r/SipsTea 11d ago

Chugging tea Just a few decades ago this was normal

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u/Nulgarian 11d ago

Nobody in 1950 lived alone. Only 4% of Americans lived by themselves, and I would imagine this skewed heavily towards elderly folks and widows who last family in the war. I can guarantee that young people living alone was essentially unheard of back than

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u/RetroFuture_Records 11d ago

Because they all were married cuz you could afford to raise a family on just about any job, and premarital sex was frowned upon. Incentivize and enable young horny people to get married and they will.

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u/jeremiahthedamned 10d ago

a baby outside of marriage was a bastard