[thatfrenchguy]

Folks did not have kids during WW1 though: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalité_en_France#/media/Fich... :)

[jon-wood]

Was that out of choice or because all the men were at the front, far from the people they might otherwise have been having kids with?

[red-iron-pine]

don't forget all of the rationing, and disease, and terrifying uncertainty

there is always uncertainty, but not in the 60k people are going to die in a battle tomorrow level of uncertainty.