Did medieval peasants have more children on average than royalty? Or is this a modern phenomenon?
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Distribution is likely bimodal and geography dependent. Emperors had concubines and those kids weren’t in line to the throne so the Emperor could go wild with it. European kings couldn’t have a bunch of bastards running around so they didn’t have as many official children. This changed with the end of imperial rule. I think Xi Jinping has 1 daughter an no known mistresses.
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CPS Florida agent here –
The trends that we observe are usually that those on the lower socioeconomic strata don’t have ready access to contraceptives or abortion procedures, but boy do they like to engage in coitus.
Children cost you more than you can make off of them, here. The age of the “welfare queen” ended with Reagan. That is a common misconception. Our poor families with lots of kids are made poorer.
Along with poverty, there are inescapable cofactors such as mental illness and drug use. Not EVERYONE, mind you. I’ve met some hardworking, salt-of-the-earth working poor that deserve what I have more than I do, but numbers are numbers. The mentally unbalanced and drug users like to feel good. Sex feels good.
Also, there are instances where a poor female will have the child of a man they hope will be their partner and help pull them out of poverty. This is hit or miss…usually miss.
The children are rarely planned for.
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CPS Florida agent here –
The trends that we observe are usually that those on the lower socioeconomic strata don’t have ready access to contraceptives or abortion procedures, but boy do they like to engage in coitus.
Children cost you more than you can make off of them, here. The age of the “welfare queen” ended with Reagan. That is a common misconception. Our poor families with lots of kids are made poorer.
Along with poverty, there are inescapable cofactors such as mental illness and drug use. Not EVERYONE, mind you. I’ve met some hardworking, salt-of-the-earth working poor that deserve what I have more than I do, but numbers are numbers. The mentally unbalanced and drug users like to feel good. Sex feels good.
Also, there are instances where a poor female will have the child of a man they hope will be their partner and help pull them out of poverty. This is hit or miss…usually miss.
The children are rarely planned for.
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how long have people been despondent and oppressed to the point that the only thing that they can afford to do in order to feel something other than despair is to have sex because it costs nothing?
how long have people been despondent and oppressed to the point that the only thing that they can afford to do in order to feel something other than despair is to have sex because it costs nothing?
how long have people been despondent and oppressed to the point that the only thing that they can afford to do in order to feel something other than despair is to have sex because it costs nothing?
I would imagine it is age old. In the olden times more kids meant more potential labors. And, you had to play the odds because some might not make it.
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