[dijit]

What I find interesting is that, it really seems that the opposite is true.

My great-grandparents (and their entire ancestry that I can trace, all the way back to 1807) were punishingly, desperately: poor.

Yet, it seems they averaged a heck of a lot more children than me, or my contemporaries. And their children largely lived to be adults with only a few minor exceptions.

The adults themselves didn't seem to live long though, most records of marriages I have are for 17-18 year olds who were already orphans.

[M95D]

> Yet, it seems they averaged a heck of a lot more children than me

Not by choice, I assume.

[dijit]

fuck. fair point.

I totally forgot that the 60s gave us effective contraceptives.

[binary132]

meth and automatic firearms didn’t exist back then, for starters.

[dijit]

knives and opiods did though.

My family were Scottish and Scotland does not have so much automatic firearms tbh.