the
number of kids living at home would be small. Not saying it does
happen, only saying that the potential is there.

 

> I suspect that magical folk have been taking advantage of good 
> magical contraception for a long, long time, 
> 
> 
> ----
> Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at o...>


bboy_mn:

I'm behind the idea of magical contraception too. I've always thought
it was a very realistic and likely concept. But we don't see any
health classes in the Potter world. Where do kids learn it? Maybe
health/sex ed. comes in 6th year. 

bboy_mn