Did medieval peasants have more children on average than royalty? Or is this a modern phenomenon?
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It’s been a thing for as long as human civilization has been around.
The bulk of it has to do with child death rates, the more kids one has, the more likely at least some of them will survive until adulthood.
It also has to do with needing help with farming, hunting, and just plain survival.
It’s also one of the oddest quirks of humanity I think. When times are bad, when poverty is unbearable, and survivability is in question…. What do humans do, have more kids……
You still see that occurring in lesser developed countries today.
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