re: #225 Targetpractice

There’s a reason that families used to have as many kids as they could pop out. When half those kids might not live to see adulthood due to a variety of childhood illnesses and injuries that could strike them dead at an instance, you didn’t take the chance. The so-called “nuclear family” is yet another modern reality that we’ve taken for granted.

People do not remember the time - which was within the lives of some - when infectious disease was one of the, if not THE biggest killer of people. Or when child mortality was around 50%. Boomers have a vague recollection of having the measles and having to stay home from school for a week. What they don’t remember was of the 500,000 kids a year who came down with measles in the 1950s, 4-500 of them died.

It’s not as benign as a lot of people remember it being.