Yes, life was so much better when families needed to have as many children as possible in the hope at least some would run the smallpox, polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, and other childhood maladies gauntlet to adulthood.
Nice sanctity for life ya got there, phoney.
/sarc
Only....that wasn’t the reason.
More like a combination of not having the hormone-ladened/birth control pills .... AND....they needed all the extra hands they could get, to work their life-SUSTAINING farms.
What is it with these VPs and such callousness for life?
The “gauntlet” to adulthood? Spit more kids out to beat death odds? Seriously?
Geez.
Go visit an old grave yard and look at the dates on the headstones.
Of course survivability wasn’t the only reason, but it certainly was one. Old age without living children was once dreaded.
But it seems you’re just fine with someone spouting how amazing it once was that mankind survived at all pre modern medicine.