Thomas Malthus Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.

  Thomas Malthus

  Children, Eugenics, Population

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.63, Penguin UK

• In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

  Thomas Malthus

  Children, Couple, Twenties

• Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

  Thomas Malthus

  Children, Wife, Three

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