[HPforGrownups] Equality of opportunity

[Robert Shaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 83198

Mikael Raaterova wrote:
> Robert Shaw wrote:
>
>> Nor is equality of opportunity necessarily connected with birth rate.
>> For muggles bringing up a large family was a full time job, because
>> of the sheer drudgery involved. Magic makes it much easier, house
>> elves more so.
>>
>
> Your conclusion doesn't follow, unless you assume that all witches
> have a nanny or two (or a house-husband...). We do have a few
> child-raising references in canon, at the QWC; they do not hint at
> nannies of any species or any spell-based ersatz-mothering

Not mothering, maid-service.

I'm pretty sure Narcissa didn't wash all Draco's nappies by hand,
which would have taken a few hours each day.

Magic won't reduce the people-managenent aspects of child-rearing,
but it can eliminate the drudgery.

Wizards will have had the equivalent of automatic washing machines
and vacuum cleaners long before muggles, which will have saved
wizard parents quite a bit of time.

--
Robert