So I’d been thinking about it from the angle of, why did he have to marry rather than shipping off genetic material? I suspect the Doylist reason is that either the point was to give him a reason to marry, or the comic writers weren’t comfortable with single mothers like that. But I wanted a Watsonian reason.
Cerea as a planetary culture is rather tech-phobic. So, it would make sense that they don’t do genetic testing. That, combined with the population issues, would make it plausible that they put a large emphasis on tracking family trees and genealogy, to decrease the chance of inbreeding problems - in irl human populations, we’re generally okay with second-cousin marriages on the genetic front, but I imagine on Cerea they want more diversity. So, that means it’s plausible that it’s vitally important culturally to be absolutely certain who your parents are.
What has that to do with marriage? Traditionally, in numerous irl cultures, the husband is assumed to be the father, with the idea being if he doesn’t denounce the wife he’s accepting responsibility. In a society placing great emphasis on tracking paternity without genetic testing, it makes sense (to me at least) that it’s a fairly simple case of, children must be born within wedlock to stamp the identity of the father on them, so to speak. I also imagine that adultery (or at least adultery resulting in pregnancy) is extremely taboo, due to the risk of accidentally mixing close or semi-close bloodlines. There might also be a cultural of arranged or semi-arranged marriages to keep diversity wide.
So, what I imagine went down with Ki-Adi is something like this: I believe one condition of him being sent to the Temple was that he would come back to do his duty re population, and he did spend quite a few years as Watchman in the sector. I think he went back, settled as Watchman, found a few likely brides, married them, had children, and then reached a point where he was finding it increasingly difficult to leave Cerea for his duties elsewhere in the sector and realised he would have to choose between his family and the Jedi. I don’t think the Jedi would have pressured him one way or the other, and would have offered appropriate support if he did decide to leave, but Ki-Adi decided he was a Jedi first and Cerean second. He left his wives and children, probably making sure they had a good level of security, and returned to the Temple, maintaining a somewhat distant communication until…I think there was a major attack on Cerea in the Clone Wars that killed them all.
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