Talk:Air Nomads/@comment-98.15.134.89-20100806121122

I don't think the monks and nuns marry and have families. It's clearly stated in the series that the children are raised independent of their biological parents by the monks or nuns. I think a lot of you are failing to think outside the box. Air Nomads prize detachment and freedom. I don't think they marry or have relationships, or at least very rarely. Once an airbender's training is complete, he or she is free to wander the world. Family is a form of attachment, which goes against their culture. I theorize that Air Nomad men and women meet, and if they feel so moved, they have sex and go on their merry way, free from attachment. When the child is born, it is likely that it either remains with the mother until it is weaned or is placed in a nursery and fed from a bottle (or whatever they use in that world) by monks or nuns. As such, the Air Nomads likely do not have brothers or sisters or parents as we understand them, but rather look upon the whole of their people as their family, as they are all kin in spirit. We know Aang and Katara will have at least one child, but Aang is admittedly atypical of his people, especially now that he doesn't have a culture to conform to.