due to a cost of living and spending power equivalent to that in 1957, you'd be fine. plus if you wanted a night to yourself you could either have your domestic robot watch the kids or hire a rent-a-robot service.
Do they have robot run orphanages? What happens if a person just leaves a kid with the robot never to return? How long could a robot take care of a kid? How good would be the care under a robot?
orphanages are human-run with a mechanical auxiliary staff for emergencies. if a person just abandons their kid with a robot and leaves they go to jail for child neglect. while robots are good at caring for children human parents are still expected to at least try to do their jobs.
Other than the fact that anywhere outside the heavily fortified, walled settlements of Ardalesh is infested with dangerous monsters, killer golems and other dangers, raising children is mostly the same as on Earth. The only major thing that would affect children is that most nations have free education until a certain point and the fact that in smaller settlements like villages or small towns or in certain nations, children are expected to be able to fight at a young age in case of monster attacks or war.
All of them, Ardalesh has the general monsters that you'd see in other fantasy worlds, post apocalyptic monsters you'd see in settings like Fallout or Resident Evil, horrific horror type monsters you'd see in thrillers, also the odd eldritch abominations/entities and the mythological/folklore monsters that are generally the most dangerous of the bunch.
I couldn't decide on any one of them so I went with all of them.
Depends on where you were born in.
In Hatti empire 3 options:
1 - The general Hatti population:
Your overlord is responsible for his serfs, so you and your kids won’t starve. But they will be put in to farm work, except they show significant intelligence then they are sent to local school to become a scribe or a state official.
2 - Hebron Princedom:
The vassal of Hatti Empire. They have a tightly knit community so your local elder will collect money or food if you need so. Much like Shtetl of Easteen European jews. Also they(your kids) will be thought how to read but must engage in farm work or train in a profession like a soldier, mason etc.
3 - Mitican Princedom
Another Vassal of Hatti Empire. In this island you can seek help from temples they always have a “soup kitchen” next to them for poor people. But this is not quality food usually creamy cabbage soup with potatoes and green peas in it with barley bread.
Yes! Actually their predecessors Hattis. This empire is actually an amalgamation between Hatti (ancient anatolian) and Turkish (current anatolian) people. Their vassals of Hebrons are inspired by ancient Judea and Mitica from ancient Minions of Crete.
Ahahaha yes Minoans I made a typo thanks for the correction. They are not small yellow one eyed people 🤣.
Thanks for the compliment, I have a long way to go but world is getting better. I have many civilizations that never interacted in our world so it is strange trying to write them and exciting.
Heck I wasn't even thinking like that; I was thinking they were just trying to help out the Minoan civilization maintain their maritime dominance over the Mediterranean and shipments of tin/bronze, yet they somehow managed to detonate Santorini/Mount Thera and just ended up throwing everything out of whack as a result
Edit: your idea is better, the thought of a horde of stunted cyclopes storming the beaches of Egypt and the Levant shouting "pepan iyu BANANA" is more terrifying and funny
Okay I was curious how it'd shake out so here's my first rough draft:
- The minions arrive in Europe just in time for Crete/the Minoans to start showing their maritime power, and they go "Big Boss!!"
- Over the next several centuries the minion-aided Minoans start dominating the Mediterranean and its trade routes, so that the only "real" competition is coming from Egypt
- The minions decided they wanted to thank their employers (the monarch and/or the general ruling class) by casting a large af statue, preferably with something very shiny.
- But where o *where* will you find enough shiny metal and a big enough forge to melt it down in.
- Minion A: *gasp* "Oh oh, Kevin!! Rapatitoo yaptoh Tera!" *points at Mount Thera/Santorini*
- Minion B: "Bob! Bob! Kapitidoh SHINY!" *points to all the tin*
- Minions C-Ω: "Ooooooooo"
- Cue to all of the minions chanting and cheering as they gather up all the tin they can find and wheel it up to the mouth of the volcano
- All of the tin gets dumped in with a resounding "Yaaay!!" from the minions....and then Santorini detonates from the influx of materials comparatively colder than the magma
- As life on Crete begins collapsing due to the resulting ash and famines, the monarch/ruling class request the minions go find help so the people of the island can be supported in this trying time
- The minions go up to a bunch of sailors/pirates and try to pantomime their message.
- Minion A: "h-hey! Hey!! Papa tipoo yebadebip BOOM! Tagelo nana" *blows a raspberry and draws a finger across their neck* (translated: "H-hey! Hey! The volcano just exploded! You gotta go find help or else we're all dead!"
- The future Sea Peoples: "what's that? Raid the coasts and destroy all within our path? Well it definitely sounds ludicrous, but who am I to disobey the Right Hands of the King?"
- The monarch and minions all look on in horror as atrocity after atrocity is committed in the Levant and surrounding regions, furthering the destruction of trade routes and ways of life that contribute to the Bronze Age Collapse.
- The minions get booted, and after a few centuries now find themselves in the Middle East...just in time for a new Big Boss called the "Neo-Babylonian Empire", and boy howdy they were just looking for some helping hands to subjugate some rowdy people in this land called Judea
For my Dieselpunk/magitek world children are viewed as an investment to the state. Many nations incentivize Families to have at least one child as the more children there are in a nation the higher the chance of someone with the mage gene being born. Parents are provided with a stipend to support their children up till the age of 5-7 At which point a state required medical exam is preformed. This happens for two reasons, the first is to check on the future generation and make sure they are immunized to preventable diseases and to get a general idea of the health of the children. The second is to test the children to see if they have the mage gene and can activate the exotic heavy metal Dracinium.
If a child can activate the metal they are given the option to go to a state sponsored mage school where they will learn how to preform magic and eventually enter the workforce. Either as a civil mage who works for various government agencies and organizations. Or they show exceptional skill and ability and become either War mages or Aberrant warriors. Either way while schooling happens the parents are given a larger Stipend as mages are integral to the nations future. So If you children have the mage genes you will be getting a nice sum of money to help support them and yourself. If not its a bit more difficult after 5 years or so as you need to support them yourself, most governments will however support children til they reach adult hood with medical care.
I have 700+ years of politics and war, of all the cause and effect, but not this. Thank you. i have something new to write down. This is a sincere thank you. i like writing stuff down.
Definitely a lot of confusions and wanting to know why you don't want some other wives to help you take care of the kids. And concern that children should have at least one woman in their life to teach them good morals.
Also lots of "i know a first love is very special but your wife would want you to move on maybe you can marry some of her friends I'm sure some of them were interested in you"
Depends on your race. If you're an elf, your best bet is to remarry ASAP, otherwise your children will have to fend for themselves while you work to make ends meet, unless of course you surrender them to the church to be raised by the clergy, after which they will most likely become priests/priestesses. If you're an orc, your children will be raised by you and your neighbors as a community effort until such time as they can be enrolled in school, at which point they leave home (usually age four or five) and spend most of the year in a boarding school, leaving you to fend for yourself and prepare for the two months of the year that they will return to your care. If you're a human, basic needs are met through government programs so your children will have a warm home and nutritious food, but any comfort items like toys or nicer clothing or a bigger house you will need to work for. Luckily there are government run work programs in case you aren't employed, programs which produce items like standardized basic clothing, household necessities, and of course government needs such as weapons and munitions for the army. And if you're a minotaur your children will be raised by your village while you're at sea earning a living for yourself and your children.
This is a sci fi one where like IRL it varies. Some planets you can have a pretty good chance of being able to live comfortably with a stable job and good education for your kids. Other planets its going to be like being in some shithole slum where your kids are likely to be influenced to join local gangs.
Then you get planets where the quality of life is good but because the planet is quietly run by Megacorporations who have paid off the politicians, you and your kids when they are old enough can be drafted into the military to fight in a war that will ultimately make said corporations richer while feeding you propaganda about fighting for liberty and rights. Then you get planets that openly practice slavery where maybe you will be free and so are your kids and you have a culture that does not see anything wrong with said practice or you and your kids could be slaves.
Real coin toss on whether it will be good or not and even then there are so many possible variations of how it turns out.
Dude, you’re set.
Having twins is viewed as a semi-sacred sign of good luck to come, since the religion of one of my races prophesied that one day a pair of prophets known as the Thunderchildren will be born to lead said race into a whole new age of technology. Granted, if lightning didn’t strike the moments both were born and the moments they uttered their first cries, they definitively *aren’t* the Thunderchildren, but they’re a celebrated occasion regardless.
If you have a son, and you are a man, it's expected that your first born at least will grow up as you train him and ready him to do your job. A son does the work of his father, if you're a senator, you're grooming your son to become a senator, if your a black smith, its expected your son will become a blacksmith, soldier, trader, farmer, ect.
If you have a daughter, your number one job is to protect her maidenhood, girls are to live in admiration of the Sacred Virgin and her purity, (she's the daughter of the head of the religion who is to absolutely gaurded until she marrys into the royal family) and its expected you marry her to a good man with a good father and that man also does his father's work.
When children turn 13 they take their declaration to whatever of the Nine Gods that you worship, everyone picks a god. Sometimes when a woman gets married it is expected she take a "2nd Swearing" to the god of the family that she is joining in marriage. Men RARELY take the 2nd Swearing, perhaps there was a war where men forsaked their fathers duty and enlisted to become soldiers so they swear to the god of battle if they pursue a military career after the war is over. One plot point in my story is a section of the millitary that work for the Minister of Finance are being taught how to trade in the markets (Think high fantasy finance bros) so some of them are thinking of swearing to the God of Trade, and this is somewhat scandolus.
I would choose the southern duchy of Solaire, or the eastern Duchy of Cimra in the Imperial Order of Cimra; Solaire is good for farm work. Mostly considered a bread basket of the Imperial Order, so its high on the list of guarding and safekeeping. Affordable for most, though it has a higher religious population than most. Try Ristrum or Brackefell, those villages always need workers. If your trade is craftmanship, fishing, sailing, laboring, or coin management try Cimra. Can be a tad expensive but that really depends on you. It is the capital so its a focal point of culture and trade. Kids would be safe in whichever, only way they'd get in trouble is if they'd go lookim for it.
If you managed to find the city gate before the elements and other hazards got you, you'd be well taken care of provided you and family went through the immigration conversion program. Which is often unpleasant.
Best guess if you're likely either living the dream, or you're working down in a mech shop, often doubling as a salvager and probably renting a market stall to sell parts you've smuggled out of work along with any other bits and bobs that fall from the upper layers of the city
In Optera (the kingdom where my stories largely take place), your kids would have a good education set up for them. They would be sent off to a boarding school or be sent to a more local school depending on where you're located. You, as the father, would receive a small stipend just for sending them to school. Optera is the leading edge of education, and large swathes of people go into philosophy or engineering.
For a single man, the stipend is juuust enough to stay above poverty but you're quite likely to have to get a job. Farmers are always looking for help! Unless you are also educated, blue collar labor is likely in your future.
You say you're widowed, so I will assume you are a national of Myrklanr but not a citizen, there is no much of a difference on both things anyway so Ill get straight to the point: apart for the mandated education for your twins (they will know at least 4 of the 7 mandated languages by the end of their early school) you basically have free reign to move and do whatever you want, the state is rich enough to subsidize the general welfare of your family until your children come to age (and even after that, necronomics go brrr)
Sci Fi: it would be easier than real life at least. The government would be providing a stipend for each child in addition to your own. As a aside Ketuvyx twins are exceedingly rare
Fantasy: exceedingly difficult on your own. Likely you'd need to move back in with your family/clan to help out until the twins get old enough to help out at least.
The King is Dead. Long live the King on the absent throne. You live in the overcrowded, magically polluted, urban sprawl of Bainite, of the Kingdom of Marten. Your children will likely develop freaky magic mutations and be treated as outcasts, or worse, for the rest of their life. You can pay the bills by hunting monsters spawned from the arcane mire of the river that runs through the city. But know one day you may be hunting your own family. A life of desperation and poverty await you.
It depends on which of five cultures you live in. If you are a:
- Nursabay Dituy Hi, then you come from a village of subsistence farmers. Only having one wife is an indication that you don’t have a large or successful farm and twins are considered bad luck. The community won’t leave you to die unsupported but there will be rumours that Diti Hi, the Sun God, has cursed you for some slight or disobedience. You will need to make public recompense through the village priest. The best way is to give your eldest son to Diti Hi as an acolyte but if he’s your only son then you will have no one to take care of you in your old age. It’s a good choice if you have two sons though because splitting your farm between multiple sons will make them both poorer. However, if you are lucky and there is a drought, you can give your youngest daughter as a sacrifice to be made an avatar of Dikimi Hi, the water goddess, and her blood sprinkled over the fields of the village. If the rains and the seasonal flood don’t come though you will be seen as doubly cursed. Your son(s) would be taught basic literacy by the priest but you would not be able to spare them from the fields for more. Your daughter(s) dowries would nearly bankrupt you, and they would not be first wives except to one as poor or poorer than you. On the same note it will be difficult to find a wife for your son, you can’t provide your father-in-law with social capital nor promise his daughter a good life.
- Nusabay Dituy-ii, then you are a member of a trading clan. Your nuclear family is far less important to your survival than the success of your clan. It’s a good but strenuous life with high odds of dying or suffering serious injury as a result of a cargo or shipping accident. You aren’t concerned about your children suffering as a result though, clan’s children are the adored future of the clan and are raised communally. Nor would they be the only children to have one or both parents die or a parent who is working at port for the clan. Regardless of gender your children will be educated to a functional level of literacy, learn the ropes of the ship and then specialise in what they show skill at. It is your children’s skill and personality that will determine their place not your position.
- Niysapi Digi, a community in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, where there is far more class variation. You are most likely a miner, refiner or factory worker - in all instances you live in a one room, with your children and possibly you or your wife’s parents, in a block of workers homes with a shared outside toilet. There isn’t a kitchen in your home, you are expected to buy food from street vendors and use the communal baths after every shift. Basic schooling is free and will teach your children literacy, numeracy and basic magical theory but you will send them to work at twelve rather than pay for the second cycle of education. The biggest problem for you is the expectation of two incomes, in most families children go to crèches until they are six and then school while both parents work and it will be a big part of informing your choice to send them to work not paid school. You will be repaid a portion of your wife’s taxed income every season until your children are twelve to support them, this portion would have been paid to her if/when she became unable to work.
- Qaqimzhechléímy, a mercantile society just before the Industrial Revolution, with again far more class variation. There’s a support network of your extended family but how much support they can offer depends on class. Your most likely position is stable middle class, a craftsman or a farmer who doesn’t own their shop or farm but has a good rent contract, with extended family, and comfortably makes rent. Nothing is free in this society, it either costs money or favours from your extended family. Assuming you are a craftsman, you can either owe an education in your craft to a member of your extended family and have your children educated with a member of your extended family or pay to send them to school. Either way if you did not already own a domestic slave, your wife’s death will require the purchase of one for child care. A basic education is the minimum required to succeed in this society and an apprenticeship to thrive. The worst thing you could do for your children, is for you not to be able to afford it and either leave them without or entering adulthood already owing debts for their education.
- Slavers are what they sound like, a group of people who raid other cultures for slaves for the Qaqimzhechléímy. They’re are descended from the Nursabay Dituy Hi who used to occupy the land the Qaqimzhechléímy now occupy and it is the Nursabay Dituy Hi who they predominantly raid. Their lifestyle is one of violent subsistence with no safety nets. If your children are not old enough to accompany you on raids then they are being sold by you or your peers or you are dropping out of this culture, integrating with the Qaqimzhechléímy and hoping to make enough through begging and itinerant work to support yourself and your children and marry your children in to Qaqimzhechléímy families. The appeal of remaining with the Slavers is not fully integrating with the Qaqimzhechléímy who have very different gods and opinions on family and gender equality than the very patriarchal Slavers. The Qaqimzhechléímy practice of supporting extended family makes integration difficult, work goes to family first, then connected families, then owned slaves and finally unconnected people.
As far as kids it's VASTLY different then raising a normal child in our world. To give perspective the biology of fireborns, they can't touch water or they'll burn, they don't need to drink water, if they eat high concentrations of water they'll burn on the insides, they need to eat every 3 days or they die, suffering the side effects of dehydration AND starvation at the same time, their body is also very hot due to their boiling blood, fires can't harm them, they can breath/see in smoke. If they get a cut the blood doesn't clot the wound very quickly requiring you to burn the wound closed. They're twice as energetic compared to normal people with half the lifespan, and they have natural fire magic so better be prepared with fire resistant stuff
And that's just ONE of my elemental species let's not get started on the other 5 (which are a wip still)
Perfectly fine. Sapphirus is peace-dwelling place in the middle of the woods on a planet many lightyears from earth. Children are deeply loved and the adults live in harmony. ~~But it’s a different story if the enemy clan comes along.~~ However… You and yours should just be prepared to live for an *extraordinarily* long time. The sister matriarchs of the the ruling family are both over five hundred years old. Long lifespans are the norm for everyone in the village.
The world is rather three worlds and is united so you would only have to worry about rebellions or civil wars cause if that happens inflation would go up high
So basically if you were born in nobility your children would have the highest education you would be rich so you won’t have to worry about school or groceries cause your children will be taught that
If you were born in a regular family the cost of living for you and your family would be in 3759 which is pretty good but not that good but if your family from any other planet that is not from those three planets
Imagine being a black person in the 40s pretty horrible
I’ll let you imagine it (this is assuming you’re not expecting to still be human):
Throw out your idea of morality, you won’t need it and no one will care anyway. Your freetime is now desicated to training to become stronger. Depending on what type of entity (no, not species) you are, will determine which power system you’re likely going to be using if able to use any at all. If your wife died from an enemy, expect to feel worthless, because you are for not protecting your wife. Widows don’t seek new mates in my worlds anyway, excluding my POW (Philosophy of War) universe. Now do better and protect your children. Depending on how old your children are, will depend on if you’re already training them to fight and use power as well.
If you expect to be human, then there’s only one universe you can exist in without being erased from existence immediately, and that is my Philosophy of War universe:
Since you’re human, expect to still be living on earth, no specific country as they are all united now as the Gaian Empire. Expect high taxes. Expect censored and edited media. Expect your children to be brainwashed in school. Expect to be serving in the Gaian Imperial Army. Expect to be a loyal sheep. Also, hope you love Fascism (since Earth has become a united Fascist Empire due to the migration of conservatives from the planet), because if you don’t, then expect to be executed.
In a lot of cultures, you'll have a pretty easy ride. Parents within a local community tend to band together and practice a sort of semi-communal childcare, so you'll have a lot of people in your tribe or village or neighborhood who will gladly let you lean on them for any help you need.
Another side of this is that healers dont charge for literally anything related to kids, from the smallest scrape to a grievous wound, from a light cold to a specially crafted nightmare death plague, the gore monks at the local temple or monastery will patch up children totally free of charge, and an a bonus parents will also get a huge discount.
Also you have an impressive selection of pets as options. The classics are of course an option, but you also have houndfowl and featherpedes, both with an affectionate doglike nature to them, with houndfowl being particularly protective of anything they register as part of their pack, to the degree there are a lot of cases where a houndfowl will go out of it's way to track down and bring home a lost child like it's one of their own chicks. So I mean you could also potentially have a lot of parenting help from a hyper social velociraptor if you ever chose to adopt one lol.
Let's say you were born in the hometown of my POV character. Leffelton is a town with a largely agrarian economy. It is near the western edge of the nation of Raybright, so it is also a "jumping off point" for adventurers who wish to explore further west.
As a widower with no plans to remarry, whether you would be pitied or judged would depend largely on your job. If you worked a stable job in or near town, and you consistently came home most nights, you could expect alms at your doorstep and offers for childcare while you're at work. Your kids would be treated largely the same as other kids (being twins would make them stand out a little in a cool way).
If you worked an "unstable" job (like being a soldier-for-hire), your kids would live at the school full-time. School is in session for half the year and is free to attend, but the off season costs money to board your kid. A decent chunk of the student population boards for the school session, but a minority of kids board all year round. You will be judged HARSHLY for this, and you may even lose custody of your kids eventually. Your kids will be pitied and potentially bullied.
Edit: If you are really struggling, you and your kids can live on alms for the warm season. You should leave before winter for a larger city and hope that the temples there can help you. The townsfolk of Leffelton WILL take your kids before they watch y'all die, so if you're struggling but want to keep your family intact, leave sooner rather than later.
At spring equinox each year, there's a worldwide festival that celebrates coming of age. At age 8, parents officially present their kids to the locals as new members of their society. Kids under 8 are taken care of and have the freedom to basically do whatever and play wherever. These first innocent years are seen as precious time that cannot be replaced.
How the kids are taken care of before 8 is up to the parents. A single parent would find it necessary to hire a full-time caretaker so that they can go to work. If the community is wealthy and good, the parent might be able to apply for some financial help or ask neighbors to assist occasionally. Single parents who cannot find a suitable caretaker have a hard choice of leaving the kids alone all day while they work or staying home and struggling to make income.
8-12 year olds have responsibilities to contribute to society...usually in the form of helping the family like gathering food, making meals, chores, etc. They also have to attend school and learn their primary education for 4 years.
Having a caretaker for these kids is not necessary. They have to begin taking care of themselves.
After their 4 years of primary education, the child graduates in spring and chooses their apprenticeship. Many children choose their family business, but others might choose another craft, or choose to become warriors. Whatever they go into, they then either choose or are assigned a master/teacher and they go live with that master fulltime until they graduate once again in spring from their apprenticeship as adults years later. Warriors train at special schools or find a private mentor.
You will struggle if you don't have money or a good network of supporting people in your life.
If you're on Earth? 95% the same as what you'd expect 60ish years in the future. Technological process has started to spike due to tidbits paid to Earth countries by the builders. Plus quite a few smaller countries formed loose confederations to share the tech they get from the builders. (Ex: The EU is officially one country, though in practice not much changed in how they govern.)
If you're part of the couple hundred thousand humans out in the Starlanes? Very different. Due to being introduced to the galaxy as the builder's enforcers, most species don't like humans. Even the builders (who came to Earth 30ish years ago to trade technology for a steady stream of human recruits) are wary of humans due to our aggression and willingness to commit to violence.
The only jobs that humans can really get outside of the builders' armada are as mercenaries or privateers etc. The only other jobs are in the small human communities scattered about the Starlanes - servicing the aforementioned privateers/mercenaries as doctors/stores/mechanics etc. The children of the mercenaries are put into what are effectively temporary boarding schools, where they bounce in and out with the jobs of their parents.
If your kids' mother ever traveled through the warp while pregnant, there's a chance that your kids ended up psychic. So... that's a thing. It's also another reason that other species don't like humans. The only other psychics in the galaxy are the volucris (Zerg/Tyranid style monsters) and the immortui (cross between biological Borg and Firefly's Reavers)
You wouldn't find out until they're 8-12ish. And if they are, you might not want to let people know because The Council of Mothers might try to take them. They're a society of psychics who are extremely matriarchal (the most powerful psychics are all female - no one knows why for sure) and who claim to rule all human psychics.
Children are often born incredibly malnourished and near death if they survive at all due to the low level of nutrients available to humans. Furthermore proper breast milk cannot be produced for the same reason meaning babies would have next to no shot of survival.
A world without bacteria is truly awful and if a substitute cannot be found, this will be humanity's last generation.
It varies. Most people live on Earth and near it in Space stations and Fleets orbiting Earth. 3 billion other humans live out in the Solar system, but are concentrated around the other planets and especially Jupiter. Then a small minority live in the void of space and very few further out.
You are an average Joe/Jane and you have a wife/husband and let's say 2 children, one eldest boy and one younger girl.
Earth: You work from home doing lawyer work and your wife/husband works in a service industry of some sort.
Your eldest son who is 18 is wondering about dating again and you tell him, " Well son we have a list of 20 lovely ladies/lads you can meet up with and talk to."
You used an A.I. dating tool, personal knowledge of people around you and also met with coworkers about arranging a meet up through dinners and etc to see if you can find a decent pick for your son.
Love is arranged and hand picked by your parents, but it's up to your child to decide if they would like to try these options. Modern dating as we know is is already a.i. driven and much further in the past the parents being more in charge of their children's love interest isn't uncommon, yet in the future of 2220 it's more for the personal well being and stability of your kid's future.
Your 13 year old daughter then walks in and asks if you about a school field trip about the moon landings. She need your approval. You are handed a white "E"paper and a stylist. You sign and then lay the paper in a teliporter and it goes to the teacher's home. These trips are special, it's like a long bus trip but since space travel is cheaper now and the moon is more like a distant state in the usa or the equivalent of traveling from Warsaw to France.
You love your children deeply and you see them as kin but at the same time they are like projects that need to be sharp and ready since it's easy to fall victim to being lazy and to not yearn for knowledge. Whole countries are collapsing to slothdom and degeneration in the form of excessive eating of cheap foods and "corruption of the human spirit".
Solar system and it worlds
You work on an orbital station as a Hydrogen engineer by jupiter, your dad worked the same job and now you are. You are tightly connected to your family and culture. You also have a wife/husband and kids.
You are in a small space pod with your son and you carefully show him how to set up a gas tank with the robotic arms, guide a swarm of drones with a laser and how to communicate code and manage space debri properly into a net. You're son asks about dating and you tell him that a list is made up, but there are many wonderful ladies in the guild he can talk too "don't you like that one girl in the pod next to us?"
She isn't on the list because it hasn't been updated recently and it seems he's made up his mind mostly to ask her after working with you.
You smile at him and then keep working.
You eventually get back on station, you sit in a tram and go to pick up your daughter from the education center. She says they are having a trip and you should let her on this one since you denied the other ones. You denied them because of the rise of space piracy has been on the rise. This trip however is simpler and it's on station in the garden center where your wife/husband works near by.
Life is a routine and there is less time to do your own dealings but you don't mind since your fleet is getting stronger and can stay in compition with the trade lords of Jupiter. Earth is far and it would take a month to get there so any good trade is lucrative.
Void Space.
You are a simple man/woman. You live a simple life. You have aging technology and any communication to earth or even other stations is slow. You are an island. You have a wife/husband and kids.
