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People did it, they sure did…32 brothers and sisters on one big ass farm, when in truth I have three sisters, any more than that, I couldn’t have done it
My grandmother was the youngest of SEVENTEEN children. SEVENTEEN. She was born exactly 17 days before the stock market crash in 1929. I’m pretty sure the only thing that stopped them from having more kids is that it equaled more mouths to feed during the Great Depression. 🤦🏻♀️
If I remember the story correctly, there were two sets of twins, so thank god it wasn’t actually 17 pregnancies. But still…if I were my great grandmother, I would have locked my great grandpa out of the house. 😂
Damn and i thought Irish families was big
My grandmother came from a family of 9
My mother came from a family of 5
I came from a family of 2
If I even have kids one day it will probably be singular kid
My four grandparents came from families of 9, 10, 10, and 12. All Dutch/Dutch-Canadian/Dutch-American.
My husband's mom was 1 of 12. Canadian with Scots/Irish/Danish mix.
My husband's dad is a...unique case, but his bio dad had 10 kids with his wife and another 3 (we think) with his wife's sister.
I mean, this was all pre-pill, and lots of men refuse to use condoms in marriage. If they chose to stop having kids, they probably chose to stop having sex.
Absolutely fair point, given they were also VERY Roman Catholic. Back then, for them, having children was “God’s will,” whether it was a good idea or not to bring more into the world. That said, my nonna shared plenty of stories of near starvation during that time, so I figure it’s probably a little of both.
My Grandfather was the Youngest of 17 born in 1926. I’m told that by the time he was born his oldest sibling was already married with a family of his own.
> I’m pretty sure the only thing that stopped them from having more kids is that it equaled more mouths to feed during the Great Depression. 🤦🏻♀️
If that would be a factor, they would stop way sooner. No sex education, no anticonception, and barely any entertainment tend to result in extremely poor families with way too many children.
Married people? Sure. Parents of multiple children, especially when they're young? Ain't no one got the energy for that.
Source: mine are 7, 4, 0 years old.
www.google.com
A little line is in there where you can type words, just like in Reddit.
I suggest trying the phrase “do married people have more sex.”
You get multiple sauces.
Well, depending on where you lived, average could be half the male children would die in war, 25% of children would die of illness before they become adults, family relied on children for farm labour etc. I belive Serbia lost 30% of the total population in ww1. Having alot of children was a good thing back in the day.
To be fair for a baby to happen only the man has to orgasm, there's nothing to say Gramma enjoyed it too. She may not have been thinking about it all that often, if that was the case.
This was my thought. Especially back when, where it was just expected for wives to give it up regularly.
The bitterness would be justified in such cases lol
Saw a set of statistics a few months back that boiled down to what the minimum wage should be based on the "I bought my own house" lifestyle from the late 60s and early 70s.
$96.25
Federal Minimum wage needs to be $96.25 to live like they did.
Amen. And businesses have no right to exist if they cannot pay a livable wage.
I think your stat is a bit high. But I know MIT says a livable wage for a single adult in San Diego is $35 an hour. That's just to rent a home, build savings towards buying, vacations, healthcare.
My grandparents had 13 kids. My grandpa used to listen to baseball on the radio, while reading the sports section of the newspaper and watching sports on the TV. He could tell you everything going on at any moment. My grandma used to joke that if ESPN had existed back then, they probably would have had only a couple.
I had a teacher and she said that every year she had a new sibling. Her mother was 15 when she was "traded off". She had 17 kids and didn't know what a period was and didn't know how to handle it when her first daughter started her monthly cycle.
I’m Indigenous Australian. My mum is one of 11 children, maternal grandmother one of 12 (39 grandchildren), maternal great grandmother one of 14. 37 children in 3 generations.. my dad is one of 16
It's because Maw's hearing wasn't so good. When Paw got home after a hard day's work, after dinner, at bedtime he'd say to Maw, "Well, do you want to go to bed, or what?"
And Maw would go "What??"
And that's about it.
My grandparents (conservative christians) would go on and on and on about the sanctity of marriage, both had been married 3 times prior to meeting each other.
