One of my insane theories is that the one child limitation is part of the unforgivable debt the Nacene inflicted on these people, because each generation has to be half the size of the last until there's just one kid left wondering what the word "crowd" means.
An opposing theory is that just because the Ocampa can only get pregnant once, it does't mean that they can only have one child per perpregnancy. If triplets or quadruplets were the norm, then their society would have a chance to grow.
Then of course the gender split may not be 50/50, and they as a people may not be monogomous, because kes's mother had her at the age of three but her father died near our girl's 1st birthday, so either her father died in an accident or men reach their "single" fertile moment near the end of their 8th year, which would suggest that emotional couplings between Ocampa would have males as second husbands raising other mens children and...
God help me.
Anyone else connected the dots on this one and come up with "Lolita"?
Well, that would be if the ocampan kids weren't mature enough to leave home by their first birthday when their pappies were shuffling off their mortal coils, but that was a dark place.
Imagine you had to bed and be trained to be a good husband by your eventual motherinlaw, who is also currently your first wife, waiting for your oneday wife to come of a child bearing age, who you are raising as your child.
I have altogether been watching far too much LEXX of late.
