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If losing a child is inherently mentally damaging, does that means that, for most of history, the majority of the adult population lived their lives with serious emotional trauma? How did the huge child mortality rates impact general mental health and behaviour?

by /u/fan_of_the_pikachu in /r/AskHistorians

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