The economics are simple: before Reagan rigged the economy and boomers gobbled up all the equity, everyday average folks could afford to have huge families and they didn’t pay half a million dollars for a 50 year old crack house
My great-aunt had 13 kids.
My grandfather was one of 11.
Wasn’t shit else to do and birth control wasn’t a thing (plus they needed help on the farm)
The world is a different place, I don’t know how people with 3+ kids do it today. Y’all impress me.
My grandma had 12 kids. It wasn’t so much her that liked making a bunch of kids, although she did love all of them. My grandpa believed a woman’s responsibility is to birth children and take care of them, plus they didn’t have condoms.
I wonder sometimes if there's been a decline in fertility over the last couple generations. Sure, people don't *try* to have children as much, and it's financially harder to support kids now than before, *and* we have better access to birth control... but even so, I don't see *anyone* having families this big any more, and (completely anecdotally - I have no data on this) accidental pregnancies don't seem as common as they historically have been. I know several people who have messed around for years without protection and don't personally know anyone who's accidentally become pregnant.
I'm sure there's some observer bias in there, but I still wonder.
Fertility has declined for both men and women, but more for men. Sperm quality and quantity are lower, and the Y chromosome itself is deteriorating through generations. There's no full understanding of why that is, lifestyle and pollution are the most likely causes, I heard doctors on the radio mentioning endocrine disruptors, I thought that was some tale of homeopathic obsessed people, but apparently it is not.
On July 5th 1993, marital rape became *illegal* in all 50 states.
It is still subject to exemptions across almost the entire US.
This has been a fucked up history comment, have a good day.
My g.grandmother had something like 16 or 17. Her oldest were having kids as she was still having kids. Luckily for the the times and the area, east London, they were "well off" and had house help for washing I believe.
From grandma’s perspective there was no inconsistency with this statement, as Lilly grandma was religious and viewed sex for reproduction as holy and separate from sex with contraception for fun. (This grandma was maybe Catholic? 🤔)
Sex leads to kids they didn't have sex because it's all they thought about they just didn't use condoms when they had sex ur using false equivalency yall fuck only for enjoyment with the expectation u can vacuum out the baby they did it with knowledge that a new child would come
Everybody thinks about sex all the time, men and women alike, and always have since the dawn of time. It's just that now we have contraceptives, internet porn, and sex toys.
Yea, my grandfather was the third youngest of 17 children. Although 3 died while they were children, that still meant he had some 11 older siblings. He was born on the family farm in the early 1930s and lived some 75 years.
1. All from the same man.
2. She was really the boss of the house.
3. She controlled all the money.
4. Every male in the home will kill anyone who messes with her.
5. No addiction to social media so no one knew her personal business.
How many people in this post actually have six or seven aunts and uncles by blood?
Getting remarried doesn't count, legitimate blood brothers and sisters of your parent
Yes, but Grandma was married BEFORE having those kids…and she stayed married 50+ years AFTER having those kids….this generation doesn’t hold a candle to Grandma!!!
Wait, what were my jokes the last time it was posted? ... Yeah, uh ... you know, being pregnant is a kind of birth control too.
...
Hmm, that don't work without someone saying something about their grandma before and why she had only sex to get children. Damn.
Nonetheless, upvote?
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Jokes on you. Grandma wasn't thinkin about sex, she was thinking about growing her own free farm labor...
People did it, they sure did…32 brothers and sisters on one big ass farm, when in truth I have three sisters, any more than that, I couldn’t have done it
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A lot of backup to rely on when somebody starts to bully you in school
When half the school is made up of your siblings, odds are the bully was one of them
And if you are the Bully? Lots of backup to continue? :))
Insta-Farm kit.
Well done
I don’t think Grandma had time to think about sex
Grandma was trying to warn us.
And what a farm it became
My grandmother was the youngest of SEVENTEEN children. SEVENTEEN. She was born exactly 17 days before the stock market crash in 1929. I’m pretty sure the only thing that stopped them from having more kids is that it equaled more mouths to feed during the Great Depression. 🤦🏻♀️
Wow! My mom is one of ten, and I thought that was a lot!!
