In the villages, the children from childhood knew where the kittens, pigs and calves came from, and at the same time they knew why the nephyg with whom came earlier.
I have a brother and a sister. They were 10 years old (at the time of the events they were 8). They know how they have been born for a long time (not in detail true, but the idea is known). And here on TV some joke about finding children in the cabbage. They don’t understand it and ask to explain. I explain that sometimes children are told that they have been found in cabbage, or that they have been bought in a store, or that they have been brought by a bow.
Why do they say this to children?
I: Well, they may be ashamed to tell the truth.
Brother: Do they not understand that in this way they say to their children that they are not their real dad and mom?