Parenting Poll!

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The following silliness is the inevitable result of more than a year of intense reading of 18th century memoirs, correspondences and biographies, I'm afraid. Trust me, all these options were actually used in rl.

Poll #24915 18th Century Royal Parenting

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 30

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How to chastize your son/ likely successor?

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tell him how much life sucks for my arch nemesis, his secret role model
15 (50.0%)

spread rumors he's impotent and can't sire kids of his own
7 (23.3%)

humiliate him early and often (it worked so well with you)
3 (10.0%)

execute his bff/likely lover in front of him
4 (13.3%)

keep it simple: torture him to death
1 (3.3%)

Your daughter's/female first degree relation's marriage....

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needs to produce offspring; I'm sending her brother as marriage councillor and sex therapist
12 (40.0%)

is a personal insult to me; I will never forgive her
0 (0.0%)

will happen, once I've blackmailed and threatened her into it
5 (16.7%)

doesn't stop me from attending orgies with her; she's my favourite!
5 (16.7%)

clearly means that her husband and his realm now belong to me
18 (60.0%)

I ensure sibling harmony among my children by....

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making it clear who my favourite is
4 (13.3%)

encouraging all to join me in the mockery of the unfavourite
0 (0.0%)

having more than threehundred of them - some are bound to get along!
19 (63.3%)

separating the ones who are too close by any means I have
3 (10.0%)

locking up their mother for the next few decades, thus ensuring they know the value of obedience!
4 (13.3%)

Hanover, Hohenzollern, Bourbon, Romanov, Habsburg or Wettin - if you had to, which dysfunctional royal family would you belong to?

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