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What I find interesting is that, it really seems that the opposite is true. My great-grandparents (and their entire ancestry that I can trace, all the way back
by dijit 5mo ago
What I find interesting is that, it really seems that the opposite is true.
My great-grandparents (and their entire ancestry that I can trace, all the way back to 1807) were punishingly, desperately: poor.
Yet, it seems they averaged a heck of a lot more children than me, or my contemporaries. And their children largely lived to be adults with only a few minor exceptions.
The adults themselves didn't seem to live long though, most records of marriages I have are for 17-18 year olds who were already orphans.
- binary132 5mo agometh and automatic firearms didn’t exist back then, for starters.
- dijit 5mo agoknives and opiods did though. My family were Scottish and Scotland does not have so much automatic firearms tbh.
- M95D 5mo ago> Yet, it seems they averaged a heck of a lot more children than me Not by choice, I assume.
- dijit 5mo agofuck. fair point. I totally forgot that the 60s gave us effective contraceptives.