This could have something to do with me ... and I am sure others too ... In VV1 I complained that if you nominated a male as a "parent" he always chose the oldest female in the village first. This meant that you had a female in her 70s, on her very last legs, literally crawling around with twins!!! She always died very shortly afterwards and I thought it was just a bit much. Why not go for the youngest ones? So in VV2 males can father children right up to old age (as in the real world, lol!) but females get to have a break from all that as they get older. I think this is an improvement