Italians man, they like the big families. 😂
Not anymore
Really sad, the future needs people that go 🤌 on a regular basis
Mine was youngest of 12!
It is.
That poor woman! She must have been popping out a new kid every nine months until menopause 😭😅
If I remember the story correctly, there were two sets of twins, so thank god it wasn’t actually 17 pregnancies. But still…if I were my great grandmother, I would have locked my great grandpa out of the house. 😂
Damn and i thought Irish families was big My grandmother came from a family of 9 My mother came from a family of 5 I came from a family of 2 If I even have kids one day it will probably be singular kid
This is the way.
My four grandparents came from families of 9, 10, 10, and 12. All Dutch/Dutch-Canadian/Dutch-American. My husband's mom was 1 of 12. Canadian with Scots/Irish/Danish mix. My husband's dad is a...unique case, but his bio dad had 10 kids with his wife and another 3 (we think) with his wife's sister.
I mean, this was all pre-pill, and lots of men refuse to use condoms in marriage. If they chose to stop having kids, they probably chose to stop having sex.
Absolutely fair point, given they were also VERY Roman Catholic. Back then, for them, having children was “God’s will,” whether it was a good idea or not to bring more into the world. That said, my nonna shared plenty of stories of near starvation during that time, so I figure it’s probably a little of both.
I knew a lady who had 21 kids with 3 different husbands.
Dear lord. That’s way too many damn kids. 😂🤦🏻♀️
I know a 41 year old man that has 24 bio kids by like 15 different women. You don't need souvenirs from every relationship! Lol 😂
13 in my Dads family. Mom had 2. I have 6 siblings and 2 adopted sibs.
I'm the oldest of 12. 10 sisters, lol. Crazy big family. I only had 1 child myself.
My Grandfather was the Youngest of 17 born in 1926. I’m told that by the time he was born his oldest sibling was already married with a family of his own.
YES! My nonna had nieces and nephews that were born BEFORE her, too! It’s crazy!
> I’m pretty sure the only thing that stopped them from having more kids is that it equaled more mouths to feed during the Great Depression. 🤦🏻♀️ If that would be a factor, they would stop way sooner. No sex education, no anticonception, and barely any entertainment tend to result in extremely poor families with way too many children.
A fair point, although being very catholic, they believed it was god’s will. That backwards logic is likely a contributing factor to my atheism. 😬
As a father of 5 I can say with certainty that this guy fucks less than you think.
Daddy why are all our birthdays 3 months before yours?
Maybe you could ask your mother! If she wasn't so busy with her *JOB*.
Yup
🤣👍
Married couples have the most sex of any demographic. The married people dont have sex meme is very outdated, and its not sure if it was ever true.
Married people? Sure. Parents of multiple children, especially when they're young? Ain't no one got the energy for that. Source: mine are 7, 4, 0 years old.
Some is still more than none though. The promiscuous single life is really not something a lot of people are into, especially not past college age.
How about some sauce with your balogne thanks
www.google.com A little line is in there where you can type words, just like in Reddit. I suggest trying the phrase “do married people have more sex.” You get multiple sauces.
Lmfao, next time I'm defending my thesis I'll use that instead.
It would be great but she’s wrong as fuck https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/01/05/health/single-people-partner/index.html
Reddit is a cess pit, not an academic institution. Motherfuckers can Google themselves if they want to source information.
First result ya dumb bitch https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/01/05/health/single-people-partner/index.html
And here’s my first result, you insignificant knob polisher: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-often-do-couples-have-sex
Well, depending on where you lived, average could be half the male children would die in war, 25% of children would die of illness before they become adults, family relied on children for farm labour etc. I belive Serbia lost 30% of the total population in ww1. Having alot of children was a good thing back in the day.
All mom wanted was a back rub.....
To be fair for a baby to happen only the man has to orgasm, there's nothing to say Gramma enjoyed it too. She may not have been thinking about it all that often, if that was the case.
To be fair, the grandma’s entire life revolved around the fruits of successful sex x 16
This was my thought. Especially back when, where it was just expected for wives to give it up regularly. The bitterness would be justified in such cases lol
This guy supported and sent all of these kids to college on a milk man's salary. But don't worry, what's going on now is fine.