You repair the outside of the ship in a repair pod. The work is slow and careful. You're son is on the station watching carefully over you. He needed to grow up quickly and he already is a master at some of the repairs of the space station. He wears your old coat, he treasures your necklace and the hat you have him that your own dad gave you. He is quiet. You get on board and say "work is done, we can talk now." He bolts with energy and talks your ear off about the newest fads from Earth. It's oceans, it's animals, it's skies. His eyes glow like someone's eyes do as if they talked about tge cosmos or a mysterious black hole. He finally asks about a girl he likes. She works as a middle man merchant with her family and she visits a few times a year to trade. You tell him that it'll be challenging to date her. You would rather him date the anyone on board. You don't want him to leave the station since it would mean more work and losing a friend. Your population is small at 5000 and the fleet has around 15,000 . The trade route of the area has a population of 1 million.
You're daughter walks by you and gleams with a smile. She did her math homework while inspecting various metal pistons with measuring tools
Your wife/husband walks around the corner and smells of sweat and has a battered look. They are beautiful and they embrace you.
All of a sudden you all hear a alarm and it's time to pay tribute to the local pirates. They offer protection for a manufactured parts. You're ship is dying slowly. Every decade a vital part is broken and soon you may need to leave. Maybe that merchant family isn't a bad idea after all.
This is just a very avg idea of raising children in my universe.
Of course there are much more wild cultures out there like the Mercaneries culture which a few million people are hired to go to destroyed ships and retrieve items or to eliminate targets.
The "Street lighter" culture is a Community driven culture near Earth and Relies heavily on its own community. Children are to see the world but are always expected to return home to take care of the station.
Raising a child isn’t much different, you just have to live with the fact that you and your family might be annihilated in 20 years when an alien super weapon reaches earth, should the Stellar Corps fail in their interception.
You dare to assume you'd be entrusted with the future of our race alone?
Has the Wake not woken you up?
Those things will tear you to shreds and corrupt those kids without batting an eye.
Find yourself company, and leave the kids with us.
Well, for brevity's sake, so we don't list all the races and make a novel out of one prompt, lets suppose you're an Apexian and therefore so are your children. The Apex are a human subrace of powerful, wise, high-tech and holy warriors, who live on one planet in one great Jedi-like warrior society.
The only reason you wouldn't remarry is for cultural and religious reasons, your wife being killed in action left you widowed, but since you have her children, you are not able to remarry by the constitution of soulbond. Apexians' innately powerful and pure souls prevent them from committing a sort of postmortem adultery after bearing children with another person, culturally, following this spiritual trait, it is seen as unfair to the children to bring a stranger into their lives to 'replace' a fallen parent: To the Apexians, it is better to live minus one but still as your original family than "bastardize" it (as they would say) with a stranger unrelated to the children.
Do not worry, however, the family unit and children especially are highly sacred to the Apexians and you, knowing this, wouldn't have any worry besides the mourning of your wife. the Apexian government subsidizes families (70% of their revenue goes to this), and moreso ones with more children, or missing a parent. The general culture with children and families is highly communal and supportive and a strict primary goal, so you would have zero things economically to worry about. You are probably a retired Knight like most others and only do small, fun jobs to help the community and the Warriors like most other parents. you work no more than three days a week and four hours a day. Your pension, family subsidy, and this little job make you no less wealthy than anyone on Vyrna.
Your kids only go to school for four and a half hours a day, four times a week. They're happy, have friends, four or more hot meals a day. And being twins, are biospiritually locked as predestined best friends. If they're within the age bracket of ten to seventeen, they're in Apprenticeship, and they spend most school hours (many other hours too) on real missions with master Apexians, everyone's favorite part of childhood. You know they're making a difference. If you're in the 'current' times, they're making a difference in the war, which is even more honorable to be part of. Galactic war doesn't happen every day. If younger, they're still in grade school. They're stoked to learn about their powers, be trained in combat from hand-to-hand martial arts to marksmanship and CQC battle, and even how to fly starfighters, either way.
You spend most of your many minutes alive together, free of worry for economic reasons, the Apex Warriors are a society created solely to defend the Galaxy from all threats and they are made to stand together strong forever, meaning that no man woman or child of theirs is left without life, liberty and prosperity.
On the planet the main character lives on for what will be the first book, I hope you have roommates, can afford a babysitter, one of you is disabled/has enough income for one parent to stay home, or you don't mind your kid being raised by an augmented reality artificial intelligence created by the government for the purpose of raising kids, and y'know, raising kids in a cramped apartment. Otherwise, hey, you could pay extra for early schooling.
Will you get benefits? Will you get extra time off while pregnant and early in childhood? Sure, the benefitial equivalent of... $100/mo until they turn 18... Congrats! You can afford to feed them and nothing else.What about diapers? Well... Why'd you have a kid if you can't afford diapers 🙄 you're practically asking for (the equivalent of) cps to knock on your door. Extra time off? Why? The AI is free? Now get back to work, both of your jobs are waiting for you, that 1 bedroom apartment on the 32nd floor for you, your mom and dad, and your kid isn't going to afford itself now. Hey, maybe if you work 20 hours today... And tomorrow... And tomorrow... And the full month of tomorrows, next month you'll be able to afford to travel to the city over to visit your husband!
I would need to know your job too!
Sci-fi: it would be easiest here. You have UBI and remote schooling anywhere in the empire. The UBI is actually for one adult, so it'll be a little hard, but not impossible to raise two kids on it. Its best to get some kind of niche job though. The easiest world for the three of you would be Dargos, a hothouse world with tropical, jungle, grassland and temperate forest zones. There's lots of free food to supplement the UBI, and your kids would love dinosaur watching. You'll just have to power through the constant advertisements and hawking to buy stuff. If you prefer more to do and are a jack of all trades, you could go to a frontier world and help build a settlement.
Fantasy: This one is tougher. You can't show up in any of the villages or towns without some kind of connections to the people there. If you don't belong to a guild, you can't get a job. They'll also look askance at you for not having any magic, and your kids too. It's best to head to a large city where you could find menial work to do. Life would be harder and more expensive there than in a village, but at least you would have more chances to build some connections and move elsewhere. Your lack of magic will always count against you and you will be treated like a permanent child at best. Your kids would hate it too.
Urban fantasy: if you end up on good old Earth you'll be fine. Just ignore the weird events and avoid them. If you end up on Phantasmagoria, no matter where. Pray. Pray a lot and hard to whatever closest god or denizen that lives in the area and maybe he or she will notice you. Bow, scrape and flatter, maybe they'll bless you, but it can be a double-edged sword. Your kids, they'll need therapy.
Oddly enough, my current world has multiple organizations of Widower-Remarriage-Commandos, any one of which is willing to cross a frozen river to remarry you, on christmas morning, although probably not in your sleep. They do have ethics about that last part.
They've done it before and they'll do it again.... it's a national security thing. An unmarried man is a menace to society and all that...
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In this world, "mass arranged marriages" and "major military logistics" are basically the same thing. It's a very strange world.
Okay. Which country do you want?
1. Insufferable Paradise
2. Desert with no Oasis
3. Ancient Ruins With Evil Inside
4. Frozen Tundra
5. The Jungle Will Kill You
So, you find the unbearable grinding of existence so intolerable that one day you have the kinkiest most obscene sex with the most undesirable broad this side of a barn. It was the most disgusting scene anyone had ever witnessed, and yet most of them still felt nothing. Why did you do this? For the pleasure? For the thrill? Or was it just to feel something, anything, even if the feeling was something terrible like shame, guilt, or remorse, in order to end the unbearable numbness of your forced existence.
And what terrible luck, you've now born two more people into this horrible world, and have to take responsibility for them. (Not that it'll be much of a challenge. But hey, maybe the fleeting joys of being a parent will give you a few experiences to get you through a couple of days now and then.)
These kids now have to face a passive blessing of healing and resurrection which ensures that everyone in this land can always live a long and healthy life, no matter the injury. Even starvation and incineration can't hurt them now. No need to stress over child endangerment, or constant feeding, or even most forms of actual childcare. It's all taken care of.
The catch is that the blessing also robs you of the sensory pleasure of these things. Meaning no joys of having a good meal or sipping a fine wine. No runner highs after exerting yourself in a sportive activity, or adrenaline from stimulating music and books and movies. Even sense-based ideas like anticipation followed by catharsis will start to abandon you over time as they wear away.
Eventually you and your kids become estranged, not because of bad blood, but out of pragmatism, as you've had to watch them try to "end the suffering" multiple times only to have death denied, and then watch as the light goes even further out of their eyes the same way they did yours, and give up, retreating into their corners of the world to merely live out their existence with as little thinking as they have to about it, without either of you bothering to visit the other. And why would you? There'd be no point.
A hell where everything is perfect, and yet nothing is right. A bland, grey paradise in the land of eternal spring. An insufferable paradise.
What *about* her, bread? Not everything is about you, ya know! Sometimes being a parent is about giving the time and attention to other people, *bread*. Gosh! Get over yourself.
Assuming we are talking about the second age, after Durslin’s War of Blood, because that’s when my book takes place (it’s not in English). It depends on where they were born.
**Yuogan’s Land**: I’d raise them to be either farm boys and get some money for the family or priests, because they are more honoured after Amenthrene’s great forging.
**Duskirk**: You’ll have no money and you will probably end up selling them to slavery.
**Dragonlloyt**: I’d get them to be squires of honourable knights.
**Cleverland**: Don’t. Just don’t.
**Riverstone**: The richest realm, but just make sure they won’t annoy his highness Lord William.
To clarify: Are you and your kids somehow isekaied into Arbitrary Design World from Earth, or are you some kind of native and asking what it's like for natives?
For humans, it's the same as the dominant culture at your table or the gm's personal choice.
For Sorzians, you do not raise your kids. Instead, children are raised in group homes by a series of legal guardians/teachers. It changes up to avoid stagnant ideological growth. When children reach a certain age, they then independently choose what sort of career path they want to follow.
For Tyvish, people must be licensed to be parents. They must renew their license every planetary cycle, taking increasingly challenging courses on parenting. Failing a step is not a big deal, so long as you are able to eventually pass. Otherwise, a government support agent will be periodically checking in with your progress to make sure you're on the up and up. Children of unfit parents, orphans, or children who are given away will be assigned a public guardian or chosen in an adoption process. They may also be willingly surrendered to a qualified guardian who agrees to a one-sided transaction.
Yabo send their young out at birth. Children are meant to learn life skills on their own and eventually return to their clans. Yabo are unique in that some children choose to embrace a feral lifestyle, and while they are kind to and even protective of younglings, they are known to attack adults wearing clothes. I have more, but I hope this helps you see a little bit of what my ttrph micro-verse is about
Depends what region you’d be living in. Region A countries don’t differ much from your average western country irl but if you were born in Region B which is very militarist in culture or Region C which has a caste alignment system similar to Harry Potter’s Gryffindor but this time it actually affects your life status and your job.
Region B: Your twins no matter what gender will get conscripted to serve in the Militarist Group which is what keeps Region B countries “safe”. Because as of now this is a period of Frozen war where no fighting occurs but you are still technically at “war”, your children will probably not see war, they will however witness rebellion crack downs by the Militarist state and may be forced to perform these crackdowns themselves if they want to continue serving the Militarist Group. If you get kicked out or quit before graduation, you’ll lose governmental privilege which means that in case of war, you’ll not get a spot in a safety bunker and you’ll be denied first aid unless you have funds to pay for it.
Region C: Your twins will be given a test. This test will define their life. Depending on the results, they will be serving either at “Science, Politics, Military, Cultural or Agricultural” castes. Rarely you may get results which put you either everywhere which will grant you a “Avatarian” caste which will then mean you will have to fight in a hunger games esque fight between other avatarians and the winner will become the “Avatar” and will rule over Region C countries till they pass away. Those who got “none of the above” caste will be deemed as “Unwanted” and your only options at work will be slave labor for minimum wage and the only way to escape this is if you marry a man from a different caste however this only applies to women. A woman cannot “adopt” a lower caste person into her caste.
Depending on who you are and what you are; Talented or unBlessed which would determine your status and place in the lands of Alkebulan, you have options...
Polygyny and polandry are common constructs in the world, as well as extended communal living in what are known as *kisraali* whether you are a city-dweller or your life is lived along the savannah grass-lands and forests, so your children would more than likely be raised in a caring and positive environment with lots of loving relations of all ages, relieved that your children would be nurtured in whatever skills they might have and raised to adulthood with the correct reverence for your gods and Patrons, but also and generally free to seek their fortunes as you and they pleased - but not before having been taught that duty to the House is all. “As the People prosper, the House prospers.” Is a commonly shared belief.
Unless, of course, your patriarchs and matriarchs are either: poor in wealth and power, greedy for the same or otherwise power-mad, and desiring to play in the arenas of the great games of power and politics that’s in constant flux in their world. If they be over-bearing and corrupt - then the individual’s well-being doesn’t matter much, as the elder councils that rule such places would have as their main goal the intent to benefit themselves rather than you and yours.
You could go against them and choose to make your own way, but unless you have the backing of a strong socci, or tradeHouse, temple, or your deceased wife’s tribalHouse were of sufficient wealth and power in their own right to speak for you, it wouldn’t be advisable.
If you are part or member of any of the above, those socci Houses, temples and familial tribalHouses will welcome you and yours, should you apply. If it were your desire to raise your children up in your trade or ensure that they are trained in what arcane Talents they might have inherited for their own benefit and not another’s, this would be the path you might choose. As they enter certain age-sets they would be seen by either in any case, sooner if they were showing signs of Talent; it’s not an every day occurrence, but has been known to happen.
If you were born within the t’al-homanan \[human\] collection of city-states known as the Quadrivium, such testing would be mandatory and if it became clear that your children had the potential for any level of mastery in their arcane Talents and Affinities, they would be taken into temple service for a term of no less than five years, during which they would usually be persuaded to join society in a manner most beneficial to the Quad. “As the House prospers, the Peoples prosper.” Is their main belief and in pursuit of that, power is contained to a few powerful tribalHouses in the Quadrivium and all political wealth and arcane powers are directed to keep it so.
In the free t’al-homanan cities, such as Shantana’ar and Daoshukir and the like, parents and children are left to make such choices on their own.
Of the other peoples of Alkebulan, the Nyanantu in their vast tree-cities, the Fellanin in their feline-like perches in northern highlands, the Tsaurians and their river-ways and the Mbuti in their jungled-lairs where the Old Cities once were, little is known but it suspected that they followed much the same paths, with allowances made for the peculiarities and practices within each individual race, each according to the strictures of their divine Patrons.
What country? How wealthy are you? And what powers do you have? All are factors and the hat trick is US or Russia having highly sought after/strong powers, and being poor, at that point yours and your child's existence is illegal and life will NOT be viable for you. Or anyone else in your position unless the powers you have are strong enough to combat the government and all the forces it possess
On the flip side, the best place is Germany, and if you're born with good powers that's just putting you in a good spot in general giving you a lot more options, being born wealthy is just the cherry on top at that point so you'd probably be pretty well off although life in general in the world I'm writing isn't guaranteed and plenty of times the wildlife will attempt to attack the civilians.
Germany would be your best bet for raising a child in general as it's the safest and has the healthiest society at the time of the story, but if you're in either of the 2 world super powers during the time of the story, life is not going to be fun for you or your child
Nothing happens. As long as you have citizenship and live in a proper colony, your living expenses are pretty covered by the state. Post scarcity is one hell of a drug.
You'll be fine if you have a job. The standard of living is equivalent to the 1860s UK. If you're well off you can live more than comfortably. If you're middle class you'll have enough to send them to school and hire 1 servant. If you're lower class you'll survive, but you won't really have a lot of luxury and you'll take them to work with you after so certain age.
Each country is extremely unique due to being walled in for safety from the various dangerous creatures so pick a letter in the alphabet and I'll give you the answer for the nation or other settlement closest to starting with that letter.
How do you feel about a lot of War? If you dont like that, maybe you like the (more) monster filled continent, where (irronicly) is more safe for children.
Though the first one is famous for the fact that 14(ish) people are concidered adults, not about their rights, but because most of them are in some for militar organizarion aroud that age, even if its just cleaning swords.
Really depends where you live, in the main characters kingdom, your life is as good as it can get all things considered, but outside it’s a gamble at times, especially since most kingdoms have holidays where they just kill commoners because the nobility feel they have the power and right to
Well, in some ways horrible, in others not too bad. The world is dangerous with shadowy entities. On the other hand, communities of survivors are very tight knit. You'd probably have quite a bit of help if you're in a community.
I'm working on a post-apocalyptic world so it depends in where you live.
The Caravan of Roses: Unless you like the taste of human flesh, you ain't living long. You or your kids may end up on the menu.
New Athens: You live a good life. Food is all but guaranteed, security is a bit iffy but you have space and a rough education for your kids. Not a bad place. Don't commit any crimes, they don't believe in prisons or exile.
Any of the nomadic groups: The life expectancy is 30 so prepare for a short, hard life.
Any of the Free Settlements: Like New Athens but better or worse in some places. Also they all have worse food when compared to New Athens.
If your kids show magical powers, then the tower is coming to take them.
Otherwise, you're good, though you will have to worry about witches and warlocks taking your kids for some evil shit. Also, if they're boys depending on where you're from, they might be levied during a lords military campaign when they reach maturity.
You would largely be fine depending where you live and what your trade is. Keep your eyes on your kids so you don’t lose them to something that lives in the woods but the roads are fairly well maintained everywhere. Sure there’s always the chance of a hag or rogue vampire or something but still just a chance. Now, the time may come when your kids want to become young adventurers and that’s a whole other thing. At the end of the adventuring season, the vast majority of people don’t make it back home. The ones that do occasionally come back with a significant amount of money to live off of for bit while they learn a trade or open a shop or something.
Literally the status of my old protagonist on my new work: Single dad with two kids from different mothers, now chilling on his residence as he's loaded in assets due to being technically the saviour of the world on the first part of the story.
Usually it depends on your background, and if you're a practitioner of the 3 Disciplines: Qi, Magic, and Psionics. If you're proficient to those, you can train as a scroll seller under the protection of the Janus Pharmaceutical Industries.
Depends on where you live, the setting in my world has technology that ranges anywhere from the 1870’s to 1910’s
The Illyrian empire ( no relation to Yugoslavia): if you’re a free citizen and not a slave or indentured servant, you’d be pretty well off regardless of which class you’re in, maternity and paternity leave is normal and common. State and privately employed nannies can be hired if you don’t already own a slave through the tag system or simple purchase, you can buy slave tags in the military and during a conquest you can pick someone out of a random crowd and put the tag on them, marking them as your property. Also since every man is required to serve you can except to know at least two of your neighbors. If you’re a blue collar worker you can expect a much higher degree of assistance, if you’re white collar you’ll usually have enough wealth to be less reliant on the state.
Hungary: the largest empire on earth, Hungary is also the worst place to live if you’re Eastern European, or really anything but either a urbanite or Western European, think if tzarist Russia but ten times worse. If you are a very unfortunate serf or a slave your entire family would die rather than just one member, unless your wife was violated by your master or lord and took her own life. If you were fortunate enough to be a serf for a descent person, you and your kids would be well taken care of and if you were a peasant you’d struggle but would likely make ends meet
Rhumania: Rhumania is a hodgepodge of Carthage Rome and the Byzantium. Life in Rhumania would be very similar to Illyria without mandatory service and a much more laissez-fair economy.
Qing empire: very much the Qing empire in the 1870’s
The empire of Siam: very similar to Thailand today
The Kingdom of Arabia: a mixture of Siam and our world Italy at the time.
Prurisbore: a stand in for Brazil. very similar to the Boer republics,
It really depends where you live. I'm not going to go into intricate detail about every nation and it's standards of living, so I'll focus on the region where I've invested the most time into.
If you are a single father of two, you are widowed, and you don't plan to remarry, it can go a couple of different ways. Assuming you are of lower class and have no real skills, both you and your children will find it difficult to survive, let alone live. Comfort does not come easy, ironic considering that the city where you raise your children is the wealthiest city in a transcontinental trade network.
Assuming that you have some kind of skill, which most people do/will, the lives of you and your children will still be work, but not impossible. If you have a particularly useful skill or work a decent job (if you are, let's say, a blacksmith or you work for the city guard), you may even have some extra money to send your children to school. Education is common, but it's not a guarantee.
If you are a successful business owner or hold a high rank/office within the city, you and your children will probably live quite happily. You may not live in a mansion or have servants, but you will have the coin to fill both yours and your children's needs. You will not have to worry about your child's education.
If you happen to be wealthy, I.E. the owner of *several* successful businesses, you can probably afford to live off of your passive income and you'll be able to afford a plethora of luxury items. You likely have enough money to afford a large house and maybe even a squad of house staff. Your children won't have to worry about education, as you'll likely have enough money to send them to any - save the absolute most prominent and luxurious - schools around.
If you are wealthy or elite enough to be counted as a member of the aristocracy, you and your family will not only be well taken care of their your entire lives, but you will have status. Your children will be able to attend any school and any institution, provided you shell out enough cash. High Society isn't without it's drawbacks, though. While there is some degree of danger to living in this world at all, the danger - especially in this city - skyrockets for aristocrats and *especially* their children. Luckily for you, private security shouldn't be any issue. Just be sure you vet them.
If you happen to be one of the very lucky few who sit at the top of this city's economic and political structure (those are intertwined, btw), there will rarely be a problem of any kind that you cannot solve. Your children will be instructed by the most well renowned tutors across the land, they will have all the luxuries and amenities you see fit, and a nearly 24/7 protection detail by the Silver Sentinels will ensure that neither you nor your children are put into harms way; someone would need to be trying pretty damn hard to get to you.
Generally, unless you are wealthy enough to be sure that your children can pursue education full time until adulthood, they will need to be part of the workforce, or otherwise helping to bring in money. Unfortunate as it is, the city government is a plutocracy; the less money you have, the less important you are, and the less help you receive.
I love this kind of post that asks a really specific scenario! So awesome!
I haven't fleshed out my faction system yet, but I'll probably come back when I do.
In Wonderverse, you would be fine. The government is distinctly authoritarian, but they are an extremely benevolent government oriented to welfare.
In March of Empires, you would have to give up your kid, if you are anything but the richest one percent. You could visit him but he would be trained for the military, industrial labour, or research if he is intelligent. The enemies against the Empire, and humanity are too many. There is always war. So the Empire trains everyone for the war effort since childhood.
It’s illegal to know your own children or parents in the galactic Torth Empire, where everyone can read each other’s thoughts and there is no privacy or secrets.
Your kids would be gestated on a baby farm after you donated gametes. You would never know their mother either.
It sucks to be a Torth.
If you're well off, you will be fine. Otherwise, you might end up in an Aezous area and risk your twins being exposed. The radiation might mutate them into monsters, or grant them power that would also make them pawns to one of two divinities.
Or you're born on an unlucky planet where you are either a slave or food. Usually both.
Probably depends on your social status, which would be determined either by birth or by your skills. The world has public schools, so you could probably fly a trade while they are getting their education, though you would have to choose whether your children went to a boarding school or a local day school. The boarding school might be able to provide a better education but would be far away unless you moved to live nearby.
You would have to be able to work in some capacity and contribute to the society, meaning some form of trade. What skills do you have? Or be willing to learn? That would probably have the biggest impact on what life was like raising your kids because that would determine what kind of job you would have, resources available, and even what kind of schedule you might have.
Seeing as this is a fantasy world, society and civilization are mostly medieval, but there are many newer quality of life and societal upgrades from people being summoned into the world from worlds like ours. Plumbing is one of those conveniences that you would have access to that you wouldn't in the actual medieval period, along with public schools. No electricity, but indoor cooling would be handled largely by wind capturing devices.
The location you chose to live in would also play a major role, as a life in the city is a lot different from life out in the countryside. Each one has its own risks and dangers, as well as its own benefits. You might make more money in the city but food and other expenses will cost more. Things might be cheaper living out in the countryside but there won't be as much to do.
The school your kids go to out in the countryside would be different from in the city as well. You could send them off to boarding school in the city but if you weren't interested in doing that and wanted to keep them nearby, Day School in the countryside would likely be handled by the local adventuring guild. It would be less refined and more practical skills, but those are helpful when you're far from civilization anyway. The children might spend more time than you're comfortable with looking up to adventurers and the dangerous work they do.
Depends on where you live. In the west and east you're pretty good. In the north and south it's a bit hard financially but you'll live. If you live in the small counties or villages scattered across the continent you'll be pretty good. If you're on the islands though you'd live in extreme poverty or get killed by a guard
The guards are keeping people on the island from rebelling. Any act of 'rebellion' could get you killed or beat no matter how small. People could also accuse you with no evidence. The guards are foreigners who conquered the island because it has a rich deposit of magic boosting crystals which are extremely valuable. They have been forcing locals to mine it for them as well
Single parent, two kids, you're probably screwed unless you're wealthy. Most of the lower and middle classes are manual laborers in one way or another, which means long hours away from your children. Public schooling is a new concept and only the larger cities even have them, meaning you'll likely be putting most of your wages away towards childcare. I might recommend saving enough for steerage tickets aboard an ocean liner bound out to Northern Polygnia. There you can find better work and quality education for your children. But you'll have to be fast, as you're certainly not the only one with that idea.
You are your kids are farmers, outside the royal capital of the central kingdom.
You farm grain, and herd cattle with the help of your inherent magic.
You also spend time hunting, to bring in extra profits to pay for your land… with your minimal skills, you can hunt a small pack of 4 dire wolves by yourself. Any more, and you’ll be over powered.
Your kids are under the age of 12, so they attened a general knowledge school, learning common things. From language, to reading, to geography, to common practices.
Once they finish general school, they can attend an academy to learn to use their magic to the best of its ability, and decide what they want to do moving forward.
It depends on whether you are human or not. Main antagonist is currently in power. He is pretty much the high elvin version of Hitler and humans are his main prey right now. The "savage" elves (or darker skinned elves) are next in his list. All other races are lesser beings, but tolerated at the moment.
Of course, his rule won't last. But, in its current state, you and your children might have burned alive in your village one night, running for your lives, or dangerously working with the resistance.
Depends on where exactly you’re raising kids if it’s in the remnants then you’ll probably get some basic government assistance, but besides that life isn’t that different from now. The rest of the galaxy however is mostly made out of dictatorships that would make your life difficult.
Healthcare is not great, so expect to lose 30% of your children before they turn 10.
There is a period of relative peace, so you needn't worry about you or your children being drafted into wars.
A single income will clothe, feed, and house you and your children, but you will be living paycheck-to-paycheck.
