That seems to imply that women lack the mental/spiritual/emotional fortitude to deal with being a werewolf and thus go crazy and have to be killed. Like if ten men and ten women are infected and four of each gender survive, the narrative's rules postulate that the four men are more likely to survive the, uh, meshing period because women generally don't have the capacity. I could be misunderstanding the rules you've posted but, if I'm correct in my understanding, it's offensive.
The Change takes place first when a werewolf attack almost kills the person. Then the person has to survive that (and the body's adaptation to being a werewolf) and heal enough after to deal with the two-souls-at-war-for-one-body thing. But werewolves are so old, that it became practice back in the days when medicine couldn't help, to not change women at all. They just didn't want to risk losing their mate, because werewolves mourn really hard (decades long) over their loved ones. (There's a werewolf in the books who is still mourning after centuries over the loss of his mate.) It has nothing to do with the mental/spiritual/emotional fortitude. The men just didn't want to change women and risk it.
...werewolf females having children...
Okay. The whole reason werewolf women can't carry a baby to term is because they lose the fetus after the first full moon when it forces the Change. Their changes aren't smooth and easy, they're violent and painful. The trauma forces a miscarriage.
A human woman can't carry a werewolf fetus because they're not human. Much like when a woman of type A blood tries to carry a baby of type B blood, and the body tries to attack the foreign blood source because it's "wrong" and needs to be gotten rid of. Only, unlike with human babies and normal blood types, werewolves don't have blood types, so they can't just get injections. Therefore, the human woman's body miscarries. No more werewolf baby.
Werewolf immortality.
Yes, werewolves in this series are essentially immortal (except for severe trauma (beheading, disembowling), silver, fire, and drowning). However, the longer a werewolf lives, the more at odds the two souls become. It's like the two souls being in one body wears on the harmony they build together in the beginning, and eventually the oldest werewolves go "rogue"/insane and end up needing to be put down. Bran is basically a ticking time bomb, so Samuel and Charles are always nearby watching him.
Some women do willingly give up their fertility (or after a child or two, or a miscarriage or two) to attempt the Change. It's usually up to the pack leader and her mate whether it happens. Again, the toll on the werewolf if she dies has to be taken into account as well, because that can very easily drive the werewolf left behind into a kind of fugue-state of grief, or worse, drive him into that "rogue" insanity. It's all a gamble and some men would rather not risk it.
(There is a mated couple in the book where a werewolf watches his wife age and grow elderly, and it does deal with the heartbreak of them adjusting to the world seeing him as her son and not her husband anymore.)
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The Change takes place first when a werewolf attack almost kills the person. Then the person has to survive that (and the body's adaptation to being a werewolf) and heal enough after to deal with the two-souls-at-war-for-one-body thing. But werewolves are so old, that it became practice back in the days when medicine couldn't help, to not change women at all. They just didn't want to risk losing their mate, because werewolves mourn really hard (decades long) over their loved ones. (There's a werewolf in the books who is still mourning after centuries over the loss of his mate.) It has nothing to do with the mental/spiritual/emotional fortitude. The men just didn't want to change women and risk it.
...werewolf females having children...
Okay. The whole reason werewolf women can't carry a baby to term is because they lose the fetus after the first full moon when it forces the Change. Their changes aren't smooth and easy, they're violent and painful. The trauma forces a miscarriage.
A human woman can't carry a werewolf fetus because they're not human. Much like when a woman of type A blood tries to carry a baby of type B blood, and the body tries to attack the foreign blood source because it's "wrong" and needs to be gotten rid of. Only, unlike with human babies and normal blood types, werewolves don't have blood types, so they can't just get injections. Therefore, the human woman's body miscarries. No more werewolf baby.
Werewolf immortality.
Yes, werewolves in this series are essentially immortal (except for severe trauma (beheading, disembowling), silver, fire, and drowning). However, the longer a werewolf lives, the more at odds the two souls become. It's like the two souls being in one body wears on the harmony they build together in the beginning, and eventually the oldest werewolves go "rogue"/insane and end up needing to be put down. Bran is basically a ticking time bomb, so Samuel and Charles are always nearby watching him.
Some women do willingly give up their fertility (or after a child or two, or a miscarriage or two) to attempt the Change. It's usually up to the pack leader and her mate whether it happens. Again, the toll on the werewolf if she dies has to be taken into account as well, because that can very easily drive the werewolf left behind into a kind of fugue-state of grief, or worse, drive him into that "rogue" insanity. It's all a gamble and some men would rather not risk it.
(There is a mated couple in the book where a werewolf watches his wife age and grow elderly, and it does deal with the heartbreak of them adjusting to the world seeing him as her son and not her husband anymore.)