tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post8854205761837497979..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Real Sex vs. the Contraceptive Mentality (Part 1)Darwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-60790514857661446682010-06-22T21:28:52.980-04:002010-06-22T21:28:52.980-04:00Many of the great ladies of royal and noble houses...Many of the great ladies of royal and noble houses were birthin' babies constantly during their childbearing years. The practice of handing babies off to wetnurses at or shortly after birth was certainly a factor--and may have been done at least in part to ensure that some successors to the family property made it to adulthood. <br /><br />I'd be interested to see a breakdown for rural vs. urban and peasant vs. tradesman. I'd guess that folks in trades married later than farmers, and thus had smaller families.CMinorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07305306030099439903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-89287611876493171742010-06-19T11:16:54.398-04:002010-06-19T11:16:54.398-04:00Joyfulpapist,
Actually, one of the interesting th...Joyfulpapist,<br /><br />Actually, one of the interesting things I found in researching part two is that it's not actually the case that the rich have fewer children than the poor in all societies. Some studies of wills in the England, Germany and also in Japan in the medieval and renaissance periods show the people with larger estates to leave their children consistently having more children surviving at the time of their death than those with less money/resources.<br /><br />Of course, that may partly be survival rate. But in those same societies the rich tended to marry younger than the poor -- something which is reversed our society.<br /><br />Our current problems have certainly existed before. The Greeks and Romans worried pretty openly about similar issues. But it's interesting that we've seen a complete reversal of trend over the last 200 years.Darwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-39911343380979833382010-06-19T05:50:51.541-04:002010-06-19T05:50:51.541-04:00Thank you Darwin. I've linked to this from my ...Thank you Darwin. I've linked to this from my blog. I look forward to reading the rest.<br /><br />One point that has always interested me is that wealthy people in all of recorded history have tended to have smaller families than poorer people of the same culture. And women who are educated in scholarly skills tend to have smaller families than those without such an education. So the rural/civic issue is not the only one, by a - I nearly wrote by a country mile - let's say by a long shot.<br /><br />joyfulpapist.wordpress.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com