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Why'd you need acting like that? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Just imagine that a woman has about 10 children, then forced them to have about 5 grandchildren per child. Now she has a gang. And all of that only because she wants to have full control over the neighborhood /s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So Quebec during the Revenge of the cradles?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Revanche_des_berceaux

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow. History never ceases to amaze me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There isn't much detail in the English article, but to give you an example of how crazy things got, the 25th child of a family had free education... The average was 14 child per family at its peak! French Canadians in New Brunswick went from 15% to 40% of the province's population over a century even if french immigration was basically non existent while English immigration was...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You make it sound like bad to have a family gang. It has so many uses, great for ilegal stuff, great for polítics, great for business, it is all benefits of controlling up to certain point a large group of people and having a strong link with them.