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• Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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• PlasticLove@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  200 years ago people were having kids t 15-16

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  • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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