rural america 15 yo and pregnant
checks out
having more kids because hubby made good money is the real story here. Politicians keep mourning low birth rates (albeit some seem too happy to offset them with migration) and keep saying since this is a problem in all industrialized nations must be wealth causing it. Real story is, if wages so low the mother has to work fulltime, they are less likely to get children, if any. Basically we, the workers, get bred out of the DNA pool slowly.
Ironically, one of the factors of lowered birthrates in the US is because the working class has veen earning less and less since Reagan due to inflation and the rich fucks continually hoovering up all the increases in wealth for themselves.
But the billionaires don’t even want high birthrates. Many of them see the rest of us as parasites and want everyone but their personal serfs to die off.
That’s exactly why politicians are targeting women’s healthcare here in the US - they don’t want to pay more wages, but they also want the birth rate up and women staying at home raising babies. Teen pregnancies have reduced a lot, so they’re taking away sex education and contraception and abortion.
Yep I’d at least have one kid if I could afford it. But as it stands 1 kid would make life pay check to pay check and hellish. Me and my wife both even have “decent” jobs. Jobs that 20 years ago would have paid enough for a family of 4 and a suburban house, but today not so much.
hubby was 17 and bringing in six figures? Damn, competition out there is tough
HVAC guys can bring in that much.
They work 6, 12 hour days to do it. But they can make pretty good money. They just don’t get to spend it.
They can also make next to nothing. Depending on unionization status and how busy their area is.
Housing booms lead to HVAC booms 20 years later. But in between, it’s a bit slow.
It was probably 5 figures when you needed 4 to buy a car and 5 to buy a house.
Young motherhood nothwithstanding, it must be kind of cool for the oldest/youngest to be able to see that many generations of your family alive at one time. I only vaguely remember some of my (great) grandparents, I can’t imagine seeing seven generations, I bet the extended families are huge.
From youngest to oldest, the gaps are:
15 years
18
19
18
13
20Some of those numbers are not very pleasant…
70…83??
That’s very concerning if this is all matrilineal
They say 7 generations, and they aren’t counting generations as Gen X and Gen Y, they seem to be counting them as mother to child. So, there is a 13 year old that had a child, and a 15 year old holding her 1 month old.
Here is the best I could do with something that is remotely trustworthy as a source: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-living-generations-(ever)
Guinness confirms the lineage, though they give slightly different ages than what’s in the image here at 109, 89, 70, 52, 33, 15, and a newborn. With that math, the ages that each woman first gave birth are 20, 19, 18, 19, and 15. That’s a little better, but 15 is still concerning, as you put it.
Aiyaa 😬
I wonder how many were first born.
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The way I like to tell it is that I’ve met someone whose great grandparents were younger than my mom.
Of course at the time I first met this person they were a newborn. But by now could have kids if the pattern holds.
I have met someone’s whose grandparents wwre younger than my mom when she got pregnant
I worked with a woman years ago who was a grandma at 34. She had her first kid at 17 and her oldest had one at 17 also.
a women
Why is this typo so common?
English orthography is dumb as shit
Thats fine as long as YALL are happy
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