I need to go back and read it too, but I seem to remember that (although Ethan sweet-talks her into the kids) she is rather bemused by the whole idea of having children, not ever having had that be a particular motivation in her life. Which-- it's probably cheating a bit for Bujold to give her twenty zillion children anyway, but at least (as far as I remember) there's no oh, hurray, I was really a repressed wanna-be-mommy this whole time, which gives a nice galactic contrast to planet-bound Barrayans (and, I guess, Athosians).
I never thought of this before, but now it makes me wonder about what kind of family planning discussions Elli and Miles had when they were trying to convince each other to be long-term partners. Because to me the divide between Elli and Miles' attitudes about kids is pretty much just as great as the divide between mercenary Admiral/Vor, yet it doesn't seem to have ever been a point of contention. Maybe they just assumed the other felt the same way about it... eek.
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Date: 2009-01-20 06:02 pm (UTC)I never thought of this before, but now it makes me wonder about what kind of family planning discussions Elli and Miles had when they were trying to convince each other to be long-term partners. Because to me the divide between Elli and Miles' attitudes about kids is pretty much just as great as the divide between mercenary Admiral/Vor, yet it doesn't seem to have ever been a point of contention. Maybe they just assumed the other felt the same way about it... eek.