Originally Posted by
NorthwestUteFan
Brigham Young had a serious load of kids. IIRC he had 56 and that seems like a lot.
However he only had those 56 kids with 16 wives, for an average of 3.5 children per mother. This is at a time when the average (non-polygamous) woman had 5 children.
It is simple biology. A woman is obviously only fertile (statistically speaking) a few days per month. What is less obvious is that while men are technically always fertile, statistically speaking they are far more fecund after several days of buildup. This means they are statistically the most fertile on about 3-5 'arrivals' per month with several days in between.
The likelihood of a single male with only one partner happening to deliver the photon torpedo into the ventilation duct on a fertile day is significantly higher than it would be for a single man to hit the same target range with multiple partners. Lining up the dates for a single partner is a simple matter, just like targeting womp rats with my T-16 back home.