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Originally Posted by dcarson
I wouldn't expect a high growth rate. The richer you are the more a child costs.
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The degree to which that matters depends on a number of social policy choices, though, religious, social, cultural, and economic factors can interact in very complicated ways. Generally, if people want kids, they aren't stopped by cost, if they don't, making them cheaper doesn't help.
How big is a homestead in the OP setting? Are we talking suburban plots, the traditional 160 acres, or are they staking out vast estates? I suddenly have a vision of a pseudo-aristocratic settlement wave made up of the very wealthy creating vast country estates the size of large counties...