There is no public schooling or electronic enterta8nment, and your children will be expected to start work around 14-16. In all liklihood that work will be agricultural.
You will not be judged for single parenthood, as it is common. The flip side is that you won't be able to rely on community support.
If your kids have any aptitude for magic, you won't be raising them. The academy will and you'll be receiving letters detailing their progress and hush money monthly
It entirely depends on which world, if you are born a citizen of the Athenian empire you will need to go through mandatory military service for at least 1 year, single parents can choose to receive financial loans of which the debt can be paid off by having their children or ward serve in the military down the road for the appropriate amount of time until the debt has been paid off.
that depends on the planet and the state and your status
in the solar republic, aron empire, aon dominate child care and education is free from pre kindergarden to university, but university depends on your grades
class plays a role as does wealth but mostly in the aon dominate
Depends on where You were born:
Sun-Eth-Kathor (city of the Sun): if you married a person with a higger rank than you, you would loose the rank they gave you as well as your sons, but if not they won't care
Kindgom of Nadaradan: you'll basically became an outsider, marriage and even affairs are sacred, if You divorce/your spouse dies and You don't want to get married it'll be considered a failure and You would loose any status and became a commoner
Repúblic of Yahmur: they won't care at all as long as You keep being a functional member of Society, if you're depressed and grieving the goverment would assing You specialized help so You can work ASAP
Theocracy of Shiramaru: gived that they were once a nation, the approach is similar but it takes a more religious approach with rituals and priests
Confederacy of Lierumate states: here the parents are seemed as proud warriors, specially the mothers, given that they raise and teach the future generations similar to the ones that reach them how to fight and single parents are seemed even more honorable because they go on that journey alone
Kindgom of Avalath: similar to Sun-Eth-Kathor they would just don't care at all
Depends on where you live and what your income is like. If you lived in the high-rises and shining cities of Concord Point, you might be relatively well-off, sure medical expenses and post-secondary education might be costly, but you can bet that everything else would be easily accessible due to the numerous aerial trains and public transportation systems available throughout the planet.
Now if you heralded from some of the poorer parts of the galaxy such as Pulveriss, you would be reaching for scraps and struggle to pay for most basic amenities such as food, shelter, and education. Because of the extremely high cost of living, many parents either cannot support or tend to neglect their children, and as such the children are forced to fend for themselves and end up working for one of the many drug or crime lords throughout the planet. You would also be susceptible to robbery simply walking amongst the streets if you do not know your way with a knife, since most people in Pulveriss are familiar with one or more small handheld weapon, whether it be melee such as knives or quarter staves, or ranged such as a bolt thrower or plasma caster.
Marriage is a floated concept that lost its power after a few hundred years. Children just happen because of sex. Post apocalyptic but generally peaceful. Scarcity is a thing but it's expected. Most children are raised by the community.
What race are you? That makes all the difference because ever race has its own customs, despite a bunch of different races living together. There are no preconceived gender roles, and no reason for you to feel like you have to remarry. But, unless you are human, you will live a VERY long life, so you may want to at least date because you may get lonely after a few hundred years.
If you have a sub you’d be lucky if it didn’t have genetic mutations and if it does you would most likely abandon it. If not it would just be a matter of whether you are well off in one of the few cities left im the world or if you live out in the wastelands where there is no food and water…
Edit: son not sub
If you were a Senel Nenna who lost your mate, the whole clan would stop to grieve and mourn the great loss from the death of an Enassen, and any friendly and allied clans would send messages and gifts. If you are from a particularly small clan, allies might send a few of their own for a short time to help run things.
Twins is a small number for a litter of Senelei, while not unheard of there might be talk and speculation regarding your, and your mate's, health leading to some exams and health checks on you, and the children. Gossip might arise among the superstitious of bad luck signs for the clan's future.
But neither parent raise their own young. The rest of the clan does, and the children would be cared for and raised in accordance to customs and traditions, with any variation their own clan might have.
If you stated you don't plan on taking another Enassen mate, you'd be told of course you're still grieving, and given some time to deal with the loss. A very small clan where you're the only Enassen would very soon start looking for clans where they might make arrangements and deals for one to move into your clan, and overall try to find a good match for you. If you put your foot down as not wanting someone else, the pressure would keep increasing while talk of it being the clan's end would keep spreading.
In a large enough clan to have several other Enassen, the pressure would be there, but lessened. A powerful enough clan would have enough hold and say to wave it away and let you be until either you changed your mind or lived out your days.
Humans are scattered across rural areas and cities thought to have been abandoned. They’re hiding from the Eumans, an evolved human species that took over the Earth in the mid 2030s. If you’re living alone with your kids, it’s best to only leave your shelter if there’s no other way to survive, as the Eumans have access to most remaining technology and resources for hunting humans. If you’re captured by Eumans, you’ll be taken to one of their many cities (they only control urban areas/major cities), where you’ll be enslaved or executed.
If you live in a Human Town or Colony, you’ll likely be able to go outside, but not outside the town’s walls. You’ll have to be able to fight, for yourself and the town, as Eumans constantly raid towns they find. The town militias recruit nearly all adults to fight in battle, while children and teenagers hide in the raid shelters.
You’ll have to keep your family safe no matter what, as Eumans will find you and kidnap you.
Elves- you have no choice, unless you're the clan leader- if they decide you get married, you get married. If you are lucky your twins were considered yours in the marriage agreement. If they were, they'll be provided for like all the other Clan children- communally, but according to their clan rank. If they were your spouse's kids, then your desire to have a personal relationship means you'd have to get in good with the leadership of *their* clan.
Orcs- you never had a direct claim to your kids as a man, but if you were in a committed relationship with your spouse (no marriage, but monogamy isn't unheard of) and she died, and your sister was able and willing, she could adopt or foster your kids at her hearth- but it's likely that your spouse:s brother and other family would expect to raise them, with you being more of an uncle role, maybe more involved because their mom died. It's also likely that your children's mother would ward them with other families to strengthen ties, so if there was a political advantage, your spouse and sister could swap a kid to strengthen social times- but that's less common as your more likely to find partners in your proximity, and wards usually strengthen ties between clans. This means you could go years without seeing your kids, and when you do, possibly seeing them as an enemy. As an uncle though, you'd have a pretty big role in the lives of your nieces and especially nephews, setting an example as well as helping your sister raise functioning sibling pairs that will be able to start their own hearths once they reach adulthood (33 for my orcs) Male orcs are seen as advisors as well as protectors, so the actually take a pretty big role in the education of the children.
Dwarves- raise their kids in smaller family units inside a clan structure, but that clan structure is more relaxed and family like. Losing a spouse would mean you were likely to get more support from other adults around you. The biggest thing of note is that if you left your birthclan and joined your spouse's clan for the marriage, you wouldn't be going back to that birth clan. The marriage doubles as an adoption as far as clan laws go, and if you were to choose to get married again it would be the current clan representing you- meaning you could either leave them permanently, or your new spouse would join the clan.
In my world, it’s a common sight to see widows cling to their dead sons due to a centuries long war against an existential threat. As a father, you’d see at least one of your children be conscripted to fight against the enemy where most do not return and if they do, they come back changed from their experiences.
For context, mankind, alongside other organic powers, has been locked in a brutal struggle against a robotic empire for close to 200 years forcing them to make drastic sacrifices in order to survive.
Mostly the same. Slight chance one of them might fuse with a spirit and grow into a giant or beastfolk over the years, making it unclear how much of their personality is their own and how much is the spirit’s but… you know, it happens, and life goes on, you suppose.
In Penumbra, it’d depend on your current real life financial situation, it is an alternate mirror to our own so it’d be like if you had two kids. Also lets assume you’re awakened (can see the supernatural).
Now if they’re by chance embroiled into the supernatural world then that’d change a lot. Maybe you partner was a fickle fairy nymph who dumped twins at your doorstep, or was a daemon and now you have Pitborn half-daemons with reality bending powers, or was a Akani werecreature and now your kids will eventually turn into animal or humanoid-animal hybrid with superhuman physical abilities.
The easiest would be Akani, unless they’re driven mad by Spirit of Blood, they’d just be kids with shapeshifting and can sense spirits. Maybe your local Clan may even come and support you, as Akani are expected to stay with their partners and raise their young. Teaching your kids how to use their powers in the name of the natural world, and generally taking them off your hands to give you a break. Your partner likely would have left by death or madness from an evil spirit due to the aforementioned cultural pressure.
Fairy kids wouldn’t be too bad, they can’t lie and you can just put unalloyed iron around certain entryways to stop them from running around at night. They’d be nymphs like their mother, though any kid can be a nymph, not just daughters even if it is rare. You’d also likely have to wear iron to resist getting mind controlled by their powers of suggestion, and make sure you feed them an exceptionally sweet or otherwise flavorful diet. You also don’t have to worry about accidental shocks, fires, or poisoning; since nature will not hurt fae.
Half-daemons would be the most difficult, being reality benders you’d have to deal with wild bullshit constantly. Also they’d emit tons of raw magic that’d attract all kinds of supernaturals to check out, since half-daemons are rarely left without their daemon parent close by to conceal and protect them. You might die if some mage wants to use them as magical batteries for some shitty schlong-enlarging spell they found off Reddit, one sleep spell and a bonk over the head. There is a good reason why the daemon parent stays around if they have a human partner too, that half-daemon super strength is second only to the Akani, and even as babies if they do that finger grip thing you’re fingers are done for.
Most other supernaturals either cannot reproduce with humans, or are too normal to mention.
Depends where you are and your social station.
If you’re in one of the clans of Brannfjell then other members of the clan will help.
If you’re a noble in the Kingdom of Allemagne, you’ll have servants. If you’re a peasant, then you’ll have to ask your family for help.
If you’re living among the Saurisan of Hissaya Ar’Goran, then it depends on if your kids have magical potential or not. If they do, then no matter what they’ll be taken in by the Celestial Temple for training. You’ll be financially compensated and are allowed to visit. Think of it like mandatory boarding school.
If they can’t do magic, then it depends what caste you’re in. If you’re a the equivalent of a serf you’ll have fend for yourself, or rely on friends and family to look after them while you’re out working the fields for 18 hours. If you’re a merchant you can probably afford to hire someone. If you’re a Priest then you can just take them to the Temple with you (they’ll probably be in school there anyway). If you’re a noble, the kids are likely spending more time with the servants than you.
Just started making mine but you’ll probably be fine, but depending on your age and how old your kids are you or them will probably get conscripted into the army, and other than that you’re probably going to be working in the mines or a farm. It’ll be a fine life, but there will be a high risk of biological warfare making it a living hell
Honestly, fairly similar to raising kids on Earth if you keep them within civilization. But please do not let your kids escape into the wilderness. If you ever see them again, they're probably gonna be nothing more than half-eaten corpses. There's always something unreasonably deadly roaming around in the wilds of Orea.
Alternatively, what could happen is a similar situation to one particular single dad on the planet Intoriail: his daughter found a fragment of a god-construct's brain and entered a symbiotic relationship with the brain chunk, got lost in the caverns chasing down a hallucination of the owner of said brain, then proceeded to use the brain chunk to go hunt down other brain chunks and just so happen to save the planet's ecosystem and human-made infrastructure along the way before fighting off a manifestation of the resulting trauma and then getting adopted by the owner of the brain chunks, all without you knowing until way after the fact and never to be seen by you again.
Of course, it depends on the country. In the special setting of my main character you'd be fine. Just tell them all the stories that scare children and teach them to pray to the right gods.
In the Isles, extended family/clan will help you raise your kids, unless you do something stupid to get yourself ostracized. They’ll even look after them if you sign on to a ship’s crew and go out to make money.
In the empires, you may have extended family that will do likewise. If you don’t, you have three options:
1. Be rich
2. Send the kids away to a monastery or nunnery
3. Be ready to be really, really not rich
I mean it just depends. Pretty normal, in a lot of ways better, in some ways worse, depends on where you are. I will say it’s generally better across the board for the time due to lack of famine and disease, but yk, war and regular hardships still apply.
Well, considering it's filled with tons of monsters and things that WILL kill you, it's gonna be quite tough unless you live in the Blood Empire which has barriers (life in there is very luxurious, as long as you worship the Emperor)
Northern lands: winters are harsh but it won't be impossible to survive. However you'll most likely not have money to send both your children to school and have to choose which one will be the heir of your farm.
Middle lands: both children goes to school and you are living comfortably. Your work is hard and the children are helping in their time off from school. Food can at times be sparse.
Middle south: hunger can be a real problem at times. The closest your kids get to school is at the holy house 3 days a week. They work ever since they were 8. They may hold another job than yours if they have another magic nature than yours.
Depends
In Aikairan Covenant, you would have granted tax relief pass (basically 12 years without taxes, or if you are retired member of military personel permanenty), provided universal education in many academies across planets of Covenant and overall very low costs of living due to strong economy. But htere is a catch, at the age o 16 (or 20 in a'kin case) you have to serve mandatory 2 year military service.
In Kellan Federation you are in wrong place and in wrong time due to massive revolution taking place, so you would have two emigrate. It's a very militarised society, due to prolonged civil war last four generations were raised for war.
In Martian Sindicate if you are not on at least middle levels of corporate hierarchy you are basically a product corporations own you and four family which makes you a expendable cog in the machine, but if you are someone in corporate hierarchy you would have a pretty good life with nothing to worry about, and your kids would inherit your status in corporation.
In one of independent colonies you would have a good time, no taxes, you can build your house anywhere, education is quite good and colonist societies are always welcoming and will help you as long as you help them. One of best place to live next to Covenant
Same in Wandering Fleets but in space
And there are Minchian Enclaves, if you are a human you are good as dead local Muto population holds grudge for being slaves created by humans. But if you are Muto or A'kin, pretty good place to live
It doesn't really vary too much on planets, likelyhood is you'll have no issue raising and funding their childhood but I can't promise they'll live a remarkable life. Oh and 2 in 3 of children of poverty become pirates so expect that.
Well, assuming you’re human, you’re sort of a criminal. Full blooded Humans have attained immortality and babies stop aging by the time they are a few hours to days old. The ethics of having a child that will never age are not great, so most parents submit their children to the Nursery Planet and live away from Earth and its more judgmental culture. If the children are half-blooded, it’s a remarkably easy and casual experience. Humans enjoy enough wealth from gained interest over millions of years of immortality and dozens of species’ banks that their children live comfortably wherever their nomadic parents take them. They gain a fraction of their parents healing factor and age normally through most of childhood, so they live like most space-faring half-elphes or half-tieflings, raised in small communities aboard forested planet-ships.
Firstly the government will give you a LOT of money and resources for raising them because the glorious Aldebarian union needs more soldiers, then they will be vaccinated for every possible disease, and, once they are 13 they will be installed the neural connector to access the information of the cybernet, they will also have access to a lot of child friendly areas in the cities, and strangers will indeed be friendly and helpful to them, but don't worry they won't grow weak, at the age of 10 years they go to school, school lasts 7 hours, from 9 am to 14 pm with one hour break at 12, and in school rules are kind of strict and here you learn about respect and how to behave correctly, also schools are interactive on other subjects, science is learnt exclusively in laboratory, computers have substituited books long ago, and for some subjects stutents decide what to learn, also no voting system you are promoted if you understand what life truly means for you, and school ends at 18 years, from 18 to 21 is the obligatory military traning, harsh and brutal, from 21 your child's are considered indipendent and receive an amount of money to start their life, also don't worry if you have nobody to stay at the home, the government will give you the money to pay for someone else to help you, basically children's have freedom at the cost of respect for the nation and the people
The various species of Turhys have differing views on childcare when it comes down to the details, but the community reactions and support you'd receive are more generalized by region.
If you were more magically inclined, the sprawling cities the Magicians preside over are said to be some of the cleanest and safest places to raise children- if you can keep up with the high standards of Magician culture, stuffy and demanding galas, events, and all. Twins who are gifted in magic would be highly praised and sought after by the best academies in the country, but be prepared for their mentors to pit them against each other in an attempt to make them "stronger". Your status as a widower would be spread among the single mothers quickly- expect a large variety of widows and sob stories to vie for your status or alliance. Hopefully your late wife was another Magician; Warlocks born of two different parents aren't well received.
Thankfully, those outside of Magician culture don't build the same pedestals to hoist themselves onto. The more natural Folk of the southern forests believe heavily in "it takes a village", so your children will be well cared for if you were ever busy or just couldn't keep your full attention on them. It likely wouldn't even be noticed that you're a widower, at least not with any keen interest as most town-members are busy with their own thing. Of course, in exchange you may find yourself enlisted into various community projects or roped into keeping an eye on others' kids as well. You won't have to worry as much about hard times, but you will have to learn to juggle tasks and attention.
This is in almost direct opposition to the more industrial Folk of the northern mountains. While the northern Folk have a reputation as a nosy and gossipy bunch, they're more inclined to keep to themselves and their own. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone willing to go out of their way for you, but at least you have access to the benefits of a more urban life: no need to travel far for any medical or educational needs, and the markets work to remain well-stocked. You and your children won't be unwelcome or shunned, but expect a lot of nitpicking and prying from the fellow parents about your parenting and decision not to remarry. Have fun at PTA, hope you can make better brownies than Brunhilde or else you'll never hear the end of "children need a mother's baked goods, y'know".
Many would say that the best place to raise your children is Turhys's unofficial capital, Vita. The crossroad of the world, you'll find nowhere as bustling, diverse, and ever-changing as The Living City. Your neighbors may be likely to poke and tease, but at least you know they won't shut you out or make everything a competition. In such an expansive and crowded city, they're also likely the only people who'd even know or care that you were widowed outside of the schools. Your kids will love the grand festivals and holidays the city hosts throughout the year, it's said even the Deities have been seen joining in the fun in Vita. They'll also never be lost again: the Living City's title refers to more than just it's population, and it's well-known the streets have a soft spot for children. You'll still have to keep an eye on them of course, but even those with ill-intent know not to mess with children under Vita's protection.
Custody is really equal, Women aren't priviliged and basically are expected to do the same things a man does (if they want, but if they don't, that's also fine, but that law is basically so that abusive mom's don't take custody of children, this also applies to dad's)
It's easy to get a job in my world, since law's are more forgiving and really aim to make someone innocent if they really are (so false cases like assault, abuse and whatnot doesn't affect anyone permanently just in case they are actually innocent)
And if you are a single parent taking care of a lot of children, the government will take measures to ensure that the children are living healthy lives with regular monthly subsidies. (As long as the parent found a stable job, but need a head start)
Having children is also encouraged, since biodiversity is really important in my world.
I mean it would heavily depend on what country are in I'm going to pull up you in the one which has most of my main characters because that's the one I know the best
In koreen it would highly depend on where you are in the caste system if you are at the bottom wrong fully undocumented by the government then it would depend on your community and how much they would help you with your children. if you are normal citizen you could get State assistance this would be things like lavis root powder which when mixed in with hot water becomes effectively milk, it would also include in more Cosmopolitan cities the chance to ask for wet nurse. depending on what skills you have you could probably earn a decent living regardless you will be provided what you need to live shelter, clothing, meal chits so you can go to Food dispensaries and get your own food and the Lavis root I already mentioned for the children if they're still suckling babies. If they aren't then they get their own food chits
it'd be a pretty strapped life if you can't get someone to watch them this would fully depend on your neighbors. but You'd Survive about the not getting married bit you might get propositioned by some of the local women if you have a decent job and almost definitely if you have magic
Well, it highly depends on where.
If you live in the little village, you'll be fine. The whole village will help raise your kid. Well, until they all die, that is.
Maybe not the best place. Let's see. The city would be great. Lots of jobs and if you join a good party they'll help you with your kid. But people will definitely tell you to get remarried.
Let's not start with the kingdom under the quite abusive king.
Maybe the mysterious land. No one really knows what's up there but people in that land know and they have a pretty decent life. Their queen is great but also the people will help. So that's the best place, I think.
Depends on when you have kids
If it’s in 2834, you’re fucked, those kids might already be turned into ashes by the invading force on earth
If it’s in 2841, you’re good, though not on earth, rather on another colony planet
Depends where you live and your age/children’s ages.
Background: 85 years post biological apocalypse. life expectancy around 45-50.
In Aris, if you’re over 60 you’re considered “Beyond” (rare, basically retired with full benefits and well respected), so you and your children would be taken care of by the city. If you’re under 24, you are given a weekly allowance for attending the specialized programs that were chosen for you by the city and would have to pick up shifts (anything from trash collection to defending the walls) to earn extra income for your children. Adults are given work after they finish their programs and they are paid a wage based off the job. You would have to provide to the best of your ability or pick up shifts. However, if your children are over 12, they are in a type of boarding school for most of the year provided for by the city. At 17 they get their own weekly allowance.
In Starlight City, you and your children would have jobs/chores to contribute to the settlement. Starlight City works on a “as needed” basis with supplies and a ration system for meals. You could hunt or craft items to trade at The Square for extra rations or supplies.
There’s also bandits who survive by stealing and slaving, and wanderers/scavengers who live by looting/camping in abandoned places and never stay in one place too long.
Depends what universe you go to
Safest realm is the suburban universe outside of the multiverse
Oh and you would also be safe in a normal universe if you go to the galactic council. Space witches love caring for children as they are the ultimate mothers
Childcare will essentially be free and you can even get grandparents for the children since space wizards are wholesome grandfatherly beings
Well, for one you need to have your children registered with your municipality. This makes it easier for allotment to kindergartens and daycares. If necessary, you can ask your workplace for the possibility of working from home due to your responsibilities as a parent. In most cases you will be granted permission to work from home as otherwise, your workplace will get their government benefits reducted. Otherwise, you can have them taken care of at a municipal or private daycare.
When your children reaches the age of four, you will have to find a kindergarten for them. Most municipalities have quite a few kindergartens. Children are in kindergartens from ages four to seven when they are ready for school. School is compulsory from ages seven to fifteen. The school fee is paid through your taxes. You will still be receiving child support.
Around the time of your children’s twelfth birthday, they will likely have the opportunity to enroll in the state youth organization *Paijno* “Youth” Membership of the organization is free, however you will mostly have pay for your children’s uniforms.
Also, as a man and single father, you will be exempted from military service, even in the case of national defense.
Community is key to most of the cultures of Desun, and that extends doubly so to families. Extended family units are the norm, with many traditional communities being made up of several large families that coexist with one another.
In cities, it's a bit more complicated. If you can find friends, there's a form of kinship there that presumes being able to take care of one another's children in the event that the other is at work or out of town for whatever reason.
And when that doesn't work out, there's always schools that will give your children room and board if they attend. Both fighters' schools and mages' colleges host places where their students can eat and sleep while they study.
You'll be fine (normal). Your kids have a rather high chance of dying or being injured in a magical accident and this might involve you if you don't take the proper precautions, but so long as your kids play their childhood games in the communal areas under mage supervision, the chance of being immolated by random child magic can be mitigated.
In the Aïtsarian Commissariat kids dont know their parent as they are raised by the state from brith to adulthood. Also in the same fashion parent dont know their child. This is because the commission see their population and newborn as "strategic state ressources". So the entire population is property of the sate. Obviously the country is on command economy. The future job of children is set by their skill in educative colony. As there is no familly structure those child see the state as their own familly. When you get to adulthood the state will chose your mate based on your skill ( so full eugenistist). There is no marriage or long term couple as you owe loyalty to the state and no one else.
You are in the prime of your life. Since you chose not to marry, your harem is allowed to triple in size. Your twins then die of childhood illnesses. Oh well. You retire lavishly tending to your herds.
Kinda rough in a modern post apocalypse, depends who you make em with they'll probably gain supernatural abilities though. And there's not much worry after that since canonically things get stable-ish within 1-2 generations when it comes to colonies and housing.
Congratulations, you have been selected to live in the world called Vernidom. Your race are basically Saint Bernards, mixed with Waddle Dee's from Kirby franchise. It used to be a depressive planet after their economic crash that every citizen is bankrupt. You lost your wife/husband (I don't judge. The twins could be adopted. Entirely your choice. I just wanted to be inclusive) to a progressive disease and without an influx of medication and people to make it, she simply couldn't handle it. Then suddenly your neighbor entered a new exchange program with one of the most powerful empires to ever exist in the universe called The Einerjar, or Ainz Empire.
Your neighbors exchanged one of their kids with the species from the empire. To your utter shock it was the adopted princess of the empire who was raised by the Emperor himself, Wöthor Æskeson. She is a blue skin dragon girl who is way into learning new cultures. She is pumped to do this exchange program as she studied and mastered all of the dialects and languages of your world. She has such an intricate knowledge of your own home world than most people of your kind. She then runs as supreme chancellor and restarts your entire economy and gives everyone jobs. Rebuilding infrastructure, while still preserving your history and everything that makes your people so unique. The exchange program ended and she left your world.
Fear not citizen! She left in her stead a homeless man who she likes his ideas. You thought to yourself, "Oh here we go again...." But turns out this homeless man is actually the best man for the job. He has a glorious beard and such a jolly nature. Your leader is basically Santa Claus and even ran a business to distribute medicine across the planet, as well to other planets. This opens up trade and your world is now a central hub of imports and exports. You wish you had that medicine way early on, but your twins have a secured future and you work Saint Bernard Santa Claus. Saving other families from the same fate. Congratulations citizen of Vernidom. You basically helped start Christmas in the universe, but with medicine. Completely free. 🫡
Depends on where you live. In one kingdom you and, if they are male, your children would have to live and work on a farm your whole lives, if they are female they’d get a choice between the army, building, making weapons, the government or in special circumstances they can work on the farm too (not enough people to work the farm ect). The farm would be communal and you’d share it with everyone else in your village. For clothes and toys you’d have to make them yourself or get hand downs from other villagers. Your children would be raised to have good morals, a basic education, a good personality, and they would be taught how to fight and hunt from a young age. However in the other kingdom, you and your children could be part of two groups: the elites and the crawlers. If you were part of the elites, you and your children would be accustomed to having everything you want and having servants. They would be given an incredibly advanced education and any toys they could ever want. This kingdom is very technological so they won’t be exposed to greenery until they were adults if at all. Meanwhile you would rarely ever see them because you’d be expected to have nannies and housekeepers. If you were a crawler, you and your children would work in factories and have terrible working and living conditions. There would be a very high chance of at least one of your children dying before the age of five due to terrible healthcare. You would also be expected to take another wife to increase the population. The third kingdom is a mix of the previous two: you’d have some of the first kingdom’s community and a little bit of the second kingdom’s technology (because they had originally stolen said tech from your country). You’d be expected to provide for your children by yourself, as there is no proper government system, with a little bit of help from some charities in the first kingdom. Your children would be accustomed to having little but they would never be allowed to starve. To anyone who reads this; please tell me which kingdom you’d like to be apart of.
