I have a couple weakened villagers but every time I try to get a doctor to heal them, they get together instead (or try to). How do I get my weakened villagers health back up?

To prevent spoiling the game by revealing a secret to new players, to read this you will have to highlight the following block of text with your mouse.[start highlighting here->>]To fix your weakened villagers, make the stew that returns your villager's health bar to 100%. You have the words WEAKENED and SICK confused. For information on the stew, click the link below entitled stew recipes. Doctors can only heal SICK villagers , not weakened villagers.[<<-stop highlighting here] Does that make sense?

Or just take them to the food bin repeatedly... and shift them to something less likely to re-injure them until they get back their health (like farming or medicine)

Yup. That helps. Thanks.

Does that mean that parenting is likely to injure them? I realise that motherhood can be injurious, but is fatherhood also dangerous?

I'll rely on your intimate knowledge in this case, arnie.. lol

I suppose fatherhood can be dangerous if the mother's father gets out the family shotgun!