Women's Libration March, Washington, D.C. 1970. Library of Congress - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-and-womens-liberation-movement/
Women's Libration March, Washington, D.C. 1970. Library of Congress - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-and-womens-liberation-movement/
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Oh please, that was 1812. It was FAR EASIER for women to have kids back then, as they didn’t have to take them to karate, violin lessons, gymnastics, after-school learning, and save up for their college. Not to mention having to buy their kids the latest I-Phone and Gaming Console. And don’t even get me started with the ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT for all parents to keep up with the Jones’.
All they had to deal with was figuring out where the next meal would come from and how they would fight off the Indians, who they knew were only a mile or so from their settlement and would scalp them and enslave their kids.
Those parents had it FAR EASIER than today’s parents, who are forced to live under constant stress - unbearable stress for today’s parents.
The part they don’t talk about….there is nothing else to do there. Not in 1814. Not now.
Get drunk, make babies. Repeat.
I went to school with a couple of kids that were previously from Billerica. Celeste and Paul, olive skinned. Last name was not Italian at all.
They needed help on the homesteads.
My wife (now just 4 weeks from 84) was the third youngest of 10 children...
Her father came from a 10-children family and her mother came from an 8-children family... Both lived to 99...
Both were wonderful human beings...
Had to spawn a lot of kids to ensure that they had two or three adult children.
Large families back then because some would never live to reach adulthood, and then most of those would not make it to old age.