Children in Andromeda from Each Race?

I think they'll come up with some BS reason why they can't come.

There wouldn't be many (if any) children because it's better to get settled before making offspring. Gestation alone would render (at least humans) part of the population weak or incapacitated for the better part of 9 months (I'm not really sure when the effects of pregnancy start to get severe), and I don't think it would be a good idea to limit the workforce before feet are firmly planted on the ground. Even if we do have some form of artificial gestation, children themselves are just crawling time sinks that turn into walking liabilities. Given that the Andromeda Initiative seems to have no short supply of spry, youthful explorers, it would probably be best to focus their energies towards making homes rather than sweet, procreational love.

On a similar note, I don't think it would be a good idea to send children in cryo-sleep. I think BioWare have said that the Andromeda Initiative wasn't created in response to the Reaper threat (or maybe other information has merely implied as much), so if this is the case, there's no real incentive to "save the children." In that case, why bother? Like I said, they're mainly just liabilities: they can't help with the work yet and they can't make children of their own. All they could do is sit around and waste resources. If you're going to colonize a location, you want entirely self-sufficient individuals who are perfectly capable of serving as part of the work force and creating offspring the second they reach their destination.

On the technical side, kids are just annoying to deal with. You don't see them much in games because getting them right involves making a bunch of extra assets which could only serve as set decoration, and why go through all that trouble when there's usually an easy excuse to just ignore them?

Well I assume there must be children there somewhere. For humans at least, I can't imagine someone actively planning to create a society that in 18 years time won't have any 20-35 year olds in it. On the other hand children in video games is rarely good, so I'm quite happy for theoretical children who I never have to see.

It would surprise me if the 20,000 humans, who came along for the trip, were all around 20-30. There must be some old ones and probably children, too. In the long run the population would grow very irregularly if everyone was roughly the same age in the beginning (first high birthrate, then low until the children have grown up, high again, first generation dies within a short timespan,...). That would result in social and economic problems that could be avoided if you started with a mixed population, but I doubt Bioware bothered too much about such matters.

Or just do what they did in the Trilogy and ignore them completely.

Was Starkid the only child in the whole Trilogy? I really hope not but I can't remember any others.

I wouldn't mind if there were kids, I think it would be a nice bonus and make the world feel a bit more lived in, but I don't think they're absolutely necessary.

I'm so used for games not having kids, it's not even bothering me anymore.

Never underestimate the stupidity of some parents ...and because of that I would expect at least a few rug rats running about, but on the whole I agree there are other things the AI should be focused on.  That said, the moment the first stable colony is in place, babies are gonna start happening.

I think it's more related to the fact that children are still a "taboo" thing in games.
Society says you can't have children on a game that features sex, drugs and rock and lots of shooting and violence. So companies don't want to push their luck. Look at GTA games, when there where ever childs in that game?
Sure, Skyrim had children; but like 2 kids in 3 cities across the entire map, and they were pointless.

And then there's the inevitable fact that they don't fill any purpose in the game more than adding realism/immersion (?), so the devs don't want to bother adding something essentially useless.

Well, there's Fallout 4, which has a number of children. Of course, they are immune to the violence part. I discovered this when I attempted to purge one of the Vaults still inhabited by vault dwellers. 

Yup, as much as I know comparing things to Witcher 3 is frowned upon here, that's what I envisioned.  Mostly just hanging out on the Nexus.  We did have Thane's son which was cool.  Surely there will be teenagers since the Ryder Twins are supposed to be early 20s.  Would be strange to have the youngest people of the Andromeda Initiative now pathfinders.  

And if people were awake on the nexus long enough to have an uprising with raiders and factions across worlds by the time the Ryders wake up, surely someone has to have children by now.  

Mostly I just want a mini Garrus running around the Nexus as an easter egg.

The only kid that showed up in the trilogy ruined everything.
No, thank you!



Seriously though, the game should have kids, yes. The more plausible, the better.