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Your history knowledge isn't great if his statement seems outrageous to you. Having babies at 16 was far, far more common just 50 years ago in all of the wester
by valval 2y ago
Your history knowledge isn't great if his statement seems outrageous to you. Having babies at 16 was far, far more common just 50 years ago in all of the western world.
The answer to "where" this shift happened is "in the entire 'developed' world", and the answer to "when" is of course not a single point of time, but you can observe the graphs to find the derivatives.
- TheCoelacanth 2y agoThe baby boom era had people getting married and having babies at a younger age than both before and after that time period. It's a mistake to extrapolate the recent trend backwards beyond about the 1940s.