When a man believes he may die, he wants to leave something of himself behind. Whe a woman believes her man may die, she wants that part of him desperately. The result is a great many babies born during wars. It's illogical, given the hardships that comes if the man does die, or the woman, but the human heart is seldom logical.
— Meilyn, New Spring
The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:
Yet this abundant issue seemed to me
But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit;
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:
Yet this abundant issue seemed to me
But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit;
— William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 97"
