There was a thread here a few days ago that discussed that when all was said and done in Germany after WWII, the Germans lost 20% - 30% of her men. Most of them of fighting/breeding age. (For lack of a better term.) Yet Germany and Japan in just 2 – 3 generations seem to have rebounded from a population perspective. In the 20 odd years after the war, was there a significant increase in single mothers raising children in order to procreate? Is there verifiable documentation of this? How were those single mothers and “bastard” children treated? Did those societies offer services to those fatherless families? Were those single mothers looked down upon?