Oh please, it's not that bad, three or four children to get two healthy ones is more like it *snerk* infant and maternal mortality wasn't actually that bad in preindustrial England, but once more people started moving to the cities, and doctors started making a concerted effort to put midwives out of business... (Victorian doctors had no clue what they were doing, and midwives did). It was childhood diseases that did the most damage. Not that the question isn't a good one.
Another healing question, would there be magical birth control? Would Western and other patriarchal ideas about women's sexuality develop if they had that all along?
And if agricultural magic has permeated society, does this mean that suddenly there's a surplus and people can start becoming craftspeople and artists in a big way, or become soldiers in a conquering army, or what?
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Date: 2012-08-24 02:30 am (UTC)Another healing question, would there be magical birth control? Would Western and other patriarchal ideas about women's sexuality develop if they had that all along?
And if agricultural magic has permeated society, does this mean that suddenly there's a surplus and people can start becoming craftspeople and artists in a big way, or become soldiers in a conquering army, or what?