Yeah, even the median life expectancy in the past would be getting awful close to something like 2 years old. [1] Again running with the Founding Fathers as an

Yeah, even the median life expectancy in the past would be getting awful close to something like 2 years old. [1] Again running with the Founding Fathers as an interesting example, Sam Adams lived until he was 82 and was one of 12 children. Yet of all those brothers/sisters, only 3 lived past the age of 3. It's this context that I think explains things like infant 'exposure' in various cultures over time that we can't even imagine today - parents simply leaving their child out to the wilds, essentially to die - while retaining that cognitive dissonance that perhaps he might be found and raised by somebody, as was a frequent component in the hero legends, such as with Theseus and Perseus. [1] - https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past