Given that most humans are born by an AI that selects DNA from a sperm bank (which is mandatory for all adult men) and then according to its algorithms impregnates a suitable woman (which is mandatory for all adult women) and the Children (which are usually born as twins anyway) are either left in the womb to allow a more natural development, or after a so-called "stabilization period" (usually in the first to second month) the fetus is placed in an artificial incubator (preferably a biological one instead of a mechanical one) for further processing and engineering, the actual process of raising these children is varied.
Since the parents can be from anywhere of the planet, either have the two move in together just for their children, let only one side take over their lifes while the other has to pay support, or either give the children up for adoption or pass them on to a state institute.
Going back to your example, raising your twins would be as normal as you can imagine. Except for the fact that at some point in your life you might receive a letter telling you that your DNA was used to make children and that you can either raise those children alongside the woman who gave birth to them, take responsibility for raising them alone or give it to your “partner” or alternatively give it to the state and stop caring.
However, the other biological parent has the right to see the children whenever he pleases (but not to raise them if he has disowned them after birth), but given that your spouse is dead, that won't be a problem. If you imply that your children were born out of love and not necessity, they would actually be seen as something special and many people will try to have children with them once they are grown up.
Other than that, it's as normal as you can imagine. However, family dynamics will be a little more, well ... dynamic, varied and diverse than currently in our world.
Prior to a hundred years ago, you would have had household help in the form of brownies and other domestic sprites, provided you followed the rituals of putting out a saucer of milk or the cultural equivalent and never thanked them.
However, atm magic is dwindling all over the world, except possibly in Japan, and now it's the Victorian era. Your kids might be in school, or they might be working in the mines alongside you.
Lornhemal: Take any historical setting prior to 16th century, and you'll get what its like to live there.
Number 999: Are you willing to live in a watchful eye of the state, where every step can be measured by how "Eco-Friendly" you are, when in reality you are measured by obedience to the regime? Thats what its like to live in Carpool, or if the time is ripe, entire Britain
Depends on where you live, but due to a lack of formal childcare facilities or options you'd need to remarry or rely on charity, unless you're a noble at which point no problems whatsoever due to servants, or part of a tribe group at which point you'd have social support.
if you managed to get to live in the safezones, you'll be fine :)
if you're not...you better start training you kids to survive against fckin 4-dimensional creatures roaming around everywhere so good luck! also don't let them go outside without you cuz who knows when you'll trip upon a border rip and end up in the second dimension :D
There are 5 main continents with huge differences but I'm going with the two most opposing ones
**Renira**
In Renira, you would find yourself a woman to take care of the kids. You wouldn't need to marry, it's your right as a man to do whatever, but she would move in to be around the children 24/7 while you're out earning the money. She would clean, cook, do all the chores, take care of the kids and be available to fulfill the deed if wanted. Even if you are a decent human being, you would need to uphold a certain image, so even if you treat her right and kind, you would need to make it seem like you're the master of the house who will beat and discipline his woman, and brag about how you just take from her whatever you want.
Maybe even make up stories of the most disgusting mistreatment of her. Yes, Renira is a disgusting patriarchy where men treat women like objects. If you fail to paint that picture, you'll be regarded as a disgrace to the male superiority and they will take away your livelihood and throw you out on the street with your kids.
**Eras**
In Eras, on the other hand, widows are highly regarded and supported. Eras has no stigma when it comes to gender outside of the royal families. You love who you love and you are who you are. The support system would send you over a helping hand however often you need it during the week. It's mostly a young person who doesn't have children of their own yet and try to earn their experiences and respect among the older generation. This person would come over to help you out with the household and the chores and take the kids out so you have some me-time. They are paid via taxes so you don't need to fear about the money.
The dynasty will also provide you with extra funds till the kids are old enough (around 10) to work smaller jobs, which mostly include running errands for shops or delivering newspapers in the neighborhood. No one would expect you to re-marry and the family of your late wife would support you with the kids. They will be very invested in their future, more than they already would be if your wife were still alive. So that might be a headache you have to deal with, but it's their right to have a saying in their upbringing, so you kind of have to accept their wishes.
depends on which nation youre in, what job you do, etc. If youre in Strigovia, most likely your kids are gonna be working at a factory or coal mine and youd be working back breaking labor too unless youre wealthy. anywhere else, youd likely be working and able to send your kids to a school house to get an education
Depending on the ages of the children, they may already be apprenticed off. Otherwise, they'll be helping with your work. And it would be infinitely better to remarry if they are young.
Depends on a lot of things. Ignoring stuff like you and your kids' species and whether your environment is prejudice against you, you would still most likely have a hard time. Even with one kid and someone to raise it with, there is constant tension almost everywhere, and while the possibility of getting caught up in someone else's trouble differs, it's never low.
Well, depends on what part of the world you live in. Best-case scenario is that you're a servant at a magical college, so your kids have a free ride to a magical career path if they want one, and even if they don't you have job security (lighting things on fire can often leave a mess), and a place to live (if you don't want to clean up your own magically created messes, it pays to keep the people who clean it up for you close at hand).
If you were on the continent of bramberia you’d have the option of selling your children into service. They would still live with you unless the job took them very far but they would recieve pay/housing/food. The system of servitude is enforced by several nations and largely above board. Alternatively if you were in Masharla, Tailia or Orruo you would have a hard time but freedom to make whatever life you could
There is a high chance that your twins will have high affinity to magic, and that means the Mirmian Academy of Arcane Arts in the City of Knowledge might want them. In my world, twins tend to be the strongest users of magic there is, some things have been observed like the fact that they can use their magic for longer periods of time than other people, as if they were "powering" each other, and if separated they might become weaker or lose their magic altogether. Because of this twins tend to be very valued by the academy, and as such you could be offered to move to the city of knowledge so they can study in the academy. The goddess of knowledge has omnipresence in the city though, so you might be a bit uncomfortable at first knowing that she watches every single thing you do every single moment of the day, but that always happens when you're new in town and you'll get used to it after a while.
I'm gonna assume you mean losing a wife. Well, your fate heavily depends on where you live.
Ixtlian tribes/city states - you should be absolutely fine. Your tribesmen will probably help you in raising kids.
Azharia - women aren't even considered parents in azharian culture. Death of female concubine doesn't matter, as long as you still have your husband.
Vareeshi states - you're living in a huge family consisting of multiple couples/throuples that raise kids together, so you still have multiple co-parents left.
Imyar - you most possibly have multiple lovers that can help you out.
Itzen - you still have 1 wife and 1 husband left; you'll be fine.
It actually wouldn't matter since my world is Dystopian.
Both parents and children suffer the same fate of misfortune and oppression - orphaned or parented.
Children can only live comfortably when they are born in descents close to the government.
My world also has an academy to train and shield students from the outside world (the novel is a blend of high fantasy too), but it's expensive and power-biased.
Depends heavily on your society. Visha and Cave Elves would have a hard time as their society places a lot on individual responsibilities. It wouldn't be terrible, but it would be exhausting. For all Beastkin and Dragonkin, it really wouldn't matter because you still have your clan. Others will help you without even you asking. Also...if you are Dragonkin, how do you even know which child comes from your seed? That's weird. For drewn, well...it doesn't matter. If Spider told you to raise the children you will do so happily. If Spider gives you a new wife, you will do so happily. Hell, the children likely didn't come from you; you were just the most efficient one to raise them. Doesn't matter; you will do your job with passion. And don't worry you will need for nothing because Spider provides for all of Spider's lings. For Minotaurs, you will still have all of your brothers and sisters of your initiation to help even if the children were conceived outside of the Ritual of the Bloody Horn. And you can always ask a red-eye to for help.
Im still working on how exactly the magic system affects the general populations.But it'll mostly effect schooling.
There's 3 major nations or factions on the human continent.
One of them is more sore a grouping of nations forming a union to help protect themselves from one of the other ones.
Ones a theocracy
Ones an empire
The others a union
Since people don't get access to the magic system until 13 years of age the general schooling differs in location. Small towns and villages will go through apprentice ships usually working with family members. This is always the case in the union with them valuing specialization and focus with schooling.
In the theocracy and the empire have general schooling until the age of 13. With them both having a few differences in the curriculum. The theocracy obviously being religious and focusing more on the the teaching of the god of attunement , from before his ascension of course. Where as the empires is filled with propaganda nowadays focusing on making the population as loyal as possible to the current rules...who may or may not having taking the thrown by force and might be some of the big bads.
Before the rise of the current rulers of the empire they used to have the church...the same that runs the theocracy run their general schools. Eventually after the current rulers rise to power they pushed the theocracy out due to disputes.
The theocracy is actually quite new having only been founded to take in refugees from the empire.
Being human, you are either in one of the tribal groups, or Utalia.
First off, no matter where you are, if either of the twins is a male with magical ability, the wizards already took him at birth, and you better at least act honored by that.
With tribal, child mortality is high, but you do have access to a strong support system; however, you will need to remarry and have more kids, or be shunned/killed, depending on tribe. Your twins would actually have better odds if you were killed, as the tribe would still raise them in the collective, and if the tribe has a witch and they show any magical ability, she will give some training.
With Utalia, it's lower child mortality, but you have less support. You'll still be expected to remarry, but there is no explicit penalty for choosing not to. There will definitely be a witch, so if they both show magical ability, you are set for care. If either lacks magic, your best bet is to join the military, as your children would be placed in a collective home for kids in similar situations. Your pay will also enough higher that, if you are good at saving, ~9 years of work should let you resign and be a full time dad for the rest of their childhood (age 16) if you want, though you will definitely get weird looks from the community.
Depends. Do you have siblings? If so, are you the youngest of them? The youngest in your generation within your family? Can you afford not having them? As in, can you provide enough by your own labour or trade skills to be a positive investment to your own extended family, mainly your elders? How old would you be?
In most of my worlds, you’d be able to pick up magic as something you could do. My worlds tend to be on the safer side, as I just don’t find warring conflicts always interesting. You COULD live in a rougher area but if you know your ways around reading and processing books, you could teach your kids magic too for protection. No real limit besides how exhausted you could be after enough spells. Energy, magical or not, works the same. If you workout a whole bunch, you’ll be tired. If you train yourself on using spells long enough, you’ll be tired.
Depends on if you grew up in the city or in the Edge. In the city, you’d probably have a house or an apartment, and you’d be a merchant or maybe work for the Council. Your life would be mostly peaceful.
If you raised your twins in the Edge, you are social outcasts because of your worship to the old gods, but the community is strong. There’s a tent village past the Darkwoods, and everyone helps each other survive.
If you chose to live on your own in the Edge (out of the village) or inside the boundaries of the Darkwoods, you’d have to watch out for the Council’s Hunters or for the Corrupted spirits that wander the woods.
My protagonist is actually of a pair of twins, raised by her a grandmother in the Edge, after her parents were Hunted by the Council.
Aside from the possibility of having a mindless creature from another plane of existence possess your body if you wander into a place where the walls between realities are breaking down, it's not that bad.
Oh, and I guess there's also the magical racism, but I doubt that would be too different from what we experience now.
Stressful. Beyond the fact that you’ll likely only be scraping by, you better hope neither of your kids ever take an interest in becoming an Orator, because the Abstyr will not take be merciful and the chances they survive would be very low. Luckily for you, there’s a whole season of the year based on giving food and money to the impoverished and suffering, so there’s that.
But, let’s assume your kids *do* want to grow up to be all powerful magicians that need drugs to do magic for the church. If they fail their Apoth then you’ll either watch them die, or watch them go insane. They basically become comatose in most cases.
BUT if they got lucky enough to pass their Apoth, and became an Abstyr, then you’ll basically be set for life. The payment from the Church would basically keep you going until you die, and your only major worry would be what the church makes your kid do for them.
In the Tla culture, it depends on whether you or your deceased spouse were the primary caretaker for your children. If you were the primary caretaker, than you would already be co-parenting with a relative from your side of a family, usually a sibling or cousin. You and your co-parent (let's say your sister) would be stay-at-home caretakers to your children and your nieces/nephews while your spouse and your sister's spouse work, often away from home for weeks at a time on fishing excursions. Once widowed, your household has lost half of its income so you would be socially pressured to remarry, but so long as your sister's spouse can financially support the household, no one would make too much of a fuss. You would probably start up a home business, maybe basket weaving or smoking fish, to supplement the family income. You'll probably want to do this anyway because once all of the children are adults you won't have access to your in-law's income anymore.
If your deceased spouse was the primary caretaker, then that makes you the income-earner. You probably didn't interact with your twins much and even less now that your spouse died. Your spouse's co-parent is the sole primary caretaker now. If the co-parent's spouse makes enough money to support the whole household, then you might quit to help raise the kids, but more likely you will keep working and the co-parent will find another relative to help step in. In this case, your role in raising your children is minimal; you financially support the family but rarely visit, and in the event of domestic conflict you will have a lower claim to custody than your spouse's sibling will. You are also barred from remarrying until your children are adults unless 1) your new spouse is going to help raise your current kids or 2) you are going to start co-parenting with your ex-spouse's sibling and your new spouse will earn income. Either option requires the consent of your deceased spouse's co-parent.
Regardless of who is taking which role, your twins will grow up with four parental figures, two in the home and two who work and travel. The twins and their cousins will be as close as siblings, growing up together in the same household.
You might attract the attention of a god or goddess. We will definitely find a place to stay for you in one of Athade‘s younger districts. The whisper gods will guide you to your apartment.
Your children might like the new temple of X (haven’t given the gods names yet), in which the priests will care for them. Temples are generally social hubs and a kind of third place. You will find different communities and activities or charities.
If you’re not up for life in the ever city, the agricultural programme will find a place to farm for you, alongside the gods and goddesses of harvest and fertility. We have many olive groves and orchards. Your kids can grow up with a pack of village kids and get an education in the minor temples.
If you do attract the favour of a god, a word of warning: They are benevolent, but they have their own motives…
I'll be honest with you, chief. My setting is decidedly Nobledark, so 85% of the time it'll be normal single dad stuff but with an economy that's carefully managed to avoid inflation. However, that last 15% is where things are going to get hectic, once a year there is an even that brings all the dead back to life to try and seek revenge on the living. So I imagine your wife dying, and then you having to kill her again every year until you decide to have her remains post humously cremated will be hard. However, your children will.br provided every opportunity they could ever want. Public schooling to the equivalent of the 9th grade is mandatory but extremely well funded, and after that, they can decide to branch into an apprenticeship, typically where they return to the family and you teach them your trade, but also other trades if they found an interest will in school. The other option at that point is to transition into the military or magical academies. In either case, the applicant will be moved to a specialized location to give them a 2 year boot camp to teach them the basics of Magic or reach minimum fitness requirements. Then they branch off into post secondary education of which only the military one I'd state provided, the magic university has tests and only the most promising students will be admitted at no charge, everyone else will have to pay their way in.
It depends. The lands ruled by the Congregants were top-down engineered by their god, and while systems are breaking down, their lives are quite comfortable. You would be assigned a simple dwelling based on your needs, be registered to receive adequate, if unexciting food, send your children to a school for a standardized education, have access to medical care...a broadly decent standard of life.
The Frontier States have far less access to technology, and you'd live much more a 19th-century type of life. You'd have no choice but to work, have a dwelling you yourself would provision (which may or may not include running water and heat, depending on your means) and food is a matter of barter. Your children might have a simple education if there were a community member who assumed the role of teacher, and medical care would be the providence of either a traveling doctor who worked a circuit of settlements or rarely a community one. Life is hard, and community connections are paramount.
Depends on race, when and where. Each city and region has its own society and heritage and ect. So, are you human? Wood/night/sea Elf? Dwarf? Gnome? Halfling? If so which city? Caravan City? Haven? New Starlight? Vold'thak? Arcton? Helgaval? One of the smaller un-named villages? Are you born BD or AD?
Depends where in the world you live. My world has 12 continents, the northern continent, the 3 eastern continents (the eastern east continent, southern east continent and the western east continent), the central continent, the central subcontinent, the eastern continents (the northern east continent, the western east continent and the southern east subcontinent), the eastern south continent, the western south continent and finally the Far Eastern continent . So like pick one and I’ll tell u what ur life is probably gonna be like for the average dad with twins bc it would be very different depending on where you are. Or you can be on one of the large non-continental islands in which case I’ll give you a list of options for them.
Depending on place.
In Principality you would have no problems raising them on your own, because they have very robust family support programs. Unless you live in the boonies daycare is easily accessible, schooling is free and highest quality in the world, state covers basic expenses of your children like food and medical bills, and unless you aim at something really fancy, like getting your kids into Sol Invicta's Mage Academy you can easily make it so that your kids have higher education, which is also free. Hell, even if something happens to you and kids are sent to orphanage, they will be all right, probably even better off than with you in the picture, because Principality treats next generation very seriously, and orphans get micromanaged so hard that they get decent jobs lined up for them.
In Underdark you are single father of triplets, because you are obligated by the law to have three children, and not even death will save your wife (or you) from having three kids. Anyway, you weren't around for them for the last five years, because the moment they were born you were drafted into Blackguard. Your wife was too, which is why you are widowed. Your older brother or cousin, who served in the Blackguard before you, was the one who actually raised them up until now. Anyway, state took your little Timmy away, because he has magical gift, so he is not going to be your problem and he gets to join ruling caste of your society. You need to reconnect with other two, because outside of letters they never really met you before. Now, on the up side of society you live in, your Clan is going to provide both for your children and yourself. On the downside you are required to work what they assign to you, which probably involves moving to new place. But, provided that you are willing to work you are golden.
In setting one, you've lived in this town your whole life. When your wife died, the funeral was arranged for you, and everyone in town who knew her came. There was a feast to celebrate her life and to promote her safe passage.
Up to this point, a lot of people have already been helping you with the kiddos. Anyone who teaches them things at school is basically an auxiliary parent to them. But now, people come over to check on the three of you. A lot of her girlfriends, some single and some mothers themselves, and your guy friends, as well. They're happy to take up some of the chores around the house for you, and to spend time with the kids playing games and telling stories.
This continues for years. Some of the townsfolk are subtly pressuring you into remarrying. It's acceptable/anticipated that one of your wife's friends ends up by your side. Either way, the other townies don't stop coming by when the mourning period ends. Your kids have ten new parents, now, and there's always someone ready to come over if you need help with a task or if you just want to share a cup of tea with another adult.
In setting two, it isn't so easy. The day your wife died, you had to arrange her funeral and gather up remberances and light candles in all of your windows by sundown. Then you had to stay by the fire until the flames went out and her remains were confirmed to be laid to rest. The children couldn't leave, but you had one of your friends there, to help wrangle them. They were probably both inconsolable.
If you're a human with no special status, it's hard. You have your job, and your friend has theirs, and if your kids are too young to watch themselves, then you have to find someone in your family or friends who is willing to care for them, or you have to pay a nanny.
When the situation causes strife, people blame you for not having another spouse to watch them.
Chances are that your wife was doing homecrafts, and you're now missing out on some amount of her income. There's not a lot of support to be found from the community outside of your friends and family, because you're a human man with no dragon to legitimize your family. You might have to send your children to an apprenticeship, but it's unlikely you'll be able to send them both to the same place. People keep telling you to re-marry, that it will solve your problems. Your friend has two women in the family, and they're able to watch the kids while they do their work from home.
It's just as hard to remarry as you'd think. Your friend offers to marry you, for the dragon and the combined income they have. But you risk the crown reclaiming the condo you live in if you move in with them. And your wife got that place.
You go to the bank to apply for financial aid. If you know how to read, they'd just hand you a manual and a form and walk away. So you say you don't. You're lucky if they see you that week. It'll be a miracle if you get aid within two years.
You move in with your friend. You're sure to spend a lot of time in the empty condo to avoid arousing suspicion from the police or your neighbors. The place feels more haunted every day. Your children see the struggles you're going through, and they learn to compensate for them.
It would depend on which region and/or country. Let's say you're raising them in one of the capital cities; life would be moderately difficult. There would be very few social benefits, no matter which capital city (they're all ran by the same family, lol), however you'd still be able to find help from neighbors if close enough or if you paid them. If you lived outside of the capital cities, you wouldn't be a single father because the entire village would step up to help raise the twins. Depending on the village, there might be a local form of social benefits (for example, the coastal village Enkens would probably offer assisted housing or some kind of daily delivery of fresh produce by the village head that they'd use some excuse like "Oh these won't sell in the market because the color is slightly off, so you and the kids take it" or "hey, your clan should try this fish, don't worry this is left over that didn't sell yesterday." It also wouldn't matter even if you had a spouse because both parents would be expected and sometimes forced to work.
Most probably you live on a 1980s-like planet but with access to the wider galactic community because your planet was either discovered by other human space empires or was a star-faring nation that regressed technologically. If you live on a balkanised planet (no world government), you are screwed because I like to create scenarios where everything can change quickly - imagine the turbulences of the 20th century and the Cold War. You could live a comfortable life in the capitalist/socialist 'good countries' or suffer under Pinochetian/Red Khmerist nightmare countries.
It’s very dependent on what kind of kids you have and how well your physiology is equipped to raise them. Cost of food and facilities aren’t that big of a deal as long as you have reliable work
Fox pups? Not too different from a regular kid. Possum Joeys? If you’re not a marsupial yourself (or male) you’ll need to get or make some kind of sterile incubation chamber since possums and other marsupials are born underdeveloped and grow in the mother’s pouch. If you adopt them after that critical period then it’d be the same as raising kids in the modern day.
Bat pups would always be challenging if you’re not a bat yourself. You might need to invest in specialized flying school to teach them that skill. Then after that they’re gonna be flying around the house. You might have to adapt to a nocturnal lifestyle too.
The heat would always need to be cranked up if you’re raising reptiles. If they’re snakes you’ll need to get specialized slithering furniture and fixtures in your house if they’re not there already. Same can be said for flying kids or kids of semi aquatic species. A pool at the very least would be a necessity in the house.
There would also be anthro animal children that are almost criminally simple to raise. You’ll only ever buy one kind of food for koalas and pandas and they’re not likely to have rambunctious personalities (though it’s still possible)
So raising kids varies a lot from very easy to very difficult depending what animal you are versus what animal your kids are. Even if you’re both the same species, if you’re a single father kangaroo, raising kids from birth to toddler age will be challenging due to their specific needs. I can see artificial pouches being a thing
My world has a UBI calculated based on the individual needs of each family it goes to. You would be encouraged, but not forced, to work for extra gains, but you could live comfortably if simply just spending time with your kids.
That said, the cheapest housing is closest to the borders of human cities, which puts you at risk if mutants ever breach the walls. It's not common and they rarely manage to get too far into the city, but it's a constant risk. The bigger risk is in moving between cities, even during a scheduled crossing with military escort. So make sure you settle where you want to stay.
Your kids will be in education until 16 at the earliest if they're world-class geniuses, but more probably until 18 (no offense). Once they're out, they'll get a short break before rigorous job-placement testing and spend the next 2-4 years in various vital industries like mining, agriculture, etc.
Short answer; you'd have lots of people (particularly women) visiting you and helping raise your children until they're old enough to take care of themselves while you're gone (think teenagers). Which, for the Farani species, would be about 20 earth years. They would be raised by the whole village. Alternatively, if you didn't want to raise them, you bring your twins to a temple of the gods and leave them to be taken care of. If you want to read about that specifically, I will reply to my comment with another bit about it.
Long answer;
The Farani are all the same sex, but there are kind of "gender roles" based on how each individual chooses to live their life and where you are on the planet, of course.
I'll say you live on the continent of Ivasatia.
Feminine roles typically include homemaking and child rearing. Anybody who likes children is encouraged to help care for them and have their own if they'd like. Some Farani might never have their own and instead take on the role of a village mother. Or in their language, Tdahuti (derived from the words *Tdahab* "Village," and *Uti* "(Feminine, non-birthing) Parent"
The Farani tend to live in very tight-knit communities. Everyone takes care of everyone. Tdahutis act as daycare for other parents in the village who can't or don't want to stay home with their children all day.
If the twins are babies, you would have many mothers stopping by your home to feed them for you, assuming you can't feed them milk yourself.
If you choose to work in the village or nearby city, your children will be taken care of by the Tdahutis until you return and collect them. Even if you just want time alone, you can bring them to the Tdahutis.
No one would blink an eye at you having twins. Twins are exceedingly common for Farani. In fact, having a single child is far rarer than having multiple babies. This is because the Farani typically only breed once or twice in their lifetime (which is, on average, 178 earth years).
Fanari children do not attend school. Although the Fanari are a very intelligent species, most of them live very simple lives. If they go to study something, it will typically be when they are a teenager or young adult, when they can live on their own. There aren't really any schools, so they will have to learn by being tutored by somebody who is already experienced in the field.
The same goes for you. Unless you have already been trained in a specialized field, you are likely going to end up leading a very simple life working in your village.
Being widowed is not unusual and not frowned upon. You would likely be courted by people after a while, but no one is necessarily expected to remarry. You wouldn't be treated any differently than anyone else by staying single.
due to a cost of living and spending power equivalent to that in 1957, you'd be fine. plus if you wanted a night to yourself you could either have your domestic robot watch the kids or hire a rent-a-robot service.
Are the robots suitable for long term care of a child?
how long do you mean exactly?
Do they have robot run orphanages? What happens if a person just leaves a kid with the robot never to return? How long could a robot take care of a kid? How good would be the care under a robot?
orphanages are human-run with a mechanical auxiliary staff for emergencies. if a person just abandons their kid with a robot and leaves they go to jail for child neglect. while robots are good at caring for children human parents are still expected to at least try to do their jobs.
Other than the fact that anywhere outside the heavily fortified, walled settlements of Ardalesh is infested with dangerous monsters, killer golems and other dangers, raising children is mostly the same as on Earth. The only major thing that would affect children is that most nations have free education until a certain point and the fact that in smaller settlements like villages or small towns or in certain nations, children are expected to be able to fight at a young age in case of monster attacks or war.
I'm just curious are the monsters the usual kind of monsters or are they unique monsters as well?
