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To: Valpal1

In most of human history it would be even younger.

Although most of this first children would not survive.

It was in most of history said that the first two children were for the crows.

My grandmother’s first, third and forth pregnancies were stillborn or died in infancy.


14 posted on 09/19/2024 4:16:48 PM PDT by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac; Valpal1

“In 1800, the American birthrate was higher than the birthrate in any European nation. The typical American woman bore an average of 7 children. She had her first child around the age of 23 and proceeded to bear children at two-year intervals until her early 40s.”
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/topic_display.cfm?tcid=134#:~:text=In%201800%2C%20the%20American%20birthrate,intervals%20until%20her%20early%2040s.

More https://www.google.com/search?q=average+age+of+first+pregnancy+in+history&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS1057US1057&oq=average+age+of+first+pregnancy+in+history&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTIwMTI2ajBqMagCCLACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


19 posted on 09/19/2024 5:07:38 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Pontiac

This is an urban myth that presumes previous generations and cultures were stupid and didn’t realize that early marriage and childbirth were associated with maternal and infant death.

Average age of first marriage for women in colonial America was 20-22. In Tudor England it was 24!


22 posted on 09/19/2024 5:15:40 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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