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This did not stop people in the past. You read of three-room New York tenements holding families of ten, or families with half a dozen children living in a sing
by marssaxman 1y ago
This did not stop people in the past. You read of three-room New York tenements holding families of ten, or families with half a dozen children living in a single-room frontier cabin, and this was considered commonplace.
My parents raised eleven children in a typical four-bedroom suburban tract house.
I wonder why modern people would be different?
- ok_dad 1y agoBecause we have an expectation for more space. Pretty simple, no one wants to go backwards to when we lived in single room tenements with a wife pumping out babies for a decade in a row. Also, no one can afford a four bedroom home with twelve occupants on a single income like in the 50s.
- angmarsbane 1y agoThey didn't have birth control then so it was much less of a choice.
- marssaxman 1y agoWell, then we should say that it is something related to availability of birth control which has caused the change, not some novel preference for living space.