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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1379918)	11/18/2022 12:00:37 PM
From: Jamie153	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580340

"We have almost no evidence for lower class families. For upper class families, there is very little evidence for large families. In the mid second second century BC, Tiberius Gracchus and Cornelia had twelve children, three of whom survived to adulthood (Plutarch, Lives of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus 1). We find some evidence in the imperial household of large families: Germanicus and Agrippina had six children survive to adulthood. Julia and Agrippa had five children. But outside the imperial family, we look in vain for other similarly large families. If we look through Pliny’s Letters, the families who appear are mostly small, one or two children. Pliny himself was an only child. He seems to have had very little close family." https://ancientromanhistory31-14.com/households-families-men-and-women/size-and-form-of-the-family/

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1379918)	11/18/2022 12:01:28 PM
From: Jamie153	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580340

Why limit family size?The Roman economy was predominantly agriculture, which means that most wealth was invested in land. That investment would not grow quickly. They also operated a partible inheritance system. This meant that the wealth of the parents was normally equally divided between the children. Since status was related to wealth, then two parents who passed their wealth to two children could expect those children to be of the same status. If you had three children, you needed to find more property somehow. If you had four children, their economic and social status would fall.