[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts Professors/HP universe - no partners; no children

[Sarah Schreffler]

No: HPFGUIDX 154850

Susan McGee said:
>Okay, not ONLY do none of the professors have partners/spouses/lovers, 
>but it seems NONE of them have children.
 
[...]

>The Weasleys seem to be the only family with a lot of kids...
>well of course Lily and James didn't have time, but the Malfoys only
have  
>one, the Lestranges have none, Barty Crouch only has one, the Diggorys
only 
>have one, Crabbe and Goyle seem to only have one.....neither Sirius or
> Regulus have  had any kids that we know of...the Patils and Creevys
seem 
>to be the only other  siblings.....

Sarah:
1. You do have Sirius and Regulus, and Narcissa, Andromeda, and
Bellatrix,  then how about Fleur and Gabrielle?  And Molly had two
brothers

2. to a great extent, this seems to reflect real life in UK (I suspected
this because even in the US, the average number of children in a family
have dropped)

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/00AB-A.asp
According to this 2001 census, the average household size in UK at that
point is 2.42.

Out of 67,000 households, 33.6% (22,600) were single people households.

So among the rest, you end up with some arrangement of 2 people
households and more.  But that still, eyeballing it, appears to me to be
a high percentage of 3 people families (2 adults, 1 child)

Add in to this that in the wizarding world, you've got a war having gone
on, where quite a few members of the world (comparatively in such a
small population) died young, before they had a chance to have as many
children or where, during traditionally childbearing years, they were
just struggling to survive. (And maybe no baby boom like the end of WW I
and II because the people hadn't left home for there to be the same
"Open armed welcome back" of those days?)

--Sarah Schreffler