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silver1q2w3e t1_j5th0z1 wrote

Reply to comment by sandwichcrackers in The women in my family give birth differently by EaPAtbp

I'm guessing OP is some form of demi human. Not all creatures love their young. Many even starve or murder some of them. Perhaps the more reptilian side is what's favored here so when they turn out more human it messes with the mother's maternal instincts. Given the human side though as time would move on more human maternal instincts are bound to show assuming the crossbreed.

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sandwichcrackers t1_j5tn3y8 wrote

I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense evolution-wise, though I like your idea. Animals that don't instinctually care for their young have young that can survive independently. Animals that have defenseless young don't tend to abandon them the way OP says is the norm for her species. Sure, a few are bad parents, but that removes those instinctual behaviors from the gene pool, reinforcing instinctual good parenting behaviors. If that wasn't the case, they never would've made it long enough to become civilized.

I suspect this is something supernatural, that their ancestors were normal humans that became possessed by something in order to produce these unnatural behaviors.

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