rightwinger
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Still don’t believe it.They had not a high number of children. 1-3. Sure they had more births - because the average life span was much lower than today. Babies and children often died. It exists by the way also nothing what I could call "dark age" - except the early 20th century. Practically everything what the English speaking pseudo-intellectuals say about the middle ages is nothing else than only bullshit.I gotta call Linky, Linky on that onePS: Catholic orthodoxy has long shunned birth control. Where ya been?
Most people think that the families in the middles ages, when everyone was a Catholic in the civilized part of Europe, were big poor families as had existed during early industrialization - but that's wrong. Catholics had in average always the same family size as it is usual today in the western world: 1-3 children (in average).
Catholics in the Middle Ages may have ended up with smaller families because of childhood mortality. But they had large numbers of children
I grew up in the 60s and Catholic Families had 4-7 kids.
Without birth control, I doubt there was any family planning in the middle ages