Not me writing a fanfic where I wanted a character to accidentally adopt literally every kid on the planet through a combo of plot convenience and alien culture stuff and having to balance "what would be a realistic population for an isolated but fairly established colony planet" vs "how many kids can I have this guy accidentally adopt before the numbers get comical" 😆😆😆

I wound up going with a population of around 110k on the planet (it's INCREDIBLY isolated, so that felt like a,,, half-decent number) with around 20k adopted kids (this was me looking up stats for usual kid percentages of populations and rounding down because I was specifically going for kids kids and not just under-18).