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bucolic_frolic

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1. Puritanical

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue May 3, 2022, 07:53 AM

May 2022

Puritan New England is where women produced. Eight, ten, 12, 14, 17, 19 children. Popped them out year after year. When wife #1 wore out, you started on wife #2. Didn't even have to marry her in some cases. It was survival to them - many children meant labor and in a a world of disease and primitive medicine, survival into adulthood.

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