Courtship and Family -- Humans

From SOTS

Humans tend to form family groupings based on a single breeding pair, one male, one female and their offspring from current and past pairings. A Human female can produce several offspring during the course of her breeding career, although gestation and birthing of Human infants can often be fatal without proper medical support.

Even after the losses sustained by the Hiver attack, and more so their own near self-annihilation, Humans are not finding it difficult to reproduce in this period of their history although it is more difficult to achieve "natural" childbirth. Fetal incubation is possible from the zygote stage onward—when rapid rises in population are necessary, a single pair of Humans working as a professional child-rearing team can raise 10 such children at a time, all 10 representing a different combination of frozen sperm and eggs. Naturally, this work is highly paid and requires a great deal of professional skill and emotional depth—but it can be done.