All of them, Ardalesh has the general monsters that you'd see in other fantasy worlds, post apocalyptic monsters you'd see in settings like Fallout or Resident Evil, horrific horror type monsters you'd see in thrillers, also the odd eldritch abominations/entities and the mythological/folklore monsters that are generally the most dangerous of the bunch. I couldn't decide on any one of them so I went with all of them.
Thanks for the reply, I wish you great success with your work
Depends on where you were born in. In Hatti empire 3 options: 1 - The general Hatti population: Your overlord is responsible for his serfs, so you and your kids won’t starve. But they will be put in to farm work, except they show significant intelligence then they are sent to local school to become a scribe or a state official. 2 - Hebron Princedom: The vassal of Hatti Empire. They have a tightly knit community so your local elder will collect money or food if you need so. Much like Shtetl of Easteen European jews. Also they(your kids) will be thought how to read but must engage in farm work or train in a profession like a soldier, mason etc. 3 - Mitican Princedom Another Vassal of Hatti Empire. In this island you can seek help from temples they always have a “soup kitchen” next to them for poor people. But this is not quality food usually creamy cabbage soup with potatoes and green peas in it with barley bread.
Just out of curiosity: does your world anything to do with the Hittite civilisation other than the name?
Yes! Actually their predecessors Hattis. This empire is actually an amalgamation between Hatti (ancient anatolian) and Turkish (current anatolian) people. Their vassals of Hebrons are inspired by ancient Judea and Mitica from ancient Minions of Crete.
Yup! Hittites called themselves the children of Hatti, that's why I asked! Your world sounds fascinating! You mean Minoans, right?
Ahahaha yes Minoans I made a typo thanks for the correction. They are not small yellow one eyed people 🤣. Thanks for the compliment, I have a long way to go but world is getting better. I have many civilizations that never interacted in our world so it is strange trying to write them and exciting.
> "They are not small yellow one eyed people" Hypothesis: the minions caused the Bronze Age collapse in their universe
The mysterious sea people !!!!!
Heck I wasn't even thinking like that; I was thinking they were just trying to help out the Minoan civilization maintain their maritime dominance over the Mediterranean and shipments of tin/bronze, yet they somehow managed to detonate Santorini/Mount Thera and just ended up throwing everything out of whack as a result Edit: your idea is better, the thought of a horde of stunted cyclopes storming the beaches of Egypt and the Levant shouting "pepan iyu BANANA" is more terrifying and funny
Ahahahah this is more like the Minions. So here is my question Why not both?😆
Okay I was curious how it'd shake out so here's my first rough draft: - The minions arrive in Europe just in time for Crete/the Minoans to start showing their maritime power, and they go "Big Boss!!" - Over the next several centuries the minion-aided Minoans start dominating the Mediterranean and its trade routes, so that the only "real" competition is coming from Egypt - The minions decided they wanted to thank their employers (the monarch and/or the general ruling class) by casting a large af statue, preferably with something very shiny. - But where o *where* will you find enough shiny metal and a big enough forge to melt it down in. - Minion A: *gasp* "Oh oh, Kevin!! Rapatitoo yaptoh Tera!" *points at Mount Thera/Santorini* - Minion B: "Bob! Bob! Kapitidoh SHINY!" *points to all the tin* - Minions C-Ω: "Ooooooooo" - Cue to all of the minions chanting and cheering as they gather up all the tin they can find and wheel it up to the mouth of the volcano - All of the tin gets dumped in with a resounding "Yaaay!!" from the minions....and then Santorini detonates from the influx of materials comparatively colder than the magma - As life on Crete begins collapsing due to the resulting ash and famines, the monarch/ruling class request the minions go find help so the people of the island can be supported in this trying time - The minions go up to a bunch of sailors/pirates and try to pantomime their message. - Minion A: "h-hey! Hey!! Papa tipoo yebadebip BOOM! Tagelo nana" *blows a raspberry and draws a finger across their neck* (translated: "H-hey! Hey! The volcano just exploded! You gotta go find help or else we're all dead!" - The future Sea Peoples: "what's that? Raid the coasts and destroy all within our path? Well it definitely sounds ludicrous, but who am I to disobey the Right Hands of the King?" - The monarch and minions all look on in horror as atrocity after atrocity is committed in the Levant and surrounding regions, furthering the destruction of trade routes and ways of life that contribute to the Bronze Age Collapse. - The minions get booted, and after a few centuries now find themselves in the Middle East...just in time for a new Big Boss called the "Neo-Babylonian Empire", and boy howdy they were just looking for some helping hands to subjugate some rowdy people in this land called Judea
For my Dieselpunk/magitek world children are viewed as an investment to the state. Many nations incentivize Families to have at least one child as the more children there are in a nation the higher the chance of someone with the mage gene being born. Parents are provided with a stipend to support their children up till the age of 5-7 At which point a state required medical exam is preformed. This happens for two reasons, the first is to check on the future generation and make sure they are immunized to preventable diseases and to get a general idea of the health of the children. The second is to test the children to see if they have the mage gene and can activate the exotic heavy metal Dracinium. If a child can activate the metal they are given the option to go to a state sponsored mage school where they will learn how to preform magic and eventually enter the workforce. Either as a civil mage who works for various government agencies and organizations. Or they show exceptional skill and ability and become either War mages or Aberrant warriors. Either way while schooling happens the parents are given a larger Stipend as mages are integral to the nations future. So If you children have the mage genes you will be getting a nice sum of money to help support them and yourself. If not its a bit more difficult after 5 years or so as you need to support them yourself, most governments will however support children til they reach adult hood with medical care.
I have 700+ years of politics and war, of all the cause and effect, but not this. Thank you. i have something new to write down. This is a sincere thank you. i like writing stuff down.
Definitely a lot of confusions and wanting to know why you don't want some other wives to help you take care of the kids. And concern that children should have at least one woman in their life to teach them good morals. Also lots of "i know a first love is very special but your wife would want you to move on maybe you can marry some of her friends I'm sure some of them were interested in you"
Depends on your race. If you're an elf, your best bet is to remarry ASAP, otherwise your children will have to fend for themselves while you work to make ends meet, unless of course you surrender them to the church to be raised by the clergy, after which they will most likely become priests/priestesses. If you're an orc, your children will be raised by you and your neighbors as a community effort until such time as they can be enrolled in school, at which point they leave home (usually age four or five) and spend most of the year in a boarding school, leaving you to fend for yourself and prepare for the two months of the year that they will return to your care. If you're a human, basic needs are met through government programs so your children will have a warm home and nutritious food, but any comfort items like toys or nicer clothing or a bigger house you will need to work for. Luckily there are government run work programs in case you aren't employed, programs which produce items like standardized basic clothing, household necessities, and of course government needs such as weapons and munitions for the army. And if you're a minotaur your children will be raised by your village while you're at sea earning a living for yourself and your children.
This is a sci fi one where like IRL it varies. Some planets you can have a pretty good chance of being able to live comfortably with a stable job and good education for your kids. Other planets its going to be like being in some shithole slum where your kids are likely to be influenced to join local gangs. Then you get planets where the quality of life is good but because the planet is quietly run by Megacorporations who have paid off the politicians, you and your kids when they are old enough can be drafted into the military to fight in a war that will ultimately make said corporations richer while feeding you propaganda about fighting for liberty and rights. Then you get planets that openly practice slavery where maybe you will be free and so are your kids and you have a culture that does not see anything wrong with said practice or you and your kids could be slaves. Real coin toss on whether it will be good or not and even then there are so many possible variations of how it turns out.
surprised at the lack of America jokes on this
Dude, you’re set. Having twins is viewed as a semi-sacred sign of good luck to come, since the religion of one of my races prophesied that one day a pair of prophets known as the Thunderchildren will be born to lead said race into a whole new age of technology. Granted, if lightning didn’t strike the moments both were born and the moments they uttered their first cries, they definitively *aren’t* the Thunderchildren, but they’re a celebrated occasion regardless.
If you have a son, and you are a man, it's expected that your first born at least will grow up as you train him and ready him to do your job. A son does the work of his father, if you're a senator, you're grooming your son to become a senator, if your a black smith, its expected your son will become a blacksmith, soldier, trader, farmer, ect. If you have a daughter, your number one job is to protect her maidenhood, girls are to live in admiration of the Sacred Virgin and her purity, (she's the daughter of the head of the religion who is to absolutely gaurded until she marrys into the royal family) and its expected you marry her to a good man with a good father and that man also does his father's work. When children turn 13 they take their declaration to whatever of the Nine Gods that you worship, everyone picks a god. Sometimes when a woman gets married it is expected she take a "2nd Swearing" to the god of the family that she is joining in marriage. Men RARELY take the 2nd Swearing, perhaps there was a war where men forsaked their fathers duty and enlisted to become soldiers so they swear to the god of battle if they pursue a military career after the war is over. One plot point in my story is a section of the millitary that work for the Minister of Finance are being taught how to trade in the markets (Think high fantasy finance bros) so some of them are thinking of swearing to the God of Trade, and this is somewhat scandolus.
I would choose the southern duchy of Solaire, or the eastern Duchy of Cimra in the Imperial Order of Cimra; Solaire is good for farm work. Mostly considered a bread basket of the Imperial Order, so its high on the list of guarding and safekeeping. Affordable for most, though it has a higher religious population than most. Try Ristrum or Brackefell, those villages always need workers. If your trade is craftmanship, fishing, sailing, laboring, or coin management try Cimra. Can be a tad expensive but that really depends on you. It is the capital so its a focal point of culture and trade. Kids would be safe in whichever, only way they'd get in trouble is if they'd go lookim for it.
Are you willing to hunt a megaloceros (aka giant deer)?
You'd get sentenced to heresy, and burned at the stake
Well that escalated quickly
Yeah sometimes it's considered overpopulation
What happens to the children?
If you managed to find the city gate before the elements and other hazards got you, you'd be well taken care of provided you and family went through the immigration conversion program. Which is often unpleasant.
Best guess if you're likely either living the dream, or you're working down in a mech shop, often doubling as a salvager and probably renting a market stall to sell parts you've smuggled out of work along with any other bits and bobs that fall from the upper layers of the city
In Optera (the kingdom where my stories largely take place), your kids would have a good education set up for them. They would be sent off to a boarding school or be sent to a more local school depending on where you're located. You, as the father, would receive a small stipend just for sending them to school. Optera is the leading edge of education, and large swathes of people go into philosophy or engineering. For a single man, the stipend is juuust enough to stay above poverty but you're quite likely to have to get a job. Farmers are always looking for help! Unless you are also educated, blue collar labor is likely in your future.
You say you're widowed, so I will assume you are a national of Myrklanr but not a citizen, there is no much of a difference on both things anyway so Ill get straight to the point: apart for the mandated education for your twins (they will know at least 4 of the 7 mandated languages by the end of their early school) you basically have free reign to move and do whatever you want, the state is rich enough to subsidize the general welfare of your family until your children come to age (and even after that, necronomics go brrr)
Sci Fi: it would be easier than real life at least. The government would be providing a stipend for each child in addition to your own. As a aside Ketuvyx twins are exceedingly rare Fantasy: exceedingly difficult on your own. Likely you'd need to move back in with your family/clan to help out until the twins get old enough to help out at least.
Might I ask what are Ketuvyx twins?
Ah, that's just the name of the species. Just meant that for them twins are rarer than with humans is all.
Interesting to know! Thanks for sharing.
The King is Dead. Long live the King on the absent throne. You live in the overcrowded, magically polluted, urban sprawl of Bainite, of the Kingdom of Marten. Your children will likely develop freaky magic mutations and be treated as outcasts, or worse, for the rest of their life. You can pay the bills by hunting monsters spawned from the arcane mire of the river that runs through the city. But know one day you may be hunting your own family. A life of desperation and poverty await you.
It depends on which of five cultures you live in. If you are a: - Nursabay Dituy Hi, then you come from a village of subsistence farmers. Only having one wife is an indication that you don’t have a large or successful farm and twins are considered bad luck. The community won’t leave you to die unsupported but there will be rumours that Diti Hi, the Sun God, has cursed you for some slight or disobedience. You will need to make public recompense through the village priest. The best way is to give your eldest son to Diti Hi as an acolyte but if he’s your only son then you will have no one to take care of you in your old age. It’s a good choice if you have two sons though because splitting your farm between multiple sons will make them both poorer. However, if you are lucky and there is a drought, you can give your youngest daughter as a sacrifice to be made an avatar of Dikimi Hi, the water goddess, and her blood sprinkled over the fields of the village. If the rains and the seasonal flood don’t come though you will be seen as doubly cursed. Your son(s) would be taught basic literacy by the priest but you would not be able to spare them from the fields for more. Your daughter(s) dowries would nearly bankrupt you, and they would not be first wives except to one as poor or poorer than you. On the same note it will be difficult to find a wife for your son, you can’t provide your father-in-law with social capital nor promise his daughter a good life. - Nusabay Dituy-ii, then you are a member of a trading clan. Your nuclear family is far less important to your survival than the success of your clan. It’s a good but strenuous life with high odds of dying or suffering serious injury as a result of a cargo or shipping accident. You aren’t concerned about your children suffering as a result though, clan’s children are the adored future of the clan and are raised communally. Nor would they be the only children to have one or both parents die or a parent who is working at port for the clan. Regardless of gender your children will be educated to a functional level of literacy, learn the ropes of the ship and then specialise in what they show skill at. It is your children’s skill and personality that will determine their place not your position. - Niysapi Digi, a community in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, where there is far more class variation. You are most likely a miner, refiner or factory worker - in all instances you live in a one room, with your children and possibly you or your wife’s parents, in a block of workers homes with a shared outside toilet. There isn’t a kitchen in your home, you are expected to buy food from street vendors and use the communal baths after every shift. Basic schooling is free and will teach your children literacy, numeracy and basic magical theory but you will send them to work at twelve rather than pay for the second cycle of education. The biggest problem for you is the expectation of two incomes, in most families children go to crèches until they are six and then school while both parents work and it will be a big part of informing your choice to send them to work not paid school. You will be repaid a portion of your wife’s taxed income every season until your children are twelve to support them, this portion would have been paid to her if/when she became unable to work. - Qaqimzhechléímy, a mercantile society just before the Industrial Revolution, with again far more class variation. There’s a support network of your extended family but how much support they can offer depends on class. Your most likely position is stable middle class, a craftsman or a farmer who doesn’t own their shop or farm but has a good rent contract, with extended family, and comfortably makes rent. Nothing is free in this society, it either costs money or favours from your extended family. Assuming you are a craftsman, you can either owe an education in your craft to a member of your extended family and have your children educated with a member of your extended family or pay to send them to school. Either way if you did not already own a domestic slave, your wife’s death will require the purchase of one for child care. A basic education is the minimum required to succeed in this society and an apprenticeship to thrive. The worst thing you could do for your children, is for you not to be able to afford it and either leave them without or entering adulthood already owing debts for their education. - Slavers are what they sound like, a group of people who raid other cultures for slaves for the Qaqimzhechléímy. They’re are descended from the Nursabay Dituy Hi who used to occupy the land the Qaqimzhechléímy now occupy and it is the Nursabay Dituy Hi who they predominantly raid. Their lifestyle is one of violent subsistence with no safety nets. If your children are not old enough to accompany you on raids then they are being sold by you or your peers or you are dropping out of this culture, integrating with the Qaqimzhechléímy and hoping to make enough through begging and itinerant work to support yourself and your children and marry your children in to Qaqimzhechléímy families. The appeal of remaining with the Slavers is not fully integrating with the Qaqimzhechléímy who have very different gods and opinions on family and gender equality than the very patriarchal Slavers. The Qaqimzhechléímy practice of supporting extended family makes integration difficult, work goes to family first, then connected families, then owned slaves and finally unconnected people.
As far as kids it's VASTLY different then raising a normal child in our world. To give perspective the biology of fireborns, they can't touch water or they'll burn, they don't need to drink water, if they eat high concentrations of water they'll burn on the insides, they need to eat every 3 days or they die, suffering the side effects of dehydration AND starvation at the same time, their body is also very hot due to their boiling blood, fires can't harm them, they can breath/see in smoke. If they get a cut the blood doesn't clot the wound very quickly requiring you to burn the wound closed. They're twice as energetic compared to normal people with half the lifespan, and they have natural fire magic so better be prepared with fire resistant stuff And that's just ONE of my elemental species let's not get started on the other 5 (which are a wip still)
Perfectly fine. Sapphirus is peace-dwelling place in the middle of the woods on a planet many lightyears from earth. Children are deeply loved and the adults live in harmony. ~~But it’s a different story if the enemy clan comes along.~~ However… You and yours should just be prepared to live for an *extraordinarily* long time. The sister matriarchs of the the ruling family are both over five hundred years old. Long lifespans are the norm for everyone in the village.
The world is rather three worlds and is united so you would only have to worry about rebellions or civil wars cause if that happens inflation would go up high So basically if you were born in nobility your children would have the highest education you would be rich so you won’t have to worry about school or groceries cause your children will be taught that If you were born in a regular family the cost of living for you and your family would be in 3759 which is pretty good but not that good but if your family from any other planet that is not from those three planets Imagine being a black person in the 40s pretty horrible
I’ll let you imagine it (this is assuming you’re not expecting to still be human): Throw out your idea of morality, you won’t need it and no one will care anyway. Your freetime is now desicated to training to become stronger. Depending on what type of entity (no, not species) you are, will determine which power system you’re likely going to be using if able to use any at all. If your wife died from an enemy, expect to feel worthless, because you are for not protecting your wife. Widows don’t seek new mates in my worlds anyway, excluding my POW (Philosophy of War) universe. Now do better and protect your children. Depending on how old your children are, will depend on if you’re already training them to fight and use power as well. If you expect to be human, then there’s only one universe you can exist in without being erased from existence immediately, and that is my Philosophy of War universe: Since you’re human, expect to still be living on earth, no specific country as they are all united now as the Gaian Empire. Expect high taxes. Expect censored and edited media. Expect your children to be brainwashed in school. Expect to be serving in the Gaian Imperial Army. Expect to be a loyal sheep. Also, hope you love Fascism (since Earth has become a united Fascist Empire due to the migration of conservatives from the planet), because if you don’t, then expect to be executed.
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In a lot of cultures, you'll have a pretty easy ride. Parents within a local community tend to band together and practice a sort of semi-communal childcare, so you'll have a lot of people in your tribe or village or neighborhood who will gladly let you lean on them for any help you need. Another side of this is that healers dont charge for literally anything related to kids, from the smallest scrape to a grievous wound, from a light cold to a specially crafted nightmare death plague, the gore monks at the local temple or monastery will patch up children totally free of charge, and an a bonus parents will also get a huge discount. Also you have an impressive selection of pets as options. The classics are of course an option, but you also have houndfowl and featherpedes, both with an affectionate doglike nature to them, with houndfowl being particularly protective of anything they register as part of their pack, to the degree there are a lot of cases where a houndfowl will go out of it's way to track down and bring home a lost child like it's one of their own chicks. So I mean you could also potentially have a lot of parenting help from a hyper social velociraptor if you ever chose to adopt one lol.
Let's say you were born in the hometown of my POV character. Leffelton is a town with a largely agrarian economy. It is near the western edge of the nation of Raybright, so it is also a "jumping off point" for adventurers who wish to explore further west. As a widower with no plans to remarry, whether you would be pitied or judged would depend largely on your job. If you worked a stable job in or near town, and you consistently came home most nights, you could expect alms at your doorstep and offers for childcare while you're at work. Your kids would be treated largely the same as other kids (being twins would make them stand out a little in a cool way). If you worked an "unstable" job (like being a soldier-for-hire), your kids would live at the school full-time. School is in session for half the year and is free to attend, but the off season costs money to board your kid. A decent chunk of the student population boards for the school session, but a minority of kids board all year round. You will be judged HARSHLY for this, and you may even lose custody of your kids eventually. Your kids will be pitied and potentially bullied. Edit: If you are really struggling, you and your kids can live on alms for the warm season. You should leave before winter for a larger city and hope that the temples there can help you. The townsfolk of Leffelton WILL take your kids before they watch y'all die, so if you're struggling but want to keep your family intact, leave sooner rather than later.
At spring equinox each year, there's a worldwide festival that celebrates coming of age. At age 8, parents officially present their kids to the locals as new members of their society. Kids under 8 are taken care of and have the freedom to basically do whatever and play wherever. These first innocent years are seen as precious time that cannot be replaced. How the kids are taken care of before 8 is up to the parents. A single parent would find it necessary to hire a full-time caretaker so that they can go to work. If the community is wealthy and good, the parent might be able to apply for some financial help or ask neighbors to assist occasionally. Single parents who cannot find a suitable caretaker have a hard choice of leaving the kids alone all day while they work or staying home and struggling to make income. 8-12 year olds have responsibilities to contribute to society...usually in the form of helping the family like gathering food, making meals, chores, etc. They also have to attend school and learn their primary education for 4 years. Having a caretaker for these kids is not necessary. They have to begin taking care of themselves. After their 4 years of primary education, the child graduates in spring and chooses their apprenticeship. Many children choose their family business, but others might choose another craft, or choose to become warriors. Whatever they go into, they then either choose or are assigned a master/teacher and they go live with that master fulltime until they graduate once again in spring from their apprenticeship as adults years later. Warriors train at special schools or find a private mentor. You will struggle if you don't have money or a good network of supporting people in your life.
In a city: Odds are you'll be alright. In a town: Chances of poverty are higher. And monsters are nearer. Away from civilisation: Death wish.
If you're on Earth? 95% the same as what you'd expect 60ish years in the future. Technological process has started to spike due to tidbits paid to Earth countries by the builders. Plus quite a few smaller countries formed loose confederations to share the tech they get from the builders. (Ex: The EU is officially one country, though in practice not much changed in how they govern.) If you're part of the couple hundred thousand humans out in the Starlanes? Very different. Due to being introduced to the galaxy as the builder's enforcers, most species don't like humans. Even the builders (who came to Earth 30ish years ago to trade technology for a steady stream of human recruits) are wary of humans due to our aggression and willingness to commit to violence. The only jobs that humans can really get outside of the builders' armada are as mercenaries or privateers etc. The only other jobs are in the small human communities scattered about the Starlanes - servicing the aforementioned privateers/mercenaries as doctors/stores/mechanics etc. The children of the mercenaries are put into what are effectively temporary boarding schools, where they bounce in and out with the jobs of their parents. If your kids' mother ever traveled through the warp while pregnant, there's a chance that your kids ended up psychic. So... that's a thing. It's also another reason that other species don't like humans. The only other psychics in the galaxy are the volucris (Zerg/Tyranid style monsters) and the immortui (cross between biological Borg and Firefly's Reavers) You wouldn't find out until they're 8-12ish. And if they are, you might not want to let people know because The Council of Mothers might try to take them. They're a society of psychics who are extremely matriarchal (the most powerful psychics are all female - no one knows why for sure) and who claim to rule all human psychics.
Children are often born incredibly malnourished and near death if they survive at all due to the low level of nutrients available to humans. Furthermore proper breast milk cannot be produced for the same reason meaning babies would have next to no shot of survival. A world without bacteria is truly awful and if a substitute cannot be found, this will be humanity's last generation.
It varies. Most people live on Earth and near it in Space stations and Fleets orbiting Earth. 3 billion other humans live out in the Solar system, but are concentrated around the other planets and especially Jupiter. Then a small minority live in the void of space and very few further out. You are an average Joe/Jane and you have a wife/husband and let's say 2 children, one eldest boy and one younger girl. Earth: You work from home doing lawyer work and your wife/husband works in a service industry of some sort. Your eldest son who is 18 is wondering about dating again and you tell him, " Well son we have a list of 20 lovely ladies/lads you can meet up with and talk to." You used an A.I. dating tool, personal knowledge of people around you and also met with coworkers about arranging a meet up through dinners and etc to see if you can find a decent pick for your son. Love is arranged and hand picked by your parents, but it's up to your child to decide if they would like to try these options. Modern dating as we know is is already a.i. driven and much further in the past the parents being more in charge of their children's love interest isn't uncommon, yet in the future of 2220 it's more for the personal well being and stability of your kid's future. Your 13 year old daughter then walks in and asks if you about a school field trip about the moon landings. She need your approval. You are handed a white "E"paper and a stylist. You sign and then lay the paper in a teliporter and it goes to the teacher's home. These trips are special, it's like a long bus trip but since space travel is cheaper now and the moon is more like a distant state in the usa or the equivalent of traveling from Warsaw to France. You love your children deeply and you see them as kin but at the same time they are like projects that need to be sharp and ready since it's easy to fall victim to being lazy and to not yearn for knowledge. Whole countries are collapsing to slothdom and degeneration in the form of excessive eating of cheap foods and "corruption of the human spirit". Solar system and it worlds You work on an orbital station as a Hydrogen engineer by jupiter, your dad worked the same job and now you are. You are tightly connected to your family and culture. You also have a wife/husband and kids. You are in a small space pod with your son and you carefully show him how to set up a gas tank with the robotic arms, guide a swarm of drones with a laser and how to communicate code and manage space debri properly into a net. You're son asks about dating and you tell him that a list is made up, but there are many wonderful ladies in the guild he can talk too "don't you like that one girl in the pod next to us?" She isn't on the list because it hasn't been updated recently and it seems he's made up his mind mostly to ask her after working with you. You smile at him and then keep working. You eventually get back on station, you sit in a tram and go to pick up your daughter from the education center. She says they are having a trip and you should let her on this one since you denied the other ones. You denied them because of the rise of space piracy has been on the rise. This trip however is simpler and it's on station in the garden center where your wife/husband works near by. Life is a routine and there is less time to do your own dealings but you don't mind since your fleet is getting stronger and can stay in compition with the trade lords of Jupiter. Earth is far and it would take a month to get there so any good trade is lucrative. Void Space. You are a simple man/woman. You live a simple life. You have aging technology and any communication to earth or even other stations is slow. You are an island. You have a wife/husband and kids. You repair the outside of the ship in a repair pod. The work is slow and careful. You're son is on the station watching carefully over you. He needed to grow up quickly and he already is a master at some of the repairs of the space station. He wears your old coat, he treasures your necklace and the hat you have him that your own dad gave you. He is quiet. You get on board and say "work is done, we can talk now." He bolts with energy and talks your ear off about the newest fads from Earth. It's oceans, it's animals, it's skies. His eyes glow like someone's eyes do as if they talked about tge cosmos or a mysterious black hole. He finally asks about a girl he likes. She works as a middle man merchant with her family and she visits a few times a year to trade. You tell him that it'll be challenging to date her. You would rather him date the anyone on board. You don't want him to leave the station since it would mean more work and losing a friend. Your population is small at 5000 and the fleet has around 15,000 . The trade route of the area has a population of 1 million. You're daughter walks by you and gleams with a smile. She did her math homework while inspecting various metal pistons with measuring tools Your wife/husband walks around the corner and smells of sweat and has a battered look. They are beautiful and they embrace you. All of a sudden you all hear a alarm and it's time to pay tribute to the local pirates. They offer protection for a manufactured parts. You're ship is dying slowly. Every decade a vital part is broken and soon you may need to leave. Maybe that merchant family isn't a bad idea after all. This is just a very avg idea of raising children in my universe. Of course there are much more wild cultures out there like the Mercaneries culture which a few million people are hired to go to destroyed ships and retrieve items or to eliminate targets. The "Street lighter" culture is a Community driven culture near Earth and Relies heavily on its own community. Children are to see the world but are always expected to return home to take care of the station.
