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This is something that was mentioned in the miniseries: "They better start having babies." Adama also said half-seriously that it might become an order in the future.

Given the size of the population that is left, will that become an option in the BG universe. How will it affect the status of women or men? So far it seems that gender equality is pretty much the norm in BG. But a gestation period still takes nine month, a dark view is that women will be forced to have the children after children, and be taken off the frontline and the decision making process. Another possibility is that since men isn’t as necessary, since sperm can be collected in tubs, while a womb is difficult to reproduce. That women be taken off the frontline, and is behind the decision making process only.
Either way, I can’t see Starbuck being happy about it. She is the right age, but her personality suggest that she doesn’t want children. All this assumes, in terms of reproduction they are at the same level of technology as us. Otherwise, it is all a moot point.

45,000 is not too bad in order to start a new population. Early N. America was populated with people who had less genetic diversity. I imagine genetic pool is pretty wide b/c the people who survived was due to chance only. So the possibly might never come up.