M&D Deep Duck Where are all the children?

[alice malice]

By mid-18th century the typical white household in the mainland
colonies was almost certainly enjoying the highest standard of living
anywhere around the globe.

Perkins, _The Economy of Colonial America_

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> very good stuff....corrects rightly my toss-off.
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:33 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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