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The 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 famili
by Finnucane 7y ago
The 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.