Thread:Goddess Ilias/@comment-23999472-20151020074331/@comment-25930818-20151021011800

How are they forced into putting lots of effort into the offspring they do get? Who makes them look after their kids? This is a rhetorical question because the answer is "No-one at all". r/k selection theory doesn't apply when the races aren't honed by evolution into a particular maximal survival strategy, and are instead magical Frankensteins monsters created by wacky species-splicing and barreling straight towards no-males extinction anyway.

I don't deny that getting pregnant is a great source of joy for monsters. But getting pregnant is not the same thing as "And then after birth, engaging in intensive maternal child-rearing in nuclear family units until maturity".

Spiders don't rear their young. Therefore I would not expect arachnes to, because they are magic-spliced from gibbering-horde-monsters and evolution hasn't had time to replace their r-type gibbering-horde childrearing instincts with new pseudomammalian k-type childrearing instincts.

BUT ANYWAY, to finally answer Pat's question: my instinct would be that miscarriages and stillbirths would be very infrequent (regardless of whether they'd be a big deal when they do occur). Because are literally of supernatural constitution, and the monstergirl womb is pretty much the most resilient, magically-souped-up organ in existence. Demonic energy is a general anti-disease silver bullet, so you're not going to have infection-induced miscarriage.

And even if it happens, monstergirls are (a) flighty, (b) looking for any excuse to have more bareback sex, and (c) probably don't get that attached to their children anyway as theorized above, so I don't think they'd be especially traumatized.