They also dealt with death from infection, commonplace wife beating, lack of running water, all sorts of other things that people these days don't just bend ove

They also dealt with death from infection, commonplace wife beating, lack of running water, all sorts of other things that people these days don't just bend over and take without protest. You can't just plop people down in a situation that's analogous to something in the past and say "just deal, your ancestors did". Well you can but they'll probable just deal with you.