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12:34 am
January 17, 2011
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Personally I think that most miscarriages just happen and no one knows why for sure, my daughter was a twin and I lost her twin quite early on in pregnancy. I really have no clue why I lost one baby and kept the other, nature is very odd at times. I dealt with it by telling myself that maybe the other baby was ill or deformed as my daughter was born perfectly healthy.
I think many more women must have miscarried in those days due to poor diet and hygiene and of course the stress our poor Anne must have been under was enormous so that could have added to her miscarriages.
3:05 am
April 9, 2011
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@ MegC – All I can say about your teaching experiences is WOW!! I am so glad that I teach in Australia. Our syllabus for the final year of junior science (Ages 15-16) has a topic directly on Evolution but like you only a small sample of questions are asked in the statewide exam on that topic. In Senior Biology though, about 1/2 the course in first year has its basis in Evolution so you're pretty screwed if you choose to sit out. And in the final year there is an elective on Human Evolution, which I choose to teach. Touching wood as I type this I have had no problems in this area ever from students or parents. I think it's because not only of our attitudes towards Evolution in our country but because I make it very clear at the start that I don't expect them to believe it but just to understand it well enough to answer questions scientifically in a Science exam. If they choose to believe a giant tutu wearing Teddy Bear made the world that's fine but don't write that in the exam. I can also imagine you'd struggle to get our subject Earth & Environmental Science running in your school. Even though it is Geology and Environment based, it's foundation heavily relies on the concepts of evolution and the 4 billion year old Earth. I think Australia is lucky cause people at least have to undertand the world needs to be at least 40 000 years old since that's when our indigenous people arrived in our country and the fact our soil is very old and Western Australia has the oldest rocks on Earth. I just couldn't begin to imagine teaching Biolgy without the foundation of evolution to explain, well nearly everything. If my Catholic school was happy to teach me evolution and human evolution I don't understand the cries of other christian groups.
Getting back to the topic: Thanks everybody into your thoughts and opinions about this topic they have been very thought provoking.
10:47 am
February 24, 2010
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I just read this in the history book I'm reading. Statistics on babies born to the aristocracy. In a report by Lawrence Stone-Crisis of the Aristocracy. I don't know the answer as to why there were so many miscarriages, but the stats are interesting.
Among the nobility during Henry's time:
19% of first marriages were barren and 29% failed to produce living males.
2nd marriages proved less fertile. 48% were barren and 58% son-less.
4:06 pm
April 11, 2011
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Sharon said:
I just read this in the history book I'm reading. Statistics on babies born to the aristocracy. In a report by Lawrence Stone-Crisis of the Aristocracy. I don't know the answer as to why there were so many miscarriages, but the stats are interesting.
Among the nobility during Henry's time:
19% of first marriages were barren and 29% failed to produce living males.
2nd marriages proved less fertile. 48% were barren and 58% son-less.
Sharon, as these are figures for the nobility, who enjoyed the best living conditions, I assume such figures would have been much higher amongst middle and poorer sections of the population. Given the fact those those who survived during these times were then subject to a high mortality rate through plague or other illness and indeed war, it seems somewhat fortunate that the human race has done as well as it has to reach our present position.
8:48 am
February 24, 2010
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Neil Kemp said:
Sharon said:
I just read this in the history book I'm reading. Statistics on babies born to the aristocracy. In a report by Lawrence Stone-Crisis of the Aristocracy. I don't know the answer as to why there were so many miscarriages, but the stats are interesting.
Among the nobility during Henry's time:
19% of first marriages were barren and 29% failed to produce living males.
2nd marriages proved less fertile. 48% were barren and 58% son-less.
Sharon, as these are figures for the nobility, who enjoyed the best living conditions, I assume such figures would have been much higher amongst middle and poorer sections of the population. Given the fact those those who survived during these times were then subject to a high mortality rate through plague or other illness and indeed war, it seems somewhat fortunate that the human race has done as well as it has to reach our present position.
I agree. I thought the same thing when I saw the figures.
