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The pressure to produce more humans was mostly to fuel the armies that need constant supply of young people to throw into the meat grinder; at least in the past

• MattPalmer1086 2y ago
  You really think people chose to have children and raised them to satisfy military requirements? While it may be sadly true that many young people died like that, that isn't why men and women have children.
  • Dalewyn 2y ago
    If you were of high class like the nobility or mercantile, you had children to continue your powerful bloodline. You also married to sign off on alliances and cooperatives. Entire wars have been waged over familial ties and successors. If you were of low class like the peasantry, you had children to have enough hands to till the fields. If you were of middle class somewhere in-between, you had children for both of the above each to lesser degrees. In the modern era there's simply less and less practical reasons to have children, not to mention the costs of childcare and rearing. On the bright side, at least we have less instances of war being waged because Lord Dickus Bigus wants to pork out on a lady and screw everyone else.
  • portaouflop 2y ago
    Not “the people” but those in power in society created the cultural framework that incentivised people to get a lot of kids