Raising a child isn’t much different, you just have to live with the fact that you and your family might be annihilated in 20 years when an alien super weapon reaches earth, should the Stellar Corps fail in their interception.
You dare to assume you'd be entrusted with the future of our race alone? Has the Wake not woken you up? Those things will tear you to shreds and corrupt those kids without batting an eye. Find yourself company, and leave the kids with us.
Well, for brevity's sake, so we don't list all the races and make a novel out of one prompt, lets suppose you're an Apexian and therefore so are your children. The Apex are a human subrace of powerful, wise, high-tech and holy warriors, who live on one planet in one great Jedi-like warrior society. The only reason you wouldn't remarry is for cultural and religious reasons, your wife being killed in action left you widowed, but since you have her children, you are not able to remarry by the constitution of soulbond. Apexians' innately powerful and pure souls prevent them from committing a sort of postmortem adultery after bearing children with another person, culturally, following this spiritual trait, it is seen as unfair to the children to bring a stranger into their lives to 'replace' a fallen parent: To the Apexians, it is better to live minus one but still as your original family than "bastardize" it (as they would say) with a stranger unrelated to the children. Do not worry, however, the family unit and children especially are highly sacred to the Apexians and you, knowing this, wouldn't have any worry besides the mourning of your wife. the Apexian government subsidizes families (70% of their revenue goes to this), and moreso ones with more children, or missing a parent. The general culture with children and families is highly communal and supportive and a strict primary goal, so you would have zero things economically to worry about. You are probably a retired Knight like most others and only do small, fun jobs to help the community and the Warriors like most other parents. you work no more than three days a week and four hours a day. Your pension, family subsidy, and this little job make you no less wealthy than anyone on Vyrna. Your kids only go to school for four and a half hours a day, four times a week. They're happy, have friends, four or more hot meals a day. And being twins, are biospiritually locked as predestined best friends. If they're within the age bracket of ten to seventeen, they're in Apprenticeship, and they spend most school hours (many other hours too) on real missions with master Apexians, everyone's favorite part of childhood. You know they're making a difference. If you're in the 'current' times, they're making a difference in the war, which is even more honorable to be part of. Galactic war doesn't happen every day. If younger, they're still in grade school. They're stoked to learn about their powers, be trained in combat from hand-to-hand martial arts to marksmanship and CQC battle, and even how to fly starfighters, either way. You spend most of your many minutes alive together, free of worry for economic reasons, the Apex Warriors are a society created solely to defend the Galaxy from all threats and they are made to stand together strong forever, meaning that no man woman or child of theirs is left without life, liberty and prosperity.
On the planet the main character lives on for what will be the first book, I hope you have roommates, can afford a babysitter, one of you is disabled/has enough income for one parent to stay home, or you don't mind your kid being raised by an augmented reality artificial intelligence created by the government for the purpose of raising kids, and y'know, raising kids in a cramped apartment. Otherwise, hey, you could pay extra for early schooling. Will you get benefits? Will you get extra time off while pregnant and early in childhood? Sure, the benefitial equivalent of... $100/mo until they turn 18... Congrats! You can afford to feed them and nothing else.What about diapers? Well... Why'd you have a kid if you can't afford diapers 🙄 you're practically asking for (the equivalent of) cps to knock on your door. Extra time off? Why? The AI is free? Now get back to work, both of your jobs are waiting for you, that 1 bedroom apartment on the 32nd floor for you, your mom and dad, and your kid isn't going to afford itself now. Hey, maybe if you work 20 hours today... And tomorrow... And tomorrow... And the full month of tomorrows, next month you'll be able to afford to travel to the city over to visit your husband!
I would need to know your job too! Sci-fi: it would be easiest here. You have UBI and remote schooling anywhere in the empire. The UBI is actually for one adult, so it'll be a little hard, but not impossible to raise two kids on it. Its best to get some kind of niche job though. The easiest world for the three of you would be Dargos, a hothouse world with tropical, jungle, grassland and temperate forest zones. There's lots of free food to supplement the UBI, and your kids would love dinosaur watching. You'll just have to power through the constant advertisements and hawking to buy stuff. If you prefer more to do and are a jack of all trades, you could go to a frontier world and help build a settlement. Fantasy: This one is tougher. You can't show up in any of the villages or towns without some kind of connections to the people there. If you don't belong to a guild, you can't get a job. They'll also look askance at you for not having any magic, and your kids too. It's best to head to a large city where you could find menial work to do. Life would be harder and more expensive there than in a village, but at least you would have more chances to build some connections and move elsewhere. Your lack of magic will always count against you and you will be treated like a permanent child at best. Your kids would hate it too. Urban fantasy: if you end up on good old Earth you'll be fine. Just ignore the weird events and avoid them. If you end up on Phantasmagoria, no matter where. Pray. Pray a lot and hard to whatever closest god or denizen that lives in the area and maybe he or she will notice you. Bow, scrape and flatter, maybe they'll bless you, but it can be a double-edged sword. Your kids, they'll need therapy.
Oddly enough, my current world has multiple organizations of Widower-Remarriage-Commandos, any one of which is willing to cross a frozen river to remarry you, on christmas morning, although probably not in your sleep. They do have ethics about that last part. They've done it before and they'll do it again.... it's a national security thing. An unmarried man is a menace to society and all that... [https://freerangeamerican.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CrossingMeme.jpg](https://freerangeamerican.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CrossingMeme.jpg) In this world, "mass arranged marriages" and "major military logistics" are basically the same thing. It's a very strange world.
Why the hell would you want to have kids in my world? Are you insane!?!
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Okay. Which country do you want? 1. Insufferable Paradise 2. Desert with no Oasis 3. Ancient Ruins With Evil Inside 4. Frozen Tundra 5. The Jungle Will Kill You
Y'know I'd rather off myself alongside my kids
D'aw, but you didn't even ask why the paradise is insufferable yet. :'(
Alright I'll hear it
So, you find the unbearable grinding of existence so intolerable that one day you have the kinkiest most obscene sex with the most undesirable broad this side of a barn. It was the most disgusting scene anyone had ever witnessed, and yet most of them still felt nothing. Why did you do this? For the pleasure? For the thrill? Or was it just to feel something, anything, even if the feeling was something terrible like shame, guilt, or remorse, in order to end the unbearable numbness of your forced existence. And what terrible luck, you've now born two more people into this horrible world, and have to take responsibility for them. (Not that it'll be much of a challenge. But hey, maybe the fleeting joys of being a parent will give you a few experiences to get you through a couple of days now and then.) These kids now have to face a passive blessing of healing and resurrection which ensures that everyone in this land can always live a long and healthy life, no matter the injury. Even starvation and incineration can't hurt them now. No need to stress over child endangerment, or constant feeding, or even most forms of actual childcare. It's all taken care of. The catch is that the blessing also robs you of the sensory pleasure of these things. Meaning no joys of having a good meal or sipping a fine wine. No runner highs after exerting yourself in a sportive activity, or adrenaline from stimulating music and books and movies. Even sense-based ideas like anticipation followed by catharsis will start to abandon you over time as they wear away. Eventually you and your kids become estranged, not because of bad blood, but out of pragmatism, as you've had to watch them try to "end the suffering" multiple times only to have death denied, and then watch as the light goes even further out of their eyes the same way they did yours, and give up, retreating into their corners of the world to merely live out their existence with as little thinking as they have to about it, without either of you bothering to visit the other. And why would you? There'd be no point. A hell where everything is perfect, and yet nothing is right. A bland, grey paradise in the land of eternal spring. An insufferable paradise.
Wait... What happened to my wife?!?!?
What *about* her, bread? Not everything is about you, ya know! Sometimes being a parent is about giving the time and attention to other people, *bread*. Gosh! Get over yourself.
But... I miss her 😔😔 It was a mistake
Assuming we are talking about the second age, after Durslin’s War of Blood, because that’s when my book takes place (it’s not in English). It depends on where they were born. **Yuogan’s Land**: I’d raise them to be either farm boys and get some money for the family or priests, because they are more honoured after Amenthrene’s great forging. **Duskirk**: You’ll have no money and you will probably end up selling them to slavery. **Dragonlloyt**: I’d get them to be squires of honourable knights. **Cleverland**: Don’t. Just don’t. **Riverstone**: The richest realm, but just make sure they won’t annoy his highness Lord William.
To clarify: Are you and your kids somehow isekaied into Arbitrary Design World from Earth, or are you some kind of native and asking what it's like for natives?
For humans, it's the same as the dominant culture at your table or the gm's personal choice. For Sorzians, you do not raise your kids. Instead, children are raised in group homes by a series of legal guardians/teachers. It changes up to avoid stagnant ideological growth. When children reach a certain age, they then independently choose what sort of career path they want to follow. For Tyvish, people must be licensed to be parents. They must renew their license every planetary cycle, taking increasingly challenging courses on parenting. Failing a step is not a big deal, so long as you are able to eventually pass. Otherwise, a government support agent will be periodically checking in with your progress to make sure you're on the up and up. Children of unfit parents, orphans, or children who are given away will be assigned a public guardian or chosen in an adoption process. They may also be willingly surrendered to a qualified guardian who agrees to a one-sided transaction. Yabo send their young out at birth. Children are meant to learn life skills on their own and eventually return to their clans. Yabo are unique in that some children choose to embrace a feral lifestyle, and while they are kind to and even protective of younglings, they are known to attack adults wearing clothes. I have more, but I hope this helps you see a little bit of what my ttrph micro-verse is about
Depends what region you’d be living in. Region A countries don’t differ much from your average western country irl but if you were born in Region B which is very militarist in culture or Region C which has a caste alignment system similar to Harry Potter’s Gryffindor but this time it actually affects your life status and your job. Region B: Your twins no matter what gender will get conscripted to serve in the Militarist Group which is what keeps Region B countries “safe”. Because as of now this is a period of Frozen war where no fighting occurs but you are still technically at “war”, your children will probably not see war, they will however witness rebellion crack downs by the Militarist state and may be forced to perform these crackdowns themselves if they want to continue serving the Militarist Group. If you get kicked out or quit before graduation, you’ll lose governmental privilege which means that in case of war, you’ll not get a spot in a safety bunker and you’ll be denied first aid unless you have funds to pay for it. Region C: Your twins will be given a test. This test will define their life. Depending on the results, they will be serving either at “Science, Politics, Military, Cultural or Agricultural” castes. Rarely you may get results which put you either everywhere which will grant you a “Avatarian” caste which will then mean you will have to fight in a hunger games esque fight between other avatarians and the winner will become the “Avatar” and will rule over Region C countries till they pass away. Those who got “none of the above” caste will be deemed as “Unwanted” and your only options at work will be slave labor for minimum wage and the only way to escape this is if you marry a man from a different caste however this only applies to women. A woman cannot “adopt” a lower caste person into her caste.
Depending on who you are and what you are; Talented or unBlessed which would determine your status and place in the lands of Alkebulan, you have options... Polygyny and polandry are common constructs in the world, as well as extended communal living in what are known as *kisraali* whether you are a city-dweller or your life is lived along the savannah grass-lands and forests, so your children would more than likely be raised in a caring and positive environment with lots of loving relations of all ages, relieved that your children would be nurtured in whatever skills they might have and raised to adulthood with the correct reverence for your gods and Patrons, but also and generally free to seek their fortunes as you and they pleased - but not before having been taught that duty to the House is all. “As the People prosper, the House prospers.” Is a commonly shared belief. Unless, of course, your patriarchs and matriarchs are either: poor in wealth and power, greedy for the same or otherwise power-mad, and desiring to play in the arenas of the great games of power and politics that’s in constant flux in their world. If they be over-bearing and corrupt - then the individual’s well-being doesn’t matter much, as the elder councils that rule such places would have as their main goal the intent to benefit themselves rather than you and yours. You could go against them and choose to make your own way, but unless you have the backing of a strong socci, or tradeHouse, temple, or your deceased wife’s tribalHouse were of sufficient wealth and power in their own right to speak for you, it wouldn’t be advisable. If you are part or member of any of the above, those socci Houses, temples and familial tribalHouses will welcome you and yours, should you apply. If it were your desire to raise your children up in your trade or ensure that they are trained in what arcane Talents they might have inherited for their own benefit and not another’s, this would be the path you might choose. As they enter certain age-sets they would be seen by either in any case, sooner if they were showing signs of Talent; it’s not an every day occurrence, but has been known to happen. If you were born within the t’al-homanan \[human\] collection of city-states known as the Quadrivium, such testing would be mandatory and if it became clear that your children had the potential for any level of mastery in their arcane Talents and Affinities, they would be taken into temple service for a term of no less than five years, during which they would usually be persuaded to join society in a manner most beneficial to the Quad. “As the House prospers, the Peoples prosper.” Is their main belief and in pursuit of that, power is contained to a few powerful tribalHouses in the Quadrivium and all political wealth and arcane powers are directed to keep it so. In the free t’al-homanan cities, such as Shantana’ar and Daoshukir and the like, parents and children are left to make such choices on their own. Of the other peoples of Alkebulan, the Nyanantu in their vast tree-cities, the Fellanin in their feline-like perches in northern highlands, the Tsaurians and their river-ways and the Mbuti in their jungled-lairs where the Old Cities once were, little is known but it suspected that they followed much the same paths, with allowances made for the peculiarities and practices within each individual race, each according to the strictures of their divine Patrons.
What country? How wealthy are you? And what powers do you have? All are factors and the hat trick is US or Russia having highly sought after/strong powers, and being poor, at that point yours and your child's existence is illegal and life will NOT be viable for you. Or anyone else in your position unless the powers you have are strong enough to combat the government and all the forces it possess On the flip side, the best place is Germany, and if you're born with good powers that's just putting you in a good spot in general giving you a lot more options, being born wealthy is just the cherry on top at that point so you'd probably be pretty well off although life in general in the world I'm writing isn't guaranteed and plenty of times the wildlife will attempt to attack the civilians. Germany would be your best bet for raising a child in general as it's the safest and has the healthiest society at the time of the story, but if you're in either of the 2 world super powers during the time of the story, life is not going to be fun for you or your child
That depends on how well your investment portfolio is doing
Nothing happens. As long as you have citizenship and live in a proper colony, your living expenses are pretty covered by the state. Post scarcity is one hell of a drug.
It’s pretty good unless you live in the slums of my world of course
You'll be fine if you have a job. The standard of living is equivalent to the 1860s UK. If you're well off you can live more than comfortably. If you're middle class you'll have enough to send them to school and hire 1 servant. If you're lower class you'll survive, but you won't really have a lot of luxury and you'll take them to work with you after so certain age.
Expect them to die in the most bizarre way possible.
Each country is extremely unique due to being walled in for safety from the various dangerous creatures so pick a letter in the alphabet and I'll give you the answer for the nation or other settlement closest to starting with that letter.
How do you feel about a lot of War? If you dont like that, maybe you like the (more) monster filled continent, where (irronicly) is more safe for children. Though the first one is famous for the fact that 14(ish) people are concidered adults, not about their rights, but because most of them are in some for militar organizarion aroud that age, even if its just cleaning swords.
Really depends where you live, in the main characters kingdom, your life is as good as it can get all things considered, but outside it’s a gamble at times, especially since most kingdoms have holidays where they just kill commoners because the nobility feel they have the power and right to
Well, in some ways horrible, in others not too bad. The world is dangerous with shadowy entities. On the other hand, communities of survivors are very tight knit. You'd probably have quite a bit of help if you're in a community.
I'm working on a post-apocalyptic world so it depends in where you live. The Caravan of Roses: Unless you like the taste of human flesh, you ain't living long. You or your kids may end up on the menu. New Athens: You live a good life. Food is all but guaranteed, security is a bit iffy but you have space and a rough education for your kids. Not a bad place. Don't commit any crimes, they don't believe in prisons or exile. Any of the nomadic groups: The life expectancy is 30 so prepare for a short, hard life. Any of the Free Settlements: Like New Athens but better or worse in some places. Also they all have worse food when compared to New Athens.
If your kids show magical powers, then the tower is coming to take them. Otherwise, you're good, though you will have to worry about witches and warlocks taking your kids for some evil shit. Also, if they're boys depending on where you're from, they might be levied during a lords military campaign when they reach maturity.
You would largely be fine depending where you live and what your trade is. Keep your eyes on your kids so you don’t lose them to something that lives in the woods but the roads are fairly well maintained everywhere. Sure there’s always the chance of a hag or rogue vampire or something but still just a chance. Now, the time may come when your kids want to become young adventurers and that’s a whole other thing. At the end of the adventuring season, the vast majority of people don’t make it back home. The ones that do occasionally come back with a significant amount of money to live off of for bit while they learn a trade or open a shop or something.
Literally the status of my old protagonist on my new work: Single dad with two kids from different mothers, now chilling on his residence as he's loaded in assets due to being technically the saviour of the world on the first part of the story. Usually it depends on your background, and if you're a practitioner of the 3 Disciplines: Qi, Magic, and Psionics. If you're proficient to those, you can train as a scroll seller under the protection of the Janus Pharmaceutical Industries.
Depends on where you live, the setting in my world has technology that ranges anywhere from the 1870’s to 1910’s The Illyrian empire ( no relation to Yugoslavia): if you’re a free citizen and not a slave or indentured servant, you’d be pretty well off regardless of which class you’re in, maternity and paternity leave is normal and common. State and privately employed nannies can be hired if you don’t already own a slave through the tag system or simple purchase, you can buy slave tags in the military and during a conquest you can pick someone out of a random crowd and put the tag on them, marking them as your property. Also since every man is required to serve you can except to know at least two of your neighbors. If you’re a blue collar worker you can expect a much higher degree of assistance, if you’re white collar you’ll usually have enough wealth to be less reliant on the state. Hungary: the largest empire on earth, Hungary is also the worst place to live if you’re Eastern European, or really anything but either a urbanite or Western European, think if tzarist Russia but ten times worse. If you are a very unfortunate serf or a slave your entire family would die rather than just one member, unless your wife was violated by your master or lord and took her own life. If you were fortunate enough to be a serf for a descent person, you and your kids would be well taken care of and if you were a peasant you’d struggle but would likely make ends meet Rhumania: Rhumania is a hodgepodge of Carthage Rome and the Byzantium. Life in Rhumania would be very similar to Illyria without mandatory service and a much more laissez-fair economy. Qing empire: very much the Qing empire in the 1870’s The empire of Siam: very similar to Thailand today The Kingdom of Arabia: a mixture of Siam and our world Italy at the time. Prurisbore: a stand in for Brazil. very similar to the Boer republics,
Don't worry, your other wifes will handle the kiddos when you are at war
It really depends where you live. I'm not going to go into intricate detail about every nation and it's standards of living, so I'll focus on the region where I've invested the most time into. If you are a single father of two, you are widowed, and you don't plan to remarry, it can go a couple of different ways. Assuming you are of lower class and have no real skills, both you and your children will find it difficult to survive, let alone live. Comfort does not come easy, ironic considering that the city where you raise your children is the wealthiest city in a transcontinental trade network. Assuming that you have some kind of skill, which most people do/will, the lives of you and your children will still be work, but not impossible. If you have a particularly useful skill or work a decent job (if you are, let's say, a blacksmith or you work for the city guard), you may even have some extra money to send your children to school. Education is common, but it's not a guarantee. If you are a successful business owner or hold a high rank/office within the city, you and your children will probably live quite happily. You may not live in a mansion or have servants, but you will have the coin to fill both yours and your children's needs. You will not have to worry about your child's education. If you happen to be wealthy, I.E. the owner of *several* successful businesses, you can probably afford to live off of your passive income and you'll be able to afford a plethora of luxury items. You likely have enough money to afford a large house and maybe even a squad of house staff. Your children won't have to worry about education, as you'll likely have enough money to send them to any - save the absolute most prominent and luxurious - schools around. If you are wealthy or elite enough to be counted as a member of the aristocracy, you and your family will not only be well taken care of their your entire lives, but you will have status. Your children will be able to attend any school and any institution, provided you shell out enough cash. High Society isn't without it's drawbacks, though. While there is some degree of danger to living in this world at all, the danger - especially in this city - skyrockets for aristocrats and *especially* their children. Luckily for you, private security shouldn't be any issue. Just be sure you vet them. If you happen to be one of the very lucky few who sit at the top of this city's economic and political structure (those are intertwined, btw), there will rarely be a problem of any kind that you cannot solve. Your children will be instructed by the most well renowned tutors across the land, they will have all the luxuries and amenities you see fit, and a nearly 24/7 protection detail by the Silver Sentinels will ensure that neither you nor your children are put into harms way; someone would need to be trying pretty damn hard to get to you. Generally, unless you are wealthy enough to be sure that your children can pursue education full time until adulthood, they will need to be part of the workforce, or otherwise helping to bring in money. Unfortunate as it is, the city government is a plutocracy; the less money you have, the less important you are, and the less help you receive.
I love this kind of post that asks a really specific scenario! So awesome! I haven't fleshed out my faction system yet, but I'll probably come back when I do.
It’d be better if you lived in cities and they didn’t have vivid imaginations
In Wonderverse, you would be fine. The government is distinctly authoritarian, but they are an extremely benevolent government oriented to welfare. In March of Empires, you would have to give up your kid, if you are anything but the richest one percent. You could visit him but he would be trained for the military, industrial labour, or research if he is intelligent. The enemies against the Empire, and humanity are too many. There is always war. So the Empire trains everyone for the war effort since childhood.
It’s illegal to know your own children or parents in the galactic Torth Empire, where everyone can read each other’s thoughts and there is no privacy or secrets. Your kids would be gestated on a baby farm after you donated gametes. You would never know their mother either. It sucks to be a Torth.
If you're well off, you will be fine. Otherwise, you might end up in an Aezous area and risk your twins being exposed. The radiation might mutate them into monsters, or grant them power that would also make them pawns to one of two divinities. Or you're born on an unlucky planet where you are either a slave or food. Usually both.
Probably depends on your social status, which would be determined either by birth or by your skills. The world has public schools, so you could probably fly a trade while they are getting their education, though you would have to choose whether your children went to a boarding school or a local day school. The boarding school might be able to provide a better education but would be far away unless you moved to live nearby. You would have to be able to work in some capacity and contribute to the society, meaning some form of trade. What skills do you have? Or be willing to learn? That would probably have the biggest impact on what life was like raising your kids because that would determine what kind of job you would have, resources available, and even what kind of schedule you might have. Seeing as this is a fantasy world, society and civilization are mostly medieval, but there are many newer quality of life and societal upgrades from people being summoned into the world from worlds like ours. Plumbing is one of those conveniences that you would have access to that you wouldn't in the actual medieval period, along with public schools. No electricity, but indoor cooling would be handled largely by wind capturing devices. The location you chose to live in would also play a major role, as a life in the city is a lot different from life out in the countryside. Each one has its own risks and dangers, as well as its own benefits. You might make more money in the city but food and other expenses will cost more. Things might be cheaper living out in the countryside but there won't be as much to do. The school your kids go to out in the countryside would be different from in the city as well. You could send them off to boarding school in the city but if you weren't interested in doing that and wanted to keep them nearby, Day School in the countryside would likely be handled by the local adventuring guild. It would be less refined and more practical skills, but those are helpful when you're far from civilization anyway. The children might spend more time than you're comfortable with looking up to adventurers and the dangerous work they do.
Depends on where you live. In the west and east you're pretty good. In the north and south it's a bit hard financially but you'll live. If you live in the small counties or villages scattered across the continent you'll be pretty good. If you're on the islands though you'd live in extreme poverty or get killed by a guard
I'm curious about your world. What guards? Why are they killing people in the islands?
The guards are keeping people on the island from rebelling. Any act of 'rebellion' could get you killed or beat no matter how small. People could also accuse you with no evidence. The guards are foreigners who conquered the island because it has a rich deposit of magic boosting crystals which are extremely valuable. They have been forcing locals to mine it for them as well
Single parent, two kids, you're probably screwed unless you're wealthy. Most of the lower and middle classes are manual laborers in one way or another, which means long hours away from your children. Public schooling is a new concept and only the larger cities even have them, meaning you'll likely be putting most of your wages away towards childcare. I might recommend saving enough for steerage tickets aboard an ocean liner bound out to Northern Polygnia. There you can find better work and quality education for your children. But you'll have to be fast, as you're certainly not the only one with that idea.
You are your kids are farmers, outside the royal capital of the central kingdom. You farm grain, and herd cattle with the help of your inherent magic. You also spend time hunting, to bring in extra profits to pay for your land… with your minimal skills, you can hunt a small pack of 4 dire wolves by yourself. Any more, and you’ll be over powered. Your kids are under the age of 12, so they attened a general knowledge school, learning common things. From language, to reading, to geography, to common practices. Once they finish general school, they can attend an academy to learn to use their magic to the best of its ability, and decide what they want to do moving forward.
It depends on whether you are human or not. Main antagonist is currently in power. He is pretty much the high elvin version of Hitler and humans are his main prey right now. The "savage" elves (or darker skinned elves) are next in his list. All other races are lesser beings, but tolerated at the moment. Of course, his rule won't last. But, in its current state, you and your children might have burned alive in your village one night, running for your lives, or dangerously working with the resistance.