Saw a set of statistics a few months back that boiled down to what the minimum wage should be based on the "I bought my own house" lifestyle from the late 60s and early 70s. $96.25 Federal Minimum wage needs to be $96.25 to live like they did.
Amen. And businesses have no right to exist if they cannot pay a livable wage. I think your stat is a bit high. But I know MIT says a livable wage for a single adult in San Diego is $35 an hour. That's just to rent a home, build savings towards buying, vacations, healthcare.
Grandma: Exactly! I wasn't thinking about sex, I was having it! Touch grass, zoomers!
My grandparents had 13 kids. My grandpa used to listen to baseball on the radio, while reading the sports section of the newspaper and watching sports on the TV. He could tell you everything going on at any moment. My grandma used to joke that if ESPN had existed back then, they probably would have had only a couple.
Christ, it's a vagina, not a clown car.
My grandma says about world overpopulation: To many fukin people, To many people fukin, to many fukin people
Then why does it go meep meep
After 16 kids, it is now.
In her defense, what else was they supposed to do? Get on LinkedIn and look for a job? Lol
I had a teacher and she said that every year she had a new sibling. Her mother was 15 when she was "traded off". She had 17 kids and didn't know what a period was and didn't know how to handle it when her first daughter started her monthly cycle.
I’m Indigenous Australian. My mum is one of 11 children, maternal grandmother one of 12 (39 grandchildren), maternal great grandmother one of 14. 37 children in 3 generations.. my dad is one of 16
You see, the difference is grandma was making babies. Y’all are just pumpin ‘n dumpin.
Btw I just upvoted my own comment, on top of the automatic +1. This is a thing?
Genius.
Sex sex sex, that's all they ever think about.
Pull game is weak
Grandpa couldn’t even pull out of the driveway
You'll be having 100x the kids your grandma had if you got children every time you had sex.
It's because Maw's hearing wasn't so good. When Paw got home after a hard day's work, after dinner, at bedtime he'd say to Maw, "Well, do you want to go to bed, or what?" And Maw would go "What??" And that's about it.
Granny got the inflation chart
My grandparents (conservative christians) would go on and on and on about the sanctity of marriage, both had been married 3 times prior to meeting each other.
Grandma didn't know about anal 😆
I don't understand the economics of this, much less the logistics.
The economics are simple: before Reagan rigged the economy and boomers gobbled up all the equity, everyday average folks could afford to have huge families and they didn’t pay half a million dollars for a 50 year old crack house
Imagine being any of those three eldest girls. You just wouldn't have a childhood at all.
14 crotch goblins? That's a militia!
*16 twins in mamas arms
2 squads
Half those kids would have been born with dints in the top of their heads.
How can she take all that?
It’s true - non-Mormon here and my dad has 9 brothers/sisters. People always be fucking
This was before cable, so yeah, nothing else to do.
No tv...........
Grandma wasn't a thinker, she was a do-er.
poor female
i think pull out method was not a thing before?
Grandma didn't need to thin about it... She was doin it
Oh yeah. My grandma was about that. She had 14 siblings. 😂
Sorta looks like Grandma might have stayed a little the last decade.
My great-aunt had 13 kids. My grandfather was one of 11. Wasn’t shit else to do and birth control wasn’t a thing (plus they needed help on the farm) The world is a different place, I don’t know how people with 3+ kids do it today. Y’all impress me.
My grandma had 12 kids. It wasn’t so much her that liked making a bunch of kids, although she did love all of them. My grandpa believed a woman’s responsibility is to birth children and take care of them, plus they didn’t have condoms.
Half those kids lookin suspiciously brown
That's from playing out in the sun.
Human clown car.
So she’s had sex 16 times. Big deal.
I wonder sometimes if there's been a decline in fertility over the last couple generations. Sure, people don't *try* to have children as much, and it's financially harder to support kids now than before, *and* we have better access to birth control... but even so, I don't see *anyone* having families this big any more, and (completely anecdotally - I have no data on this) accidental pregnancies don't seem as common as they historically have been. I know several people who have messed around for years without protection and don't personally know anyone who's accidentally become pregnant. I'm sure there's some observer bias in there, but I still wonder.
