About [[FreeCol:Model.option.ages.name/ru]]

You may also translate "ages" as "epochs", or "centuries"; these are not related to the age of possible recruitment of these fathers, as if these were individual conditions for each of them, as they could equally be (for their epochs) quite young (~14 years old) or already quite old (more than 40 y.o.): remember that the average life expectancy of humans was shorter (except for some favorized families among the nobilities and rulers), and many young people could be emancipated very soon (especially if they were poor and had no properties or titles to inherit, and frequently married and themselves had children before reaching their 20's. Armies and fleets were also recruiting very soon in the campaigns, and many abandonned children were living in the street of cities, without any parent to take care of them, if they were not forcibly enrolled in armies or the churches, or sold by their poor parents.