Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6533159-20151015224111/@comment-26018514-20151019025406

Shadow at Morning wrote: I understand. Regardless, when both parties are serving, one must account for longer maternity leave on account of lack of physical fitness, as well as time needed to raise a child, even with robust childcare systems. From a career perspective, this is undesireable.

I'm unconviced this is sufficient reason. Semblances are based on personality, though, and there are no guarantees, even accounting for the semi-hereditable nature. Consider personality archetypes and how those play into the limited number of possible superpowers. Even if there is pedagogical preference, I don't think that's enough.

When both parties are serving who is to say the child is not dumped on a local caregiver? As I said before our society has no real analogue to remnant, villagers essentially live inside walls, only an idiot would refuse to make friends with their protectors, and compensation is likely.