This seems to indicate that in Golarion elves do remain in childhood for decades.Yes. But, this also creates a paradox. How does a "Forlorn" elven child survive their infancy?As I read it, it takes experience to become forlorn, an elf is neither born that way nor switches to forlorn as soon as a human friend dies, so that infancy probably turned her out "forlorn".
Furthermore, forlorn elves are more moody and melancholic then elves raised among their kind, but that is not the same as outright suicidal.
You mis-understand me. If it takes 10 years or more for the elven baby to finish potty training, who would raise them for that period? Who (among the shorter lived races) would take care for them for that long?
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Forlorn Elves are raised among short lived races, not necessarily by them. Even if you are raised by your elven parents, the constant deaths among their and your friends help you to become a Forlorn, just as they are...
If the elven childs Parents die, that is certainly another story and would require a good amount of love from the community - and may make a good backstory for such a character all by itself.
edit: sorry, spelling and grammar skills seem to leave me...I should probably just finishh for today.