I think there is a problem with the birth balance. after 4 years in the game I have more childrens than parents. They reproduced faster than rabbits 
Shouldn’t we limit births at the start of the game and encourage the immigration of adults? In my case, I spend my time building houses to house everyone, even though I don’t have many active people. This penalizes the start of the game.
Obviously all producing twins or triplets. 
This accurate for the time peroid. Even though birthrate had a high mortality a 3 + children household was typicla
Sounds like infant mortality is too low then, easy fix.
Pioneer populations have extremely high birth rates.
My 5x Great Grandfather, one of the first pioneer English-speaking settlers in southwestern Missouri, had 35 children grow to maturity (and we don’t now how many died in infancy or shortly after) and buried 4 wives who died in childbirth (the fifth outlived him). This was all before Pasteur’s Germ Theory radically changed the infant mortality rates and changed the ‘traditional’ birth to death ratio.
The few population figures from other ‘frontier groups’ like the first Russians in Siberia or the Greek colonies around the Mediterranean and Black Sea back n the Classical Era show similar very high birth rates in every case where the local biome didn’t kill them off with unfamiliar diseases or climate.
I’m NOT recommending the game change to incorporate this kind of population increase: it would require massive rebalancing of just about everything else in the game!
But it does show that the game does NOT reflect anything resembling the historical Frontier Reality.
I agree that traditionally the birth rate has always been high. but I think in the early years the pioneers had other things on their mind than making children. I rather suggest a temporization of births the first years of the game then, if all goes well, a high ratio of births (conversely a low ratio if the conditions are not good). there could also be high infant mortality if there is poor nutrition or difficult conditions (starvation, too much meat and not enough vegetables or vice versa, no heating, etc.)
the devs (thank you again for all you do 
) have certainly thought about this kind of game mechanics, but I would find it great if births play an influential role certainly, but later
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