• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Before modern medicine, often people would have a ton of kids because they would frequently die.

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      Before modern medicine, often people would have a ton of kids because they would frequently die.

      Before modern medicine, birth control and abortions were much harder to come by, too.

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      1 month ago

      Rather than attributing this to the lack of modern medicine, I would attribute this to the lack of television and the internet. 🤣