As rapidly as the second phase illness is spreading through the population, you would wonder how we keep things working, but it does keep working.
Bigger brawnier women aren't too stressed out to use some kind of technology to give birth every month. I thought they were passing the embryos off every month but they were actually taking supplements to speed up the process. This means they don't have to find women to bear the babies to term, just someone looking to adopt without asking too many unanswerable questions, and thats a group of people that never seems to run out.
As long as the babies are going to be treated like babies things are going to be ok, but if people start screwing them while our branch of the family passes on a particularly mild form of HIV in that people have been known to live more than 35 years with it, its still hard to say any form is really mild.
I don't know what the percentage rate is for children raised normally and children who are abused but we see it that those who are abused were drafted into the war, everyone I knew growing up included in that. And as you know soldiers do things that civilians are not supposed to do as the definition of their responsibilities.
The more I think about it I think this is a very fair way to thin out the population. A lot of people can do a lot of things, but have the sense not to do them out of some kind of better thinking and those people need not worry about either illness.
*when children have been sexually abused, the only method we know of to help them overcome a lot of the weird stuff that puts in your mind is to extend their childhood a little and let them go out and explore their feelings and impulses for a time. They are still childlike in that people have to be a bit opportunistic to be threatened by them and plenty of people find it very easy to turn down their advances or not take advantage of the positions they choose to be in until they begin to remember the consequences that came before*