In a village so commonplace, it hardly warranted mention, a family as ordinary as you or me witnessed the birth of a new life.
But, listening to the loud cries, the family felt no emotion stir within them for this new life brought into the world, no joy. They simply felt the child's crying was bothersome.
In the era before, raising a child wasn't much different from raising a cat or a dog; it was common for a family to rear seven or eight children.
For the people of that time, the birth of a child was for adding an extra hand to help with labor, not the continuation of their own lives.
...Family, this kind of social relationship, was the most economical, so, no matter what, people of that era always wanted more children.
There was no emotion involved, just the mechanical process of pregnancy and birth, cycling over and over until it became numb.
