re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Until the 60’s, parenting was all about making sure that your kids did not start reproducing until at least nine months after being married. Anything else was seen as a failure. My dad boycotted my older brother’s wedding in 1964 because she was three months along.
According to statisticians who examined early colonial records, more than 60% of first-born Pilgrim children were born less than 6 months after their parents married.