(1) <<Where you thinking of the possibility that the main limit for bearing children is economic? >>
actually i do not. devotion is the other limit, as expressed mathematically as 'share of time'
the many wives one husband solution would probably work better than the many husbands one wife formulae, given the math of
(i) how long it takes a wife to incubate a baby (9 months), relative to longevity of any one wife,
(ii) how much each wife weakens as more babies come into being, resulting in possibly weaker babies, and
(iii) how much time and devotion it takes to bring up any one baby to adulthood by, primarily, the baby's mama
just chemistry, math, physics, psychology, and the humanities
(2) <<If so why not a woman that wants more children should have several husbands to support her, the children and pay for the needed "nanny" ? >>
simply put, the guys who must share the cost of one wife bearing however many kids probably are not qualified to be dads
(3) <<The solution - multiple husbands to wait in line for spending an intimate night with the coveted wife and share the economic burden of raising the many children>>
would not work well, because on average, given the odds, many kids would be abandoned by their biological dads, since dads tend to do such much more than moms |
