Some of them, sure. But the benefit of not dying horribly of polio or smallpox is pretty nice, as is the wildly better odds of surviving childbirth. It's kind

Some of them, sure. But the benefit of not dying horribly of polio or smallpox is pretty nice, as is the wildly better odds of surviving childbirth. It's kind of anecdata, but have you ever noticed how in classical books from a few hundred years ago, it's sort of normal that Mr So & So might be on his third or fourth wife because the others died in childbirth? Just something that caught my attention.