tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post7260575050409538203..comments2024-03-26T09:49:07.212-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: Women and Children FirstK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-15007563029768618982013-02-01T08:09:17.721-08:002013-02-01T08:09:17.721-08:00"We're still trying to work out what happ..."We're still trying to work out what happened to all of their illegitimate babies"<br /><br />I know you're just being snarky, but that's actually a good question. Reading fiction from the 1800s and early 1900s, there's the impression that the world was crawling with orphans (without being too clear as to whether the parents were actually dead, or had just dumped the kids at the orphanage). And reading biographies of famous people, the number who lost one or both parents while the famous person was a child, is huge[1]. But, I haven't found a good estimate of just how many orphans or children raised by single parents there *were* at the time. The records are evidently sketchy. So are orphans common in older fiction because they make a good story, or because there were many, many orphans? Beats me. <br /><br />So, how common *were* unwanted and abandoned children in the old days, anyway?<br /><br />--<br />[1] And then there's the massive infant death rate. When people kind of expected maybe a quarter of newborn children to die within a couple of years, how do you distinguish the ones who died of disease from the ones who died of neglect because their parents didn't really want them?tim eiselehttp://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-66143975976362600332013-02-01T05:19:52.739-08:002013-02-01T05:19:52.739-08:00Ivyan, haven't you been watching TV and the mo...Ivyan, haven't you been watching TV and the movies? People in those bygone eras were doing it just as much as we were, they were just hypocrites about it.<br /><br />We're still trying to work out what happened to all of their illegitimate babies, but don't worry, we'll find them. There's just no way that modern morality is worse. None!K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-26449945971297660472013-02-01T04:47:16.788-08:002013-02-01T04:47:16.788-08:00Anon, those birth control methods don't always...Anon, those birth control methods don't always work. The solution is a return to the values and faith of a bygone era.Jedi Master Ivyannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-61995273549336548552013-01-31T13:41:32.241-08:002013-01-31T13:41:32.241-08:00What a piece of crap he is. He should have put a ...What a piece of crap he is. He should have put a "raincoat" on it. That, and there are other ways to prevent pregnancy. If you are too immature to have sex, and the consequences of it, then you shouldn't be doing it. Actions have consequences, and killing a baby is wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com