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hlthe2b

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2. I'm not sure it was all malign, albeit intrusive. Infants born to mothers with no father indicated were 59% more

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Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:59 AM

Oct 19

likely to suffer early infant death--presumedly from a lack of resources. Those who listed two parents, but not living together, were 17% more likely to die early. This is from data from the UK, but presumedly similar in this country. So, it was a means to monitor social welfare issues. Again, there might have been more malign reasons, but at least this documented the problem with
(mostly) fathers who ditched any financial responsibility.

https://shs.cairn.info/revue-annales-de-demographie-historique-2006-1-page-89?lang=en

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OMIGOD! Found copy of my mother's birth certificate from 1911, question 6 was "Legitimate?" [View all] CTyankee Oct 19 OP

"American" instead of "white" means you had enlightened grand parents Bernardo de La Paz Oct 19 #1

I do remember my grandmother HATING Billy Graham. She used to do a mean parody of him preaching. It was fun to watch. CTyankee Oct 19 #4

I'm not sure it was all malign, albeit intrusive. Infants born to mothers with no father indicated were 59% more hlthe2b Oct 19 #2

My 1947 birth certificate from West Virginia comradebillyboy Oct 19 #3

Brown v. Board of Education was decided the year I graduated from high school so I went to legally segregated CTyankee Oct 21 #5