The babies on the mother's laps is all part of the "use your child as an airbag" policy. You see it's harder to find a new wife than it is to have another kid. After all you can only have 4 wives, you can have countless kids.

literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco