Mord in Palermo

I hope there won't be children characters in the next FE. I believe continuing this trend could become a major stain on the series. There are several reasons why I think they hurt the games:
1. They replace normal lategame characters. When you're playing on classic mode without resetting, loosing some of your core units could spell doom for your army. Luckily, there's a steady stream of new recruitable units at the appropriate level to fend for themselves, so you can simply recruit them to replace your losses, right? Well, not in Awakening an Fates. At the halfway point of the game, almost no new characters join during the story. The very few that do join are not enough to replace lost units, and the bulk of early game units that weren't used are too underleveled by this point. The only source of viable characters are the children... but if you didn't specially pair your units up, which takes several chapters of work, or if the parents you were planning to ship with someone got killed, the children are unavailable. If you didn't grind supports or just got unlucky, your save file could be worthless because there's no one left to fight.
2. The story justifications for children have serious problems. An approach like in Fates, were the children are born during the war and aged up, is just plain stupid, a time travel plot would just be Awakening 2.0, and a time skip like in Genealogy of the Holy War would punish players who aren't interested in the shipping aspect by giving them inferior characters for the second half of the game.
3. The Fourth-Date-Marriage is just stupid. The characters confess their love and immediately get married? Most of these relationships can't possible work out. It also means there can't be much romantic buildup during the CBA-Supports, since you can't have characters flirt with each other when they're already married to someone else. S-Supports should be less plentiful, and only result in a first confession at most, without the characters being completely in love with each other from the get-go. Only the epilogue confirms that yes, their relationship blossomed into something more than simple infatuation. Removing the fast marriage could also give us Platonic S-Supports, like two people reconciling after having hated each other for years, or an older character deciding to adopt the orphan that befriended him.