Waiting it out is not a good option. It is not just your own children, the whole fera team gets wrecked by this. The NPCs deal with it eventually, but by then the damage is considerable.

Not having children is the low effort solution.
You can go for true faith in your start build. Lay on hands is super useful anyway. Levelling true faith via lifestyle takes too long. Just cast intercession on everybody and their dog. Go kill some vamps or demons with the find lair journey.
Aside from that you just have to rush what you need to stop the plague via the decision.
Stress should not be a problem for fera. You can rest in glens (Umbra panel, earth option to the left.)
Aside from that this is the World of Darkness. It´s just not a nice place. I had a playthrough where one of my enemies constantly castrated my heirs via some perk. Fairies can do that via holly strike. Some vamp loved to give my family members lebrosy. That´s where lay on hands comes in.

By the way, stopping the plague is super easy with true faith. Just cast bless, which gives a nice attribute buff on yourself or some pack member with balanced stats. 40 strength is also not that much for a fera with rage 5 in crinos.
Or you could play nice with a mummy and just buy boosters for every attribute that you lack.
Or you could learn alchemy yourself. Pump your kids full of restistance potions while you are at it.
Also, you could bribe some person with good stats until he likes you and joins your crew. Just give him money and a nice rare artifact that you found in the umbra.

Originally posted by random encounter:

By the way, stopping the plague is super easy with true faith. Just cast bless, which gives a nice attribute buff on yourself or some pack member with balanced stats. 40 strength is also not that much for a fera with rage 5 in crinos.
Or you could play nice with a mummy and just buy boosters for every attribute that you lack.
Or you could learn alchemy yourself. Pump your kids full of restistance potions while you are at it.
Also, you could bribe some person with good stats until he likes you and joins your crew. Just give him money and a nice rare artifact that you found in the umbra.

Thanks for the suggestions, though i prefer to play a preset character and overcome challenges the intended way rather than make an op character and steamroll my way through the plague. I just thought that there was a way to overcome the plague that every starter character can work towards, the fact that the plague starts so early and screws over my werewolf play though while the vampires can sit pretty and watch my realm die doesn't sit right with me. At the very least you'd think the plague would occur at a much later date.

Well, lorewise it is not like the flaying plague just happened. Gaias enemies launched a genocidal campaign of biological warfare against the fera. Your people dying while the enemy sits back and laughs is the plan.
So, what are you going to do about it?

Make a deal with god? Admittedly, a god your kind does not believe in.
Embrace sorcery? Not the fastest solution, but very powerful in the long run.
Unite a small group of champions, who need to have average aptitude at everything.
Simply build a character, who is average at everything on their own.
Make one mummy ally, who is good at alchemy.
Go on an epic quest into the umbra to secure a relic from an incarna, who actually is a god to you.

What is the intended way?

The only ways I managed to deal with the flaying plague were the following:
(1) having an absurdly OP character or managing to breed one like so for a Werewolf (prowess above 40 and all stats 10 or higher) and it will be able to CLEAVE the flaying plague.
(2) Managing to survive using either medicine bought, until a legend destroys the plague (like in 1), which in some cases took over 50 years to happen and I lost around 11 children.
(3) Make your character a Witch and learn Alchemy the fastest you can in Sorcery so you can make either ANTIBIOTIC and give to anyone you need, or learn the interaction to heal characters directly as well.
(4) In case you play as Inquisition you can close Capital and just leave it closed until someone destroys the annoying thing.

Personally I think this plague is way too OP.

Okay, so you or your allies need all attributes at 10 or better, except for prowess, which has to be at 40 or better. Canon charakters like Bladudd have most attributes at 10 or better. Then you just get a pack mate who is good at bookkeeping, or diplomacy or whatever you lack. This mate does not even have to be a fera. You can get a mummy, f.e. Stats at 10 or better are rated AVERAGE for advisors.
As a fera you should not have any difficulty to boost your prowess with crinos, rage 5, stat boost from being a fera, items etc. Just get the Talons of Rorg if you really want to escalate. The incarna hand out OP items, with stat boosts in the range of fame level X 3 martial, devotion level x 3 prowess etc. You have been to the umbra, right?
Or just seduce, marry, befriend someone with good stats. Throw a party and make them the honorary guest. Your relationship just needs to be at 50 or better for them to join your crew.