Would you like to provide the infant mortality statistics that go along with those?
When having children was a retirement strategy, one has children.
Will and Ariel Durant were entertaining writers, but they looked at the world through upper-class glasses. I used to babysit for their cousins. They were so pleased to have a girl who would spend more time with the children than on the phone that they eventually took me along to the country club to stay with them at the pool.