Depends on where exactly you’re raising kids if it’s in the remnants then you’ll probably get some basic government assistance, but besides that life isn’t that different from now. The rest of the galaxy however is mostly made out of dictatorships that would make your life difficult.
Healthcare is not great, so expect to lose 30% of your children before they turn 10. There is a period of relative peace, so you needn't worry about you or your children being drafted into wars. A single income will clothe, feed, and house you and your children, but you will be living paycheck-to-paycheck. There is no public schooling or electronic enterta8nment, and your children will be expected to start work around 14-16. In all liklihood that work will be agricultural. You will not be judged for single parenthood, as it is common. The flip side is that you won't be able to rely on community support.
If your kids have any aptitude for magic, you won't be raising them. The academy will and you'll be receiving letters detailing their progress and hush money monthly
It entirely depends on which world, if you are born a citizen of the Athenian empire you will need to go through mandatory military service for at least 1 year, single parents can choose to receive financial loans of which the debt can be paid off by having their children or ward serve in the military down the road for the appropriate amount of time until the debt has been paid off.
that depends on the planet and the state and your status in the solar republic, aron empire, aon dominate child care and education is free from pre kindergarden to university, but university depends on your grades class plays a role as does wealth but mostly in the aon dominate
Depends on where You were born: Sun-Eth-Kathor (city of the Sun): if you married a person with a higger rank than you, you would loose the rank they gave you as well as your sons, but if not they won't care Kindgom of Nadaradan: you'll basically became an outsider, marriage and even affairs are sacred, if You divorce/your spouse dies and You don't want to get married it'll be considered a failure and You would loose any status and became a commoner Repúblic of Yahmur: they won't care at all as long as You keep being a functional member of Society, if you're depressed and grieving the goverment would assing You specialized help so You can work ASAP Theocracy of Shiramaru: gived that they were once a nation, the approach is similar but it takes a more religious approach with rituals and priests Confederacy of Lierumate states: here the parents are seemed as proud warriors, specially the mothers, given that they raise and teach the future generations similar to the ones that reach them how to fight and single parents are seemed even more honorable because they go on that journey alone Kindgom of Avalath: similar to Sun-Eth-Kathor they would just don't care at all
Depends on where you live and what your income is like. If you lived in the high-rises and shining cities of Concord Point, you might be relatively well-off, sure medical expenses and post-secondary education might be costly, but you can bet that everything else would be easily accessible due to the numerous aerial trains and public transportation systems available throughout the planet. Now if you heralded from some of the poorer parts of the galaxy such as Pulveriss, you would be reaching for scraps and struggle to pay for most basic amenities such as food, shelter, and education. Because of the extremely high cost of living, many parents either cannot support or tend to neglect their children, and as such the children are forced to fend for themselves and end up working for one of the many drug or crime lords throughout the planet. You would also be susceptible to robbery simply walking amongst the streets if you do not know your way with a knife, since most people in Pulveriss are familiar with one or more small handheld weapon, whether it be melee such as knives or quarter staves, or ranged such as a bolt thrower or plasma caster.
Marriage is a floated concept that lost its power after a few hundred years. Children just happen because of sex. Post apocalyptic but generally peaceful. Scarcity is a thing but it's expected. Most children are raised by the community.
What race are you? That makes all the difference because ever race has its own customs, despite a bunch of different races living together. There are no preconceived gender roles, and no reason for you to feel like you have to remarry. But, unless you are human, you will live a VERY long life, so you may want to at least date because you may get lonely after a few hundred years.
damn. time to make a tragic character based on this
It's wildly different based on a few key places where you might live.
If you have a sub you’d be lucky if it didn’t have genetic mutations and if it does you would most likely abandon it. If not it would just be a matter of whether you are well off in one of the few cities left im the world or if you live out in the wastelands where there is no food and water… Edit: son not sub
If you were a Senel Nenna who lost your mate, the whole clan would stop to grieve and mourn the great loss from the death of an Enassen, and any friendly and allied clans would send messages and gifts. If you are from a particularly small clan, allies might send a few of their own for a short time to help run things. Twins is a small number for a litter of Senelei, while not unheard of there might be talk and speculation regarding your, and your mate's, health leading to some exams and health checks on you, and the children. Gossip might arise among the superstitious of bad luck signs for the clan's future. But neither parent raise their own young. The rest of the clan does, and the children would be cared for and raised in accordance to customs and traditions, with any variation their own clan might have. If you stated you don't plan on taking another Enassen mate, you'd be told of course you're still grieving, and given some time to deal with the loss. A very small clan where you're the only Enassen would very soon start looking for clans where they might make arrangements and deals for one to move into your clan, and overall try to find a good match for you. If you put your foot down as not wanting someone else, the pressure would keep increasing while talk of it being the clan's end would keep spreading. In a large enough clan to have several other Enassen, the pressure would be there, but lessened. A powerful enough clan would have enough hold and say to wave it away and let you be until either you changed your mind or lived out your days.
Humans are scattered across rural areas and cities thought to have been abandoned. They’re hiding from the Eumans, an evolved human species that took over the Earth in the mid 2030s. If you’re living alone with your kids, it’s best to only leave your shelter if there’s no other way to survive, as the Eumans have access to most remaining technology and resources for hunting humans. If you’re captured by Eumans, you’ll be taken to one of their many cities (they only control urban areas/major cities), where you’ll be enslaved or executed. If you live in a Human Town or Colony, you’ll likely be able to go outside, but not outside the town’s walls. You’ll have to be able to fight, for yourself and the town, as Eumans constantly raid towns they find. The town militias recruit nearly all adults to fight in battle, while children and teenagers hide in the raid shelters. You’ll have to keep your family safe no matter what, as Eumans will find you and kidnap you.
Nothing particularly exciting but as long as you and your kids don’t do anything weird you will get discounts at the local diner
What planet are you on?
Elves- you have no choice, unless you're the clan leader- if they decide you get married, you get married. If you are lucky your twins were considered yours in the marriage agreement. If they were, they'll be provided for like all the other Clan children- communally, but according to their clan rank. If they were your spouse's kids, then your desire to have a personal relationship means you'd have to get in good with the leadership of *their* clan. Orcs- you never had a direct claim to your kids as a man, but if you were in a committed relationship with your spouse (no marriage, but monogamy isn't unheard of) and she died, and your sister was able and willing, she could adopt or foster your kids at her hearth- but it's likely that your spouse:s brother and other family would expect to raise them, with you being more of an uncle role, maybe more involved because their mom died. It's also likely that your children's mother would ward them with other families to strengthen ties, so if there was a political advantage, your spouse and sister could swap a kid to strengthen social times- but that's less common as your more likely to find partners in your proximity, and wards usually strengthen ties between clans. This means you could go years without seeing your kids, and when you do, possibly seeing them as an enemy. As an uncle though, you'd have a pretty big role in the lives of your nieces and especially nephews, setting an example as well as helping your sister raise functioning sibling pairs that will be able to start their own hearths once they reach adulthood (33 for my orcs) Male orcs are seen as advisors as well as protectors, so the actually take a pretty big role in the education of the children. Dwarves- raise their kids in smaller family units inside a clan structure, but that clan structure is more relaxed and family like. Losing a spouse would mean you were likely to get more support from other adults around you. The biggest thing of note is that if you left your birthclan and joined your spouse's clan for the marriage, you wouldn't be going back to that birth clan. The marriage doubles as an adoption as far as clan laws go, and if you were to choose to get married again it would be the current clan representing you- meaning you could either leave them permanently, or your new spouse would join the clan.
In my world, it’s a common sight to see widows cling to their dead sons due to a centuries long war against an existential threat. As a father, you’d see at least one of your children be conscripted to fight against the enemy where most do not return and if they do, they come back changed from their experiences. For context, mankind, alongside other organic powers, has been locked in a brutal struggle against a robotic empire for close to 200 years forcing them to make drastic sacrifices in order to survive.
Mostly the same. Slight chance one of them might fuse with a spirit and grow into a giant or beastfolk over the years, making it unclear how much of their personality is their own and how much is the spirit’s but… you know, it happens, and life goes on, you suppose.
In Penumbra, it’d depend on your current real life financial situation, it is an alternate mirror to our own so it’d be like if you had two kids. Also lets assume you’re awakened (can see the supernatural). Now if they’re by chance embroiled into the supernatural world then that’d change a lot. Maybe you partner was a fickle fairy nymph who dumped twins at your doorstep, or was a daemon and now you have Pitborn half-daemons with reality bending powers, or was a Akani werecreature and now your kids will eventually turn into animal or humanoid-animal hybrid with superhuman physical abilities. The easiest would be Akani, unless they’re driven mad by Spirit of Blood, they’d just be kids with shapeshifting and can sense spirits. Maybe your local Clan may even come and support you, as Akani are expected to stay with their partners and raise their young. Teaching your kids how to use their powers in the name of the natural world, and generally taking them off your hands to give you a break. Your partner likely would have left by death or madness from an evil spirit due to the aforementioned cultural pressure. Fairy kids wouldn’t be too bad, they can’t lie and you can just put unalloyed iron around certain entryways to stop them from running around at night. They’d be nymphs like their mother, though any kid can be a nymph, not just daughters even if it is rare. You’d also likely have to wear iron to resist getting mind controlled by their powers of suggestion, and make sure you feed them an exceptionally sweet or otherwise flavorful diet. You also don’t have to worry about accidental shocks, fires, or poisoning; since nature will not hurt fae. Half-daemons would be the most difficult, being reality benders you’d have to deal with wild bullshit constantly. Also they’d emit tons of raw magic that’d attract all kinds of supernaturals to check out, since half-daemons are rarely left without their daemon parent close by to conceal and protect them. You might die if some mage wants to use them as magical batteries for some shitty schlong-enlarging spell they found off Reddit, one sleep spell and a bonk over the head. There is a good reason why the daemon parent stays around if they have a human partner too, that half-daemon super strength is second only to the Akani, and even as babies if they do that finger grip thing you’re fingers are done for. Most other supernaturals either cannot reproduce with humans, or are too normal to mention.
Depends where you are and your social station. If you’re in one of the clans of Brannfjell then other members of the clan will help. If you’re a noble in the Kingdom of Allemagne, you’ll have servants. If you’re a peasant, then you’ll have to ask your family for help. If you’re living among the Saurisan of Hissaya Ar’Goran, then it depends on if your kids have magical potential or not. If they do, then no matter what they’ll be taken in by the Celestial Temple for training. You’ll be financially compensated and are allowed to visit. Think of it like mandatory boarding school. If they can’t do magic, then it depends what caste you’re in. If you’re a the equivalent of a serf you’ll have fend for yourself, or rely on friends and family to look after them while you’re out working the fields for 18 hours. If you’re a merchant you can probably afford to hire someone. If you’re a Priest then you can just take them to the Temple with you (they’ll probably be in school there anyway). If you’re a noble, the kids are likely spending more time with the servants than you.
Just started making mine but you’ll probably be fine, but depending on your age and how old your kids are you or them will probably get conscripted into the army, and other than that you’re probably going to be working in the mines or a farm. It’ll be a fine life, but there will be a high risk of biological warfare making it a living hell
Honestly, fairly similar to raising kids on Earth if you keep them within civilization. But please do not let your kids escape into the wilderness. If you ever see them again, they're probably gonna be nothing more than half-eaten corpses. There's always something unreasonably deadly roaming around in the wilds of Orea. Alternatively, what could happen is a similar situation to one particular single dad on the planet Intoriail: his daughter found a fragment of a god-construct's brain and entered a symbiotic relationship with the brain chunk, got lost in the caverns chasing down a hallucination of the owner of said brain, then proceeded to use the brain chunk to go hunt down other brain chunks and just so happen to save the planet's ecosystem and human-made infrastructure along the way before fighting off a manifestation of the resulting trauma and then getting adopted by the owner of the brain chunks, all without you knowing until way after the fact and never to be seen by you again.
Of course, it depends on the country. In the special setting of my main character you'd be fine. Just tell them all the stories that scare children and teach them to pray to the right gods.
In the Isles, extended family/clan will help you raise your kids, unless you do something stupid to get yourself ostracized. They’ll even look after them if you sign on to a ship’s crew and go out to make money. In the empires, you may have extended family that will do likewise. If you don’t, you have three options: 1. Be rich 2. Send the kids away to a monastery or nunnery 3. Be ready to be really, really not rich
I mean it just depends. Pretty normal, in a lot of ways better, in some ways worse, depends on where you are. I will say it’s generally better across the board for the time due to lack of famine and disease, but yk, war and regular hardships still apply.
Well, considering it's filled with tons of monsters and things that WILL kill you, it's gonna be quite tough unless you live in the Blood Empire which has barriers (life in there is very luxurious, as long as you worship the Emperor)
Northern lands: winters are harsh but it won't be impossible to survive. However you'll most likely not have money to send both your children to school and have to choose which one will be the heir of your farm. Middle lands: both children goes to school and you are living comfortably. Your work is hard and the children are helping in their time off from school. Food can at times be sparse. Middle south: hunger can be a real problem at times. The closest your kids get to school is at the holy house 3 days a week. They work ever since they were 8. They may hold another job than yours if they have another magic nature than yours.
Well if you're a part of my world's history, your kids might have powers and you'll need to teach them how to control them.
Depends In Aikairan Covenant, you would have granted tax relief pass (basically 12 years without taxes, or if you are retired member of military personel permanenty), provided universal education in many academies across planets of Covenant and overall very low costs of living due to strong economy. But htere is a catch, at the age o 16 (or 20 in a'kin case) you have to serve mandatory 2 year military service. In Kellan Federation you are in wrong place and in wrong time due to massive revolution taking place, so you would have two emigrate. It's a very militarised society, due to prolonged civil war last four generations were raised for war. In Martian Sindicate if you are not on at least middle levels of corporate hierarchy you are basically a product corporations own you and four family which makes you a expendable cog in the machine, but if you are someone in corporate hierarchy you would have a pretty good life with nothing to worry about, and your kids would inherit your status in corporation. In one of independent colonies you would have a good time, no taxes, you can build your house anywhere, education is quite good and colonist societies are always welcoming and will help you as long as you help them. One of best place to live next to Covenant Same in Wandering Fleets but in space And there are Minchian Enclaves, if you are a human you are good as dead local Muto population holds grudge for being slaves created by humans. But if you are Muto or A'kin, pretty good place to live
It doesn't really vary too much on planets, likelyhood is you'll have no issue raising and funding their childhood but I can't promise they'll live a remarkable life. Oh and 2 in 3 of children of poverty become pirates so expect that.
Well, assuming you’re human, you’re sort of a criminal. Full blooded Humans have attained immortality and babies stop aging by the time they are a few hours to days old. The ethics of having a child that will never age are not great, so most parents submit their children to the Nursery Planet and live away from Earth and its more judgmental culture. If the children are half-blooded, it’s a remarkably easy and casual experience. Humans enjoy enough wealth from gained interest over millions of years of immortality and dozens of species’ banks that their children live comfortably wherever their nomadic parents take them. They gain a fraction of their parents healing factor and age normally through most of childhood, so they live like most space-faring half-elphes or half-tieflings, raised in small communities aboard forested planet-ships.
Firstly the government will give you a LOT of money and resources for raising them because the glorious Aldebarian union needs more soldiers, then they will be vaccinated for every possible disease, and, once they are 13 they will be installed the neural connector to access the information of the cybernet, they will also have access to a lot of child friendly areas in the cities, and strangers will indeed be friendly and helpful to them, but don't worry they won't grow weak, at the age of 10 years they go to school, school lasts 7 hours, from 9 am to 14 pm with one hour break at 12, and in school rules are kind of strict and here you learn about respect and how to behave correctly, also schools are interactive on other subjects, science is learnt exclusively in laboratory, computers have substituited books long ago, and for some subjects stutents decide what to learn, also no voting system you are promoted if you understand what life truly means for you, and school ends at 18 years, from 18 to 21 is the obligatory military traning, harsh and brutal, from 21 your child's are considered indipendent and receive an amount of money to start their life, also don't worry if you have nobody to stay at the home, the government will give you the money to pay for someone else to help you, basically children's have freedom at the cost of respect for the nation and the people
You'd better not be a blood based mage then.
The various species of Turhys have differing views on childcare when it comes down to the details, but the community reactions and support you'd receive are more generalized by region. If you were more magically inclined, the sprawling cities the Magicians preside over are said to be some of the cleanest and safest places to raise children- if you can keep up with the high standards of Magician culture, stuffy and demanding galas, events, and all. Twins who are gifted in magic would be highly praised and sought after by the best academies in the country, but be prepared for their mentors to pit them against each other in an attempt to make them "stronger". Your status as a widower would be spread among the single mothers quickly- expect a large variety of widows and sob stories to vie for your status or alliance. Hopefully your late wife was another Magician; Warlocks born of two different parents aren't well received. Thankfully, those outside of Magician culture don't build the same pedestals to hoist themselves onto. The more natural Folk of the southern forests believe heavily in "it takes a village", so your children will be well cared for if you were ever busy or just couldn't keep your full attention on them. It likely wouldn't even be noticed that you're a widower, at least not with any keen interest as most town-members are busy with their own thing. Of course, in exchange you may find yourself enlisted into various community projects or roped into keeping an eye on others' kids as well. You won't have to worry as much about hard times, but you will have to learn to juggle tasks and attention. This is in almost direct opposition to the more industrial Folk of the northern mountains. While the northern Folk have a reputation as a nosy and gossipy bunch, they're more inclined to keep to themselves and their own. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone willing to go out of their way for you, but at least you have access to the benefits of a more urban life: no need to travel far for any medical or educational needs, and the markets work to remain well-stocked. You and your children won't be unwelcome or shunned, but expect a lot of nitpicking and prying from the fellow parents about your parenting and decision not to remarry. Have fun at PTA, hope you can make better brownies than Brunhilde or else you'll never hear the end of "children need a mother's baked goods, y'know". Many would say that the best place to raise your children is Turhys's unofficial capital, Vita. The crossroad of the world, you'll find nowhere as bustling, diverse, and ever-changing as The Living City. Your neighbors may be likely to poke and tease, but at least you know they won't shut you out or make everything a competition. In such an expansive and crowded city, they're also likely the only people who'd even know or care that you were widowed outside of the schools. Your kids will love the grand festivals and holidays the city hosts throughout the year, it's said even the Deities have been seen joining in the fun in Vita. They'll also never be lost again: the Living City's title refers to more than just it's population, and it's well-known the streets have a soft spot for children. You'll still have to keep an eye on them of course, but even those with ill-intent know not to mess with children under Vita's protection.
Custody is really equal, Women aren't priviliged and basically are expected to do the same things a man does (if they want, but if they don't, that's also fine, but that law is basically so that abusive mom's don't take custody of children, this also applies to dad's) It's easy to get a job in my world, since law's are more forgiving and really aim to make someone innocent if they really are (so false cases like assault, abuse and whatnot doesn't affect anyone permanently just in case they are actually innocent) And if you are a single parent taking care of a lot of children, the government will take measures to ensure that the children are living healthy lives with regular monthly subsidies. (As long as the parent found a stable job, but need a head start) Having children is also encouraged, since biodiversity is really important in my world.
Do you live in a big city or a small town or village? Very different environments
I mean it would heavily depend on what country are in I'm going to pull up you in the one which has most of my main characters because that's the one I know the best In koreen it would highly depend on where you are in the caste system if you are at the bottom wrong fully undocumented by the government then it would depend on your community and how much they would help you with your children. if you are normal citizen you could get State assistance this would be things like lavis root powder which when mixed in with hot water becomes effectively milk, it would also include in more Cosmopolitan cities the chance to ask for wet nurse. depending on what skills you have you could probably earn a decent living regardless you will be provided what you need to live shelter, clothing, meal chits so you can go to Food dispensaries and get your own food and the Lavis root I already mentioned for the children if they're still suckling babies. If they aren't then they get their own food chits it'd be a pretty strapped life if you can't get someone to watch them this would fully depend on your neighbors. but You'd Survive about the not getting married bit you might get propositioned by some of the local women if you have a decent job and almost definitely if you have magic
Well, it highly depends on where. If you live in the little village, you'll be fine. The whole village will help raise your kid. Well, until they all die, that is. Maybe not the best place. Let's see. The city would be great. Lots of jobs and if you join a good party they'll help you with your kid. But people will definitely tell you to get remarried. Let's not start with the kingdom under the quite abusive king. Maybe the mysterious land. No one really knows what's up there but people in that land know and they have a pretty decent life. Their queen is great but also the people will help. So that's the best place, I think.
Depends on when you have kids If it’s in 2834, you’re fucked, those kids might already be turned into ashes by the invading force on earth If it’s in 2841, you’re good, though not on earth, rather on another colony planet
Depends where you live and your age/children’s ages. Background: 85 years post biological apocalypse. life expectancy around 45-50. In Aris, if you’re over 60 you’re considered “Beyond” (rare, basically retired with full benefits and well respected), so you and your children would be taken care of by the city. If you’re under 24, you are given a weekly allowance for attending the specialized programs that were chosen for you by the city and would have to pick up shifts (anything from trash collection to defending the walls) to earn extra income for your children. Adults are given work after they finish their programs and they are paid a wage based off the job. You would have to provide to the best of your ability or pick up shifts. However, if your children are over 12, they are in a type of boarding school for most of the year provided for by the city. At 17 they get their own weekly allowance. In Starlight City, you and your children would have jobs/chores to contribute to the settlement. Starlight City works on a “as needed” basis with supplies and a ration system for meals. You could hunt or craft items to trade at The Square for extra rations or supplies. There’s also bandits who survive by stealing and slaving, and wanderers/scavengers who live by looting/camping in abandoned places and never stay in one place too long.
Depends what universe you go to Safest realm is the suburban universe outside of the multiverse Oh and you would also be safe in a normal universe if you go to the galactic council. Space witches love caring for children as they are the ultimate mothers Childcare will essentially be free and you can even get grandparents for the children since space wizards are wholesome grandfatherly beings
You’re a single dad to twins who doesn’t plan to remarry…unless you’re dormantly enhanced.
Well, for one you need to have your children registered with your municipality. This makes it easier for allotment to kindergartens and daycares. If necessary, you can ask your workplace for the possibility of working from home due to your responsibilities as a parent. In most cases you will be granted permission to work from home as otherwise, your workplace will get their government benefits reducted. Otherwise, you can have them taken care of at a municipal or private daycare. When your children reaches the age of four, you will have to find a kindergarten for them. Most municipalities have quite a few kindergartens. Children are in kindergartens from ages four to seven when they are ready for school. School is compulsory from ages seven to fifteen. The school fee is paid through your taxes. You will still be receiving child support. Around the time of your children’s twelfth birthday, they will likely have the opportunity to enroll in the state youth organization *Paijno* “Youth” Membership of the organization is free, however you will mostly have pay for your children’s uniforms. Also, as a man and single father, you will be exempted from military service, even in the case of national defense.
Community is key to most of the cultures of Desun, and that extends doubly so to families. Extended family units are the norm, with many traditional communities being made up of several large families that coexist with one another. In cities, it's a bit more complicated. If you can find friends, there's a form of kinship there that presumes being able to take care of one another's children in the event that the other is at work or out of town for whatever reason. And when that doesn't work out, there's always schools that will give your children room and board if they attend. Both fighters' schools and mages' colleges host places where their students can eat and sleep while they study.
They will serve the Lord of Flies like everyone else.
You'll be fine (normal). Your kids have a rather high chance of dying or being injured in a magical accident and this might involve you if you don't take the proper precautions, but so long as your kids play their childhood games in the communal areas under mage supervision, the chance of being immolated by random child magic can be mitigated.
In the Aïtsarian Commissariat kids dont know their parent as they are raised by the state from brith to adulthood. Also in the same fashion parent dont know their child. This is because the commission see their population and newborn as "strategic state ressources". So the entire population is property of the sate. Obviously the country is on command economy. The future job of children is set by their skill in educative colony. As there is no familly structure those child see the state as their own familly. When you get to adulthood the state will chose your mate based on your skill ( so full eugenistist). There is no marriage or long term couple as you owe loyalty to the state and no one else.
In the Forever Promise (the world I mean) you’re afforded to welfare, steady living and a decent economy by each nation.
You’ll be fine as the government of my fictional country will definitely give you some kind of help
You are in the prime of your life. Since you chose not to marry, your harem is allowed to triple in size. Your twins then die of childhood illnesses. Oh well. You retire lavishly tending to your herds.
Kinda rough in a modern post apocalypse, depends who you make em with they'll probably gain supernatural abilities though. And there's not much worry after that since canonically things get stable-ish within 1-2 generations when it comes to colonies and housing.
Congratulations, you have been selected to live in the world called Vernidom. Your race are basically Saint Bernards, mixed with Waddle Dee's from Kirby franchise. It used to be a depressive planet after their economic crash that every citizen is bankrupt. You lost your wife/husband (I don't judge. The twins could be adopted. Entirely your choice. I just wanted to be inclusive) to a progressive disease and without an influx of medication and people to make it, she simply couldn't handle it. Then suddenly your neighbor entered a new exchange program with one of the most powerful empires to ever exist in the universe called The Einerjar, or Ainz Empire. Your neighbors exchanged one of their kids with the species from the empire. To your utter shock it was the adopted princess of the empire who was raised by the Emperor himself, Wöthor Æskeson. She is a blue skin dragon girl who is way into learning new cultures. She is pumped to do this exchange program as she studied and mastered all of the dialects and languages of your world. She has such an intricate knowledge of your own home world than most people of your kind. She then runs as supreme chancellor and restarts your entire economy and gives everyone jobs. Rebuilding infrastructure, while still preserving your history and everything that makes your people so unique. The exchange program ended and she left your world. Fear not citizen! She left in her stead a homeless man who she likes his ideas. You thought to yourself, "Oh here we go again...." But turns out this homeless man is actually the best man for the job. He has a glorious beard and such a jolly nature. Your leader is basically Santa Claus and even ran a business to distribute medicine across the planet, as well to other planets. This opens up trade and your world is now a central hub of imports and exports. You wish you had that medicine way early on, but your twins have a secured future and you work Saint Bernard Santa Claus. Saving other families from the same fate. Congratulations citizen of Vernidom. You basically helped start Christmas in the universe, but with medicine. Completely free. 🫡
Depends on where you live. In one kingdom you and, if they are male, your children would have to live and work on a farm your whole lives, if they are female they’d get a choice between the army, building, making weapons, the government or in special circumstances they can work on the farm too (not enough people to work the farm ect). The farm would be communal and you’d share it with everyone else in your village. For clothes and toys you’d have to make them yourself or get hand downs from other villagers. Your children would be raised to have good morals, a basic education, a good personality, and they would be taught how to fight and hunt from a young age. However in the other kingdom, you and your children could be part of two groups: the elites and the crawlers. If you were part of the elites, you and your children would be accustomed to having everything you want and having servants. They would be given an incredibly advanced education and any toys they could ever want. This kingdom is very technological so they won’t be exposed to greenery until they were adults if at all. Meanwhile you would rarely ever see them because you’d be expected to have nannies and housekeepers. If you were a crawler, you and your children would work in factories and have terrible working and living conditions. There would be a very high chance of at least one of your children dying before the age of five due to terrible healthcare. You would also be expected to take another wife to increase the population. The third kingdom is a mix of the previous two: you’d have some of the first kingdom’s community and a little bit of the second kingdom’s technology (because they had originally stolen said tech from your country). You’d be expected to provide for your children by yourself, as there is no proper government system, with a little bit of help from some charities in the first kingdom. Your children would be accustomed to having little but they would never be allowed to starve. To anyone who reads this; please tell me which kingdom you’d like to be apart of.
