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by triceratops 331 days ago
> People have been having babies in all sorts of adversity for all of history

But they didn't know how screwed they were.

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I think literal chattel slaves knew they were pretty bad off but they still had kids.

(If you implied sarcasm I apologize, it's extremely hard to tell when dealing with HN posters)

I encourage you to do some research about this. I did and I wish I had not.
edit: you know what, I'm not going into this here, I'll leave a link with some actual slave narratives about family and children. https://americainclass.org/family-life-of-the-enslaved/