Puritans also established the first US public schools, probably the blackest mark on their record
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"Sexual intercourse was taboo on the Lord's Day. The Puritans believed that children were born on the same day of the week as when they had been conceived. Unlucky infants who entered the world on the Sabbath were sometimes denied baptism."
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"Throughout the Western world in the seventeenth century . . . twice as many conceptions occurred in the peak month of April as in the summer months." Woh (this pattern was absent in New England)
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Replying to @literalbanana @eigenrobot
of course you'd be the one person to not understand that sentence
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oh come on it was a perfect ownhttps://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1056779511713357829?s=21 …
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now it just seems like i'm being mean
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Replying to @fire__exit @eigenrobot
it made more sense to me if it was births because giving birth in the middle of winter seems like a bad time
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Replying to @literalbanana @fire__exit
maybe there's more downtime for infant care then? no crops to tend
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they also were basically always procreating except for sunday's something like nine births/family was average maybe Protestant Work Ethic doesnt allow for downtime between pregnancies
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protestant pork ethic
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