The biggest benefit I see with children is that it will create moral and immoral disfunction/function in society. Child labour laws, Child Abuse etc. It will also change opinions of people in the public eye in differant areas of the cantr society, who comes into power etc. These are all good things, I think, because as of now the only laws we have are hunting laws, farming laws and stealing laws. I imagine that a lot of people will allow their real life views of children to affect the IC world (which I don't agree with.) But like slavery I think there will be some major misfortune added when children come along. I think that it will also force some people to take a bigger interest in their characters personalities.
It adds option to the types of people who you can play. You can play a broad who gets knocked up several times that leaves a child on someones doorstep, every time.
You can play a good parent, a parent who spoils their children, begin to have royalty, a womens community where they hold men hostage for their ability to make them become mothers, etc etc...I can hardly list all the possibilities, but that isn't even the half of them. The bigger picture outweighs all the negative things you could point out in my opinion. Adding children will create situations of which make this a more realistic simulation of how society works. Children in real life are the future, and so will they be IC if people can manage to avoid disease or what not. lol
On one hand I feel reproduction should be allowed to happen anywhere in the game, because public displays of affection are also a societal view of which should be determined ICLY rather than by the functions of the game IMPO.
On the other hand, making it a chore that must be done inside gives people a good reason to make use of buildings, which hasn't been very successful so far, as far as I can tell.
JMO.
