To be fair, I think the Sharing Knife world has population replacement problems, right? So reproduction is actually kind of fundamentally imperative in their society. (Although I could be wrong... I was so uninvolved with this series that I was not really paying attention that much.)

Though on a similar note, what really galled me about this book was how all the hard problems of the world, like racism, can be solved simply by... look over there!! A cute baby!! ...yeah, right.