Why were families with only one child extremely rare back in the olden days?

Answer 1

Agricultural economy required bigger families so kids could help out on the farms. Also more kids died of childhood diseases so parents had more kids to cover themselves

Answer 2

no birth control and vaseline was invented in 1872

Answer 3

They obviously didn’t have birth control yet so

The pill wasn’t invented until 1960 and back then it was more harsh and had worse side effects, it’s much better these days

They also had a lot of kids to help out on the farm and because people usually died younger and got sick because of terrible nutrition and living/environmental conditions — they were weak and sickly and had basically no immune systems

Answer 4

it you mean last year?

many good answers

same reason people did not use cell phones for emergency in the olden days

• John P

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  5 months agoReport

  No reliable contraception. |Plus the notion that you should have several children in case some of them died young of all the unpreventable diseases which were around in those days.
  

Answer 5

They wanted to have sons

Answer 6

Farming? People needed larger families to help work the farm. . . Planned parenthood? Planned parenthood was less facilitated in some ways. . . Belongingness? Do we meet the need to belong today through other means?

Answer 7

Birth control could be spotty or, for mechanical means, illegal.

Answer 8

That's funny. They weren't in fact families with only one given child has always been the most common.

What gives you the idea litters are common at anytime amoungst people?

Answer 9

FAMILIES WITH ONLY CHILD WERE VERY RARE BACK IN THE OLD DAYS BECAUSE OF THESE FOLLOWING FACTORS:

1.) NO BIRTH CONTROL

2.) NO FAMILY PLANNING

3.) LACK OF EDUCATION

4.) MORE CHILDREN, MORE WORKERS FOR THE FIELD

5.) RELIGION: GO AND MULTIPLY

6.) HIGH INFANT MORTALITY RATE

7.) MORE CHILDREN, HIGHER FAMILY SURVIVAL

• F

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  5 months agoReport

  Exactly the same reasons as currently happens in the third world, except nowadays instead of 1 or 2 out of 10 children surviving, it's now 8 or 9, which is the reason for the massive population explosions in Africa and India.
  

Answer 10

the "olden days" is such a broad term it can refer to any time period of any length. fix it.

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  You just commented on my answer. So you already know I answered.