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in reply to a message by Bear
Twenty children? Believe it!
I live in a French-speaking area of Canada, northern New Brunswick, and this did happen. Not now, certainly, but a few generations back. Twenty is a lot (understatement!, but 13, 14, 15 children was not uncommon.
People married early, the men as well as the women.
It must have been hard! Imagine, being pregnant for more than twenty years, pretty much.
One would say, the big kids looked after the little ones, and I suppose that did happen, but not all the time. The boys had to go to work as soon as possible, and indeed so did the girls, or else the girls, in their turn, also married young.
I live in a French-speaking area of Canada, northern New Brunswick, and this did happen. Not now, certainly, but a few generations back. Twenty is a lot (understatement!, but 13, 14, 15 children was not uncommon.
People married early, the men as well as the women.
It must have been hard! Imagine, being pregnant for more than twenty years, pretty much.
One would say, the big kids looked after the little ones, and I suppose that did happen, but not all the time. The boys had to go to work as soon as possible, and indeed so did the girls, or else the girls, in their turn, also married young.
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