Re: B Ark Colonist and Colonial Industry... [LONG[

True, a lot of social considerations here.
In the American pioneering era, however, having 8 or 15 siblings was not
considered unusual. 

Not a big issue, I must admit. 

Laserlight wrote:
> 
> > >Other people may, of
> > >course, have different ideas, but I would imagine that babies get
> born
> > >out of wedlock rather more often in colonial societies
> 
> More often than what?
> 
> I'd always thought that empires in the expansion stage tended to be
> fairly conservative about that kind of thing.    For three examples,
> the early Romans, Arab Conquest Moslems, and Genghid Mongols.  I could
> be wrong and I'm sure counter-examples would be easy to find (and
> that's not to say everyone in a society conforms to the rules they say
> they value).	But in any event, it's easy to imagine colonial
> societies--eg Amish, Puritans, etc--where that wouldn't apply.

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