That's one thing I learned doing family genealogy; lots of men who lived into their 70s and later, some with two or three wives that they survived, and of their eight kids, maybe six lived to adulthood.
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It could be even fewer than 6/8. You would have many children simply so SOME would survive to childhood. Some unlucky families would lose all their children after having many children. How can ANYONE look at this and want to go back? These people are insane. www.statista.com/statistics/1...
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46% of children didn’t live to their fifth birthday and this is their fantasy of a ‘golden age’! WHAT THE HELL?
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Yeah, I know there was one family unit I saw with about 15 kids, and only about 6 lived to adulthood, and there were three boys who all had been given the same name.
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In fact, I have a great uncle on one side who died at 4 years old to scarlet fever, I think, in about 1913. And a great uncle on the other side who died by electrocution just before his first birthday in 1911. That was 1/4 and 1/6 in their respective families.
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