M&D Deep Duck Where are all the children?

[alice malice]

in 1775, the 13 colonies has a population of apx. 2.6mm, 2.1mm white,
540000 blacks, 50,000 or fewer Native American; 21% of the people
lived in Virginia and 22% were in Penn. and Mass., 11% each. In
Philadelphia there were 35,000. The 13 colonies were not dependent,
for anything, on England, Europe, or anyplace else. Still the case in
the US, where trade comprises a relatively small percentage of the
Economy.   In 1775, the Colonies had 1/3 as many inhabitants as the
mother country, and more than 30% of her economic output. As
Franklin's famous demographic publications, though flawed, as were
Malthusian Theories all, predicted, the colonies would, in a few
generations, far outnumber the inhabitants in England.  This because
the average family had 8 children in the colonies but only 4 in
England. It was not the poor who, in their ignorance and poverty,
living on the 1% of the wealth of the nation that were supporting
large families, for other than the enslaved population, where family
size was also 8 children, America was not 19th century industrial or
urban Europe, the black poverty of Pip or  Blake's Chimney Sweeper did
not exist in America, as it was only the 18th century, but more so
because America was prosperous and people married younger and
sustained large families on the land and wealth, not on poverty and
infant mortality and abuse.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> a valid point  but the large families may not have been the ones cashing in on economic growth.
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