> was having children 80 years ago or 50 years ago easier? 80 years ago you fucking krauts were on track to kill almost 20% of population of my country. i guess in that particular part of history rising up children was actually harder in here. it was easier before ww2, because there was nothing to control interactions between parents and children, so you could just beat the shit out of spoiled brat, to make it behave. there was also far less influence from media, that makes parents taking unnecessary precautions on rising their children nowadays. please note that most families with many children are these, whose parents just don't give a fuck about anything. back in the days there was nothing to give you an example of artificiary made model of parenthood to give a fuck about. > how could people manage 3-5 kids at the same time? because older children take care of younger. reason why your daughter is sucking all energy out of you is because you're the only one who she can interact with in your house. otherwise she would do most of that stuff with her siblings. with 3-5 kids in the house you have practically kindergarden that take cares of itself for 9/10 situations, that you usually need to deal with, just by yourself. whenever younger kid tries to do something stupid, there's older kid who won't let it etc.
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