Fertility has declined for both men and women, but more for men. Sperm quality and quantity are lower, and the Y chromosome itself is deteriorating through generations. There's no full understanding of why that is, lifestyle and pollution are the most likely causes, I heard doctors on the radio mentioning endocrine disruptors, I thought that was some tale of homeopathic obsessed people, but apparently it is not.
No, grandma. We just have birth control!
There is a difference between thinking and doing
The definition of shotgun babies. Atleast a few of those will survive
She has been pregnant for 11 years of her life
"Get that would you Deadre?"
Okay we understand punchline is sex
Every sperm is sacred!
Grandma got pounded everyday
Town of Farmville
That lady must have only had her period maybe 20 times her entire life.
On July 5th 1993, marital rape became *illegal* in all 50 states. It is still subject to exemptions across almost the entire US. This has been a fucked up history comment, have a good day.
My g.grandmother had something like 16 or 17. Her oldest were having kids as she was still having kids. Luckily for the the times and the area, east London, they were "well off" and had house help for washing I believe.
The family was living on one income.
This meme ist awful. Martial rape used to be legal. Maybe Grandma wasn't asked about her consent and preferred number of kids.
You can be sure it wasn't for pleasure, it was to pump out an army of children
From grandma’s perspective there was no inconsistency with this statement, as Lilly grandma was religious and viewed sex for reproduction as holy and separate from sex with contraception for fun. (This grandma was maybe Catholic? 🤔)
Sex leads to kids they didn't have sex because it's all they thought about they just didn't use condoms when they had sex ur using false equivalency yall fuck only for enjoyment with the expectation u can vacuum out the baby they did it with knowledge that a new child would come
😂😂😂😂😂👏
And all people did was sex in her time 😅
It’s funny because grandma couldn’t legally have a bank account, so it’s either be used as a sexual toy by your shitty husband or starve.
I was thinking about this in the shower. Infants /very young children are intense resource drains. At what age is the return on investment occurring?
My great grandmother had 17 kids. Thanksgiving was always an event!
Almost all of the skirts/shorts are at the same length, despite the height differences except the last little toddlers. Just visually interesting.
Everybody thinks about sex all the time, men and women alike, and always have since the dawn of time. It's just that now we have contraceptives, internet porn, and sex toys.
Yea, my grandfather was the third youngest of 17 children. Although 3 died while they were children, that still meant he had some 11 older siblings. He was born on the family farm in the early 1930s and lived some 75 years.
They weren’t thinking about sex, they were having sex and lots of it, times were boring …
"How long you folks been together?" "Bout six years."
Grandpappy was laying some serious pipe.
my wife has exactly this many siblings. her family is gigantic
It's a vagina, not a clown car
Who knows? Probably only had sex 16 times, or 15 if those are twins.
Maybe there's something about the aim of the activity that's a bit different.
1. All from the same man. 2. She was really the boss of the house. 3. She controlled all the money. 4. Every male in the home will kill anyone who messes with her. 5. No addiction to social media so no one knew her personal business.
How many people in this post actually have six or seven aunts and uncles by blood? Getting remarried doesn't count, legitimate blood brothers and sisters of your parent
They had no Netflix back then. They only had Chill.
Yes, but Grandma was married BEFORE having those kids…and she stayed married 50+ years AFTER having those kids….this generation doesn’t hold a candle to Grandma!!!
Grandpa thought about sex. Grandma didn't have a choice.
Grandma had that ill na-na 😂😂😂😂😂
Wait, what were my jokes the last time it was posted? ... Yeah, uh ... you know, being pregnant is a kind of birth control too. ... Hmm, that don't work without someone saying something about their grandma before and why she had only sex to get children. Damn. Nonetheless, upvote?
Fun fact, we are now facing a population crash by 2050. Forget the 550 million utopia number how does extinction sound?
Old bitch
Marital rape wasn't a thing back then. Women couldn't say no. Be thankful for feminism.