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The year may change, but what is right and wrong does not. And by the marriage act I mean the way babies are ordinarily made.
Why would a powerful, ambitious woman want to have children and let them be raised by others? Children need their mothers. If a woman has no interest in raising children, she oughtn't to have any. There's certainly no reason for her to allow the sort of dreadful measures you've described in order for her to have a child outside of marriage.
Oh. I imagine that must be quite difficult. Can you not judge their temperament beforehand, and refuse to turn those who might lack self-control?