200 years ago people were having kids t 15-16
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago200 years ago people also had kids quite late.
And we live so much longer than even 40 years ago. Life is so much better and safer now.
PlasticLove@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
RBWells@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And at 40 and 45, since there wasn’t birth control.
I was honestly surprised when I looked at a genealogy site, so many of my ancestresses got married at 28-30, I guess reading Little House on the Prairie when I was a kid made me think all those women of old times married young but nope, that did not seem to be the case.
Eq0@literature.cafe 3 weeks ago
But the nuclear family is much younger, so today’s kids rely much more heavily and directly on their parents with respect to kids 200 years ago. The “village” build around multigenerational housing has disappeared, making the age of parents a much bigger factor than earlier on