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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: human, just as ladies persuade them that they have no legs.
Children and Game: a Proposal
Of the many wild absurdities of our existing social order perhaps the
most grotesque is the costly and strictly enforced reservation of
large tracts of country as deer forests and breeding grounds for
pheasants whilst there is so little provision of the kind made for
children. I have more than once thought of trying to introduce the
shooting of children as a sport, as the children would then be
preserved very carefully for ten months in the year, thereby reducing
their death rate far more than the fusillades of the sportsmen during
the other two would raise it. At present the killing of a fox except
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