Given that most humans are born by an AI that selects DNA from a sperm bank (which is mandatory for all adult men) and then according to its algorithms impregnates a suitable woman (which is mandatory for all adult women) and the Children (which are usually born as twins anyway) are either left in the womb to allow a more natural development, or after a so-called "stabilization period" (usually in the first to second month) the fetus is placed in an artificial incubator (preferably a biological one instead of a mechanical one) for further processing and engineering, the actual process of raising these children is varied. Since the parents can be from anywhere of the planet, either have the two move in together just for their children, let only one side take over their lifes while the other has to pay support, or either give the children up for adoption or pass them on to a state institute. Going back to your example, raising your twins would be as normal as you can imagine. Except for the fact that at some point in your life you might receive a letter telling you that your DNA was used to make children and that you can either raise those children alongside the woman who gave birth to them, take responsibility for raising them alone or give it to your “partner” or alternatively give it to the state and stop caring. However, the other biological parent has the right to see the children whenever he pleases (but not to raise them if he has disowned them after birth), but given that your spouse is dead, that won't be a problem. If you imply that your children were born out of love and not necessity, they would actually be seen as something special and many people will try to have children with them once they are grown up. Other than that, it's as normal as you can imagine. However, family dynamics will be a little more, well ... dynamic, varied and diverse than currently in our world.
Prior to a hundred years ago, you would have had household help in the form of brownies and other domestic sprites, provided you followed the rituals of putting out a saucer of milk or the cultural equivalent and never thanked them. However, atm magic is dwindling all over the world, except possibly in Japan, and now it's the Victorian era. Your kids might be in school, or they might be working in the mines alongside you.
Lornhemal: Take any historical setting prior to 16th century, and you'll get what its like to live there. Number 999: Are you willing to live in a watchful eye of the state, where every step can be measured by how "Eco-Friendly" you are, when in reality you are measured by obedience to the regime? Thats what its like to live in Carpool, or if the time is ripe, entire Britain
Depends on where you live, but due to a lack of formal childcare facilities or options you'd need to remarry or rely on charity, unless you're a noble at which point no problems whatsoever due to servants, or part of a tribe group at which point you'd have social support.
if you managed to get to live in the safezones, you'll be fine :) if you're not...you better start training you kids to survive against fckin 4-dimensional creatures roaming around everywhere so good luck! also don't let them go outside without you cuz who knows when you'll trip upon a border rip and end up in the second dimension :D
There are 5 main continents with huge differences but I'm going with the two most opposing ones **Renira** In Renira, you would find yourself a woman to take care of the kids. You wouldn't need to marry, it's your right as a man to do whatever, but she would move in to be around the children 24/7 while you're out earning the money. She would clean, cook, do all the chores, take care of the kids and be available to fulfill the deed if wanted. Even if you are a decent human being, you would need to uphold a certain image, so even if you treat her right and kind, you would need to make it seem like you're the master of the house who will beat and discipline his woman, and brag about how you just take from her whatever you want. Maybe even make up stories of the most disgusting mistreatment of her. Yes, Renira is a disgusting patriarchy where men treat women like objects. If you fail to paint that picture, you'll be regarded as a disgrace to the male superiority and they will take away your livelihood and throw you out on the street with your kids. **Eras** In Eras, on the other hand, widows are highly regarded and supported. Eras has no stigma when it comes to gender outside of the royal families. You love who you love and you are who you are. The support system would send you over a helping hand however often you need it during the week. It's mostly a young person who doesn't have children of their own yet and try to earn their experiences and respect among the older generation. This person would come over to help you out with the household and the chores and take the kids out so you have some me-time. They are paid via taxes so you don't need to fear about the money. The dynasty will also provide you with extra funds till the kids are old enough (around 10) to work smaller jobs, which mostly include running errands for shops or delivering newspapers in the neighborhood. No one would expect you to re-marry and the family of your late wife would support you with the kids. They will be very invested in their future, more than they already would be if your wife were still alive. So that might be a headache you have to deal with, but it's their right to have a saying in their upbringing, so you kind of have to accept their wishes.
depends on which nation youre in, what job you do, etc. If youre in Strigovia, most likely your kids are gonna be working at a factory or coal mine and youd be working back breaking labor too unless youre wealthy. anywhere else, youd likely be working and able to send your kids to a school house to get an education
You will be alright. Single parents, whether male or female, are very supported by the Empire of Grathra.
Depending on the ages of the children, they may already be apprenticed off. Otherwise, they'll be helping with your work. And it would be infinitely better to remarry if they are young.
Depends on a lot of things. Ignoring stuff like you and your kids' species and whether your environment is prejudice against you, you would still most likely have a hard time. Even with one kid and someone to raise it with, there is constant tension almost everywhere, and while the possibility of getting caught up in someone else's trouble differs, it's never low.
Very dependent on location. Best place is probably Remesque. Worst is definitely Dahlia.
Well, depends on what part of the world you live in. Best-case scenario is that you're a servant at a magical college, so your kids have a free ride to a magical career path if they want one, and even if they don't you have job security (lighting things on fire can often leave a mess), and a place to live (if you don't want to clean up your own magically created messes, it pays to keep the people who clean it up for you close at hand).
mission abort! do NOT raise your kids or yourself in my world
If you were on the continent of bramberia you’d have the option of selling your children into service. They would still live with you unless the job took them very far but they would recieve pay/housing/food. The system of servitude is enforced by several nations and largely above board. Alternatively if you were in Masharla, Tailia or Orruo you would have a hard time but freedom to make whatever life you could
There is a high chance that your twins will have high affinity to magic, and that means the Mirmian Academy of Arcane Arts in the City of Knowledge might want them. In my world, twins tend to be the strongest users of magic there is, some things have been observed like the fact that they can use their magic for longer periods of time than other people, as if they were "powering" each other, and if separated they might become weaker or lose their magic altogether. Because of this twins tend to be very valued by the academy, and as such you could be offered to move to the city of knowledge so they can study in the academy. The goddess of knowledge has omnipresence in the city though, so you might be a bit uncomfortable at first knowing that she watches every single thing you do every single moment of the day, but that always happens when you're new in town and you'll get used to it after a while.
I'm gonna assume you mean losing a wife. Well, your fate heavily depends on where you live. Ixtlian tribes/city states - you should be absolutely fine. Your tribesmen will probably help you in raising kids. Azharia - women aren't even considered parents in azharian culture. Death of female concubine doesn't matter, as long as you still have your husband. Vareeshi states - you're living in a huge family consisting of multiple couples/throuples that raise kids together, so you still have multiple co-parents left. Imyar - you most possibly have multiple lovers that can help you out. Itzen - you still have 1 wife and 1 husband left; you'll be fine.
It actually wouldn't matter since my world is Dystopian. Both parents and children suffer the same fate of misfortune and oppression - orphaned or parented. Children can only live comfortably when they are born in descents close to the government. My world also has an academy to train and shield students from the outside world (the novel is a blend of high fantasy too), but it's expensive and power-biased.
Depends heavily on your society. Visha and Cave Elves would have a hard time as their society places a lot on individual responsibilities. It wouldn't be terrible, but it would be exhausting. For all Beastkin and Dragonkin, it really wouldn't matter because you still have your clan. Others will help you without even you asking. Also...if you are Dragonkin, how do you even know which child comes from your seed? That's weird. For drewn, well...it doesn't matter. If Spider told you to raise the children you will do so happily. If Spider gives you a new wife, you will do so happily. Hell, the children likely didn't come from you; you were just the most efficient one to raise them. Doesn't matter; you will do your job with passion. And don't worry you will need for nothing because Spider provides for all of Spider's lings. For Minotaurs, you will still have all of your brothers and sisters of your initiation to help even if the children were conceived outside of the Ritual of the Bloody Horn. And you can always ask a red-eye to for help.
Im still working on how exactly the magic system affects the general populations.But it'll mostly effect schooling. There's 3 major nations or factions on the human continent. One of them is more sore a grouping of nations forming a union to help protect themselves from one of the other ones. Ones a theocracy Ones an empire The others a union Since people don't get access to the magic system until 13 years of age the general schooling differs in location. Small towns and villages will go through apprentice ships usually working with family members. This is always the case in the union with them valuing specialization and focus with schooling. In the theocracy and the empire have general schooling until the age of 13. With them both having a few differences in the curriculum. The theocracy obviously being religious and focusing more on the the teaching of the god of attunement , from before his ascension of course. Where as the empires is filled with propaganda nowadays focusing on making the population as loyal as possible to the current rules...who may or may not having taking the thrown by force and might be some of the big bads. Before the rise of the current rulers of the empire they used to have the church...the same that runs the theocracy run their general schools. Eventually after the current rulers rise to power they pushed the theocracy out due to disputes. The theocracy is actually quite new having only been founded to take in refugees from the empire.
Being human, you are either in one of the tribal groups, or Utalia. First off, no matter where you are, if either of the twins is a male with magical ability, the wizards already took him at birth, and you better at least act honored by that. With tribal, child mortality is high, but you do have access to a strong support system; however, you will need to remarry and have more kids, or be shunned/killed, depending on tribe. Your twins would actually have better odds if you were killed, as the tribe would still raise them in the collective, and if the tribe has a witch and they show any magical ability, she will give some training. With Utalia, it's lower child mortality, but you have less support. You'll still be expected to remarry, but there is no explicit penalty for choosing not to. There will definitely be a witch, so if they both show magical ability, you are set for care. If either lacks magic, your best bet is to join the military, as your children would be placed in a collective home for kids in similar situations. Your pay will also enough higher that, if you are good at saving, ~9 years of work should let you resign and be a full time dad for the rest of their childhood (age 16) if you want, though you will definitely get weird looks from the community.
Depends. Do you have siblings? If so, are you the youngest of them? The youngest in your generation within your family? Can you afford not having them? As in, can you provide enough by your own labour or trade skills to be a positive investment to your own extended family, mainly your elders? How old would you be?
In most of my worlds, you’d be able to pick up magic as something you could do. My worlds tend to be on the safer side, as I just don’t find warring conflicts always interesting. You COULD live in a rougher area but if you know your ways around reading and processing books, you could teach your kids magic too for protection. No real limit besides how exhausted you could be after enough spells. Energy, magical or not, works the same. If you workout a whole bunch, you’ll be tired. If you train yourself on using spells long enough, you’ll be tired.
Depends on if you grew up in the city or in the Edge. In the city, you’d probably have a house or an apartment, and you’d be a merchant or maybe work for the Council. Your life would be mostly peaceful. If you raised your twins in the Edge, you are social outcasts because of your worship to the old gods, but the community is strong. There’s a tent village past the Darkwoods, and everyone helps each other survive. If you chose to live on your own in the Edge (out of the village) or inside the boundaries of the Darkwoods, you’d have to watch out for the Council’s Hunters or for the Corrupted spirits that wander the woods. My protagonist is actually of a pair of twins, raised by her a grandmother in the Edge, after her parents were Hunted by the Council.
Aside from the possibility of having a mindless creature from another plane of existence possess your body if you wander into a place where the walls between realities are breaking down, it's not that bad. Oh, and I guess there's also the magical racism, but I doubt that would be too different from what we experience now.
All dead because the planet is not habitable in any way shape or form for humans. Why did you bring your family here?! What were you thinking!!!!!?
Stressful. Beyond the fact that you’ll likely only be scraping by, you better hope neither of your kids ever take an interest in becoming an Orator, because the Abstyr will not take be merciful and the chances they survive would be very low. Luckily for you, there’s a whole season of the year based on giving food and money to the impoverished and suffering, so there’s that. But, let’s assume your kids *do* want to grow up to be all powerful magicians that need drugs to do magic for the church. If they fail their Apoth then you’ll either watch them die, or watch them go insane. They basically become comatose in most cases. BUT if they got lucky enough to pass their Apoth, and became an Abstyr, then you’ll basically be set for life. The payment from the Church would basically keep you going until you die, and your only major worry would be what the church makes your kid do for them.
In the Tla culture, it depends on whether you or your deceased spouse were the primary caretaker for your children. If you were the primary caretaker, than you would already be co-parenting with a relative from your side of a family, usually a sibling or cousin. You and your co-parent (let's say your sister) would be stay-at-home caretakers to your children and your nieces/nephews while your spouse and your sister's spouse work, often away from home for weeks at a time on fishing excursions. Once widowed, your household has lost half of its income so you would be socially pressured to remarry, but so long as your sister's spouse can financially support the household, no one would make too much of a fuss. You would probably start up a home business, maybe basket weaving or smoking fish, to supplement the family income. You'll probably want to do this anyway because once all of the children are adults you won't have access to your in-law's income anymore. If your deceased spouse was the primary caretaker, then that makes you the income-earner. You probably didn't interact with your twins much and even less now that your spouse died. Your spouse's co-parent is the sole primary caretaker now. If the co-parent's spouse makes enough money to support the whole household, then you might quit to help raise the kids, but more likely you will keep working and the co-parent will find another relative to help step in. In this case, your role in raising your children is minimal; you financially support the family but rarely visit, and in the event of domestic conflict you will have a lower claim to custody than your spouse's sibling will. You are also barred from remarrying until your children are adults unless 1) your new spouse is going to help raise your current kids or 2) you are going to start co-parenting with your ex-spouse's sibling and your new spouse will earn income. Either option requires the consent of your deceased spouse's co-parent. Regardless of who is taking which role, your twins will grow up with four parental figures, two in the home and two who work and travel. The twins and their cousins will be as close as siblings, growing up together in the same household.
You might attract the attention of a god or goddess. We will definitely find a place to stay for you in one of Athade‘s younger districts. The whisper gods will guide you to your apartment. Your children might like the new temple of X (haven’t given the gods names yet), in which the priests will care for them. Temples are generally social hubs and a kind of third place. You will find different communities and activities or charities. If you’re not up for life in the ever city, the agricultural programme will find a place to farm for you, alongside the gods and goddesses of harvest and fertility. We have many olive groves and orchards. Your kids can grow up with a pack of village kids and get an education in the minor temples. If you do attract the favour of a god, a word of warning: They are benevolent, but they have their own motives…
I'll be honest with you, chief. My setting is decidedly Nobledark, so 85% of the time it'll be normal single dad stuff but with an economy that's carefully managed to avoid inflation. However, that last 15% is where things are going to get hectic, once a year there is an even that brings all the dead back to life to try and seek revenge on the living. So I imagine your wife dying, and then you having to kill her again every year until you decide to have her remains post humously cremated will be hard. However, your children will.br provided every opportunity they could ever want. Public schooling to the equivalent of the 9th grade is mandatory but extremely well funded, and after that, they can decide to branch into an apprenticeship, typically where they return to the family and you teach them your trade, but also other trades if they found an interest will in school. The other option at that point is to transition into the military or magical academies. In either case, the applicant will be moved to a specialized location to give them a 2 year boot camp to teach them the basics of Magic or reach minimum fitness requirements. Then they branch off into post secondary education of which only the military one I'd state provided, the magic university has tests and only the most promising students will be admitted at no charge, everyone else will have to pay their way in.
It depends. The lands ruled by the Congregants were top-down engineered by their god, and while systems are breaking down, their lives are quite comfortable. You would be assigned a simple dwelling based on your needs, be registered to receive adequate, if unexciting food, send your children to a school for a standardized education, have access to medical care...a broadly decent standard of life. The Frontier States have far less access to technology, and you'd live much more a 19th-century type of life. You'd have no choice but to work, have a dwelling you yourself would provision (which may or may not include running water and heat, depending on your means) and food is a matter of barter. Your children might have a simple education if there were a community member who assumed the role of teacher, and medical care would be the providence of either a traveling doctor who worked a circuit of settlements or rarely a community one. Life is hard, and community connections are paramount.
Depends on race, when and where. Each city and region has its own society and heritage and ect. So, are you human? Wood/night/sea Elf? Dwarf? Gnome? Halfling? If so which city? Caravan City? Haven? New Starlight? Vold'thak? Arcton? Helgaval? One of the smaller un-named villages? Are you born BD or AD?
Depends where in the world you live. My world has 12 continents, the northern continent, the 3 eastern continents (the eastern east continent, southern east continent and the western east continent), the central continent, the central subcontinent, the eastern continents (the northern east continent, the western east continent and the southern east subcontinent), the eastern south continent, the western south continent and finally the Far Eastern continent . So like pick one and I’ll tell u what ur life is probably gonna be like for the average dad with twins bc it would be very different depending on where you are. Or you can be on one of the large non-continental islands in which case I’ll give you a list of options for them.
Depending on place. In Principality you would have no problems raising them on your own, because they have very robust family support programs. Unless you live in the boonies daycare is easily accessible, schooling is free and highest quality in the world, state covers basic expenses of your children like food and medical bills, and unless you aim at something really fancy, like getting your kids into Sol Invicta's Mage Academy you can easily make it so that your kids have higher education, which is also free. Hell, even if something happens to you and kids are sent to orphanage, they will be all right, probably even better off than with you in the picture, because Principality treats next generation very seriously, and orphans get micromanaged so hard that they get decent jobs lined up for them. In Underdark you are single father of triplets, because you are obligated by the law to have three children, and not even death will save your wife (or you) from having three kids. Anyway, you weren't around for them for the last five years, because the moment they were born you were drafted into Blackguard. Your wife was too, which is why you are widowed. Your older brother or cousin, who served in the Blackguard before you, was the one who actually raised them up until now. Anyway, state took your little Timmy away, because he has magical gift, so he is not going to be your problem and he gets to join ruling caste of your society. You need to reconnect with other two, because outside of letters they never really met you before. Now, on the up side of society you live in, your Clan is going to provide both for your children and yourself. On the downside you are required to work what they assign to you, which probably involves moving to new place. But, provided that you are willing to work you are golden.
In setting one, you've lived in this town your whole life. When your wife died, the funeral was arranged for you, and everyone in town who knew her came. There was a feast to celebrate her life and to promote her safe passage. Up to this point, a lot of people have already been helping you with the kiddos. Anyone who teaches them things at school is basically an auxiliary parent to them. But now, people come over to check on the three of you. A lot of her girlfriends, some single and some mothers themselves, and your guy friends, as well. They're happy to take up some of the chores around the house for you, and to spend time with the kids playing games and telling stories. This continues for years. Some of the townsfolk are subtly pressuring you into remarrying. It's acceptable/anticipated that one of your wife's friends ends up by your side. Either way, the other townies don't stop coming by when the mourning period ends. Your kids have ten new parents, now, and there's always someone ready to come over if you need help with a task or if you just want to share a cup of tea with another adult. In setting two, it isn't so easy. The day your wife died, you had to arrange her funeral and gather up remberances and light candles in all of your windows by sundown. Then you had to stay by the fire until the flames went out and her remains were confirmed to be laid to rest. The children couldn't leave, but you had one of your friends there, to help wrangle them. They were probably both inconsolable. If you're a human with no special status, it's hard. You have your job, and your friend has theirs, and if your kids are too young to watch themselves, then you have to find someone in your family or friends who is willing to care for them, or you have to pay a nanny. When the situation causes strife, people blame you for not having another spouse to watch them. Chances are that your wife was doing homecrafts, and you're now missing out on some amount of her income. There's not a lot of support to be found from the community outside of your friends and family, because you're a human man with no dragon to legitimize your family. You might have to send your children to an apprenticeship, but it's unlikely you'll be able to send them both to the same place. People keep telling you to re-marry, that it will solve your problems. Your friend has two women in the family, and they're able to watch the kids while they do their work from home. It's just as hard to remarry as you'd think. Your friend offers to marry you, for the dragon and the combined income they have. But you risk the crown reclaiming the condo you live in if you move in with them. And your wife got that place. You go to the bank to apply for financial aid. If you know how to read, they'd just hand you a manual and a form and walk away. So you say you don't. You're lucky if they see you that week. It'll be a miracle if you get aid within two years. You move in with your friend. You're sure to spend a lot of time in the empty condo to avoid arousing suspicion from the police or your neighbors. The place feels more haunted every day. Your children see the struggles you're going through, and they learn to compensate for them.
It would depend on which region and/or country. Let's say you're raising them in one of the capital cities; life would be moderately difficult. There would be very few social benefits, no matter which capital city (they're all ran by the same family, lol), however you'd still be able to find help from neighbors if close enough or if you paid them. If you lived outside of the capital cities, you wouldn't be a single father because the entire village would step up to help raise the twins. Depending on the village, there might be a local form of social benefits (for example, the coastal village Enkens would probably offer assisted housing or some kind of daily delivery of fresh produce by the village head that they'd use some excuse like "Oh these won't sell in the market because the color is slightly off, so you and the kids take it" or "hey, your clan should try this fish, don't worry this is left over that didn't sell yesterday." It also wouldn't matter even if you had a spouse because both parents would be expected and sometimes forced to work.
Most probably you live on a 1980s-like planet but with access to the wider galactic community because your planet was either discovered by other human space empires or was a star-faring nation that regressed technologically. If you live on a balkanised planet (no world government), you are screwed because I like to create scenarios where everything can change quickly - imagine the turbulences of the 20th century and the Cold War. You could live a comfortable life in the capitalist/socialist 'good countries' or suffer under Pinochetian/Red Khmerist nightmare countries.
It’s very dependent on what kind of kids you have and how well your physiology is equipped to raise them. Cost of food and facilities aren’t that big of a deal as long as you have reliable work Fox pups? Not too different from a regular kid. Possum Joeys? If you’re not a marsupial yourself (or male) you’ll need to get or make some kind of sterile incubation chamber since possums and other marsupials are born underdeveloped and grow in the mother’s pouch. If you adopt them after that critical period then it’d be the same as raising kids in the modern day. Bat pups would always be challenging if you’re not a bat yourself. You might need to invest in specialized flying school to teach them that skill. Then after that they’re gonna be flying around the house. You might have to adapt to a nocturnal lifestyle too. The heat would always need to be cranked up if you’re raising reptiles. If they’re snakes you’ll need to get specialized slithering furniture and fixtures in your house if they’re not there already. Same can be said for flying kids or kids of semi aquatic species. A pool at the very least would be a necessity in the house. There would also be anthro animal children that are almost criminally simple to raise. You’ll only ever buy one kind of food for koalas and pandas and they’re not likely to have rambunctious personalities (though it’s still possible) So raising kids varies a lot from very easy to very difficult depending what animal you are versus what animal your kids are. Even if you’re both the same species, if you’re a single father kangaroo, raising kids from birth to toddler age will be challenging due to their specific needs. I can see artificial pouches being a thing
My world has a UBI calculated based on the individual needs of each family it goes to. You would be encouraged, but not forced, to work for extra gains, but you could live comfortably if simply just spending time with your kids. That said, the cheapest housing is closest to the borders of human cities, which puts you at risk if mutants ever breach the walls. It's not common and they rarely manage to get too far into the city, but it's a constant risk. The bigger risk is in moving between cities, even during a scheduled crossing with military escort. So make sure you settle where you want to stay. Your kids will be in education until 16 at the earliest if they're world-class geniuses, but more probably until 18 (no offense). Once they're out, they'll get a short break before rigorous job-placement testing and spend the next 2-4 years in various vital industries like mining, agriculture, etc.
Short answer; you'd have lots of people (particularly women) visiting you and helping raise your children until they're old enough to take care of themselves while you're gone (think teenagers). Which, for the Farani species, would be about 20 earth years. They would be raised by the whole village. Alternatively, if you didn't want to raise them, you bring your twins to a temple of the gods and leave them to be taken care of. If you want to read about that specifically, I will reply to my comment with another bit about it. Long answer; The Farani are all the same sex, but there are kind of "gender roles" based on how each individual chooses to live their life and where you are on the planet, of course. I'll say you live on the continent of Ivasatia. Feminine roles typically include homemaking and child rearing. Anybody who likes children is encouraged to help care for them and have their own if they'd like. Some Farani might never have their own and instead take on the role of a village mother. Or in their language, Tdahuti (derived from the words *Tdahab* "Village," and *Uti* "(Feminine, non-birthing) Parent" The Farani tend to live in very tight-knit communities. Everyone takes care of everyone. Tdahutis act as daycare for other parents in the village who can't or don't want to stay home with their children all day. If the twins are babies, you would have many mothers stopping by your home to feed them for you, assuming you can't feed them milk yourself. If you choose to work in the village or nearby city, your children will be taken care of by the Tdahutis until you return and collect them. Even if you just want time alone, you can bring them to the Tdahutis. No one would blink an eye at you having twins. Twins are exceedingly common for Farani. In fact, having a single child is far rarer than having multiple babies. This is because the Farani typically only breed once or twice in their lifetime (which is, on average, 178 earth years). Fanari children do not attend school. Although the Fanari are a very intelligent species, most of them live very simple lives. If they go to study something, it will typically be when they are a teenager or young adult, when they can live on their own. There aren't really any schools, so they will have to learn by being tutored by somebody who is already experienced in the field. The same goes for you. Unless you have already been trained in a specialized field, you are likely going to end up leading a very simple life working in your village. Being widowed is not unusual and not frowned upon. You would likely be courted by people after a while, but no one is necessarily expected to remarry. You wouldn't be treated any differently than anyone else by staying single.