• breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    612·
    2 months ago

    “Haha remember when women didn’t have a choice when their husbands wanted intercourse? And abortion was illegal? And so the woman was forced to birth as many children as her husband wanted?”

    Psychotic.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        And half of them could die before reaching teenager. Which is mainly what accounted for that low average life expectancy. So you needed to have backups.

  • lukstru@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 months ago

    Tbh it’s not only grandma. Grandpa was involved as well, and it was usual that grandpa wanted to but grandma not, and they did it anyways.

  • randint@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I still don’t understand how so many people used to be able to afford having so many children, but not nowadays. Was child-rearing just less expensive back in the days?

    • klemptor@startrek.website
      41·
      2 months ago

      Parents weren’t giving their kids a gilded childhood. Children worked. Having more children meant more help with the farming, housework, etc., and/or they could work in coal mines, as chimney sweeps, etc. And also most kids didn’t go to college back then and got married off young, so the parents had less financial burden. Plus the cost of living was a looooot more reasonable in comparison to the average household’s income.

    • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      2 months ago

      Back then, you could ship children off to mines, chimney sweeps, boot polishing. They can be paying their own way from age 3!

      The “glorious past” that MAGAts want to go back to

      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Also, once the first girl is old enough (like 6) she can take care of the other kids so you don’t really have to do anything except to keep making them.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    2 months ago

    Fifteen or sixteen kids. Completely irresponsible. Pull out, dawg. Shoot it on her belly. Why would you do this to yourself?

  • digdilem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Sex was sex, much like it is now, only with less contraception and more privacy.

    Then advertisers realised they could use it to sell literally everything and now it’s everywhere.

  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 months ago

    I know a guy who “doesn’t understand why vasectomies are so popular all of the sudden. Any child is a gift, especially if you’re fifty.”

    I don’t want to have 15 kids that I can’t afford and would only provide a terrible upbringing dipshit.

    He also does not understand why women don’t always give natural child birth anymore. “Women did it for hundreds of years.”

    Yes. The life expectancy was like 35 back then. This Christian anti science shit is beyond stupid.

  • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
    24·
    2 months ago

    Do you think having more kids is a sign of having more sex?

    You can have sex once a month or once a day and still end up with the same number of kids.