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From genealogy it appears to me that before the dawn of antibiotics and vaccines all parents had at least some children die of childhood diseases. The only exce
by droithomme 7y ago
From genealogy it appears to me that before the dawn of antibiotics and vaccines all parents had at least some children die of childhood diseases. The only exceptions I find are cases such as where the woman has two children then dies herself in childbirth or shortly thereafter from complications, and both children eventually grow up. Having no dead children a century ago and beyond seems to have been a very rare experience.
- Finnucane 7y agoThe converse is also true: when divorce became easier and more common, there was much hand-wringing over one-parent families, but in the past, one-parent families were just as common. The difference was that it was usually one of the parents had died. Around here in the Boston area, every town has a colonial-era cemetery, and they are all have a lot of graves of children.
- lostlogin 7y agoIts interesting to walk in them and read the headstones. The older headstones where I live are for very young children, then there seems to be a gap then it’s young men and women. The males seem to have died in workplace accidents and the women in childbirth.
- Finnucane 7y agoAt the beginning of the 20th century, before antibiotics and safety rules, the top killers were pneumonia, tuberculosis, childbirth, and farm accidents. Yes, work was dangerous.