Maintaining Mental Function and staving off insanity post SHTF

[Mortblanc]

The standard until 1850 was that 1/2 died in the first year. 1/2 the survivors died before age 10.

Meaning that 1 of 4 survived to what they considered adulthood. Yep, different point of view of adulthood in that time. We stretch childhood out to 25 and they ended it at 10.

Death of women in childbirth is a tricky figure to calculate. Pre1850 the death rate was 1 out of 100 births. Factoring that in, with up to 10 pregnancies per female, that could mean as many as 1 out of 10 women died in childbirth. If one factors 5 births per lifetime the ratio goes down to 1 out of 20.

That is still better odds than women have with heart disease in today's world. Women now survive childbirth to die of heart attack or stroke.

All in all saying that the human race will stop copulating due to stress and crisis is an absurdity. Were that so the human race would have gone extinct sometime during the hunter-gatherer stage.

The same teens/20-somethings that are squirting out babies right now without regard for the circumstances and sensibility of the situation will keep right on squirting them out at the same rate or better.

And remember, just because you have decided to abstain does not mean your partner has decided to abstain! After all, we will be on the barter system.