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according google in 1925 85% Swedish kids were born to married parents and "Long-term cohort studies tracking historical Swedish registry data from the early-
by Markoff 6d ago
according google in 1925 85% Swedish kids were born to married parents
and
"Long-term cohort studies tracking historical Swedish registry data from the early-to-mid 1900s indicate that approximately 2.3% to 3.6% of children experienced the death of a biological parent before reaching adulthood (under 15 to 18 years of age)"
so less than 4% of the kids experienced parental death, absolute majority was born into regular complete families, my point was like half of the Lindgren characters are missing parent for whatever reason, not one in 20 books main characters, she was clearly projecting something unhealthy unrealistic into her books, if she was following reality it would be rare in her books and not that many if not majority of her characters are from incomplete families
- watwut 6d agoWhat does it mean "according to google"? Google does not track historical demographic data. Like, use actual source. Second 4% is actually a lot. In a class of 20 kids, one will have dead parent. That makes it something all kids growing during the era are aware of. To me it suggest it should be expected for some writers to write about this group.
- Markoff 6d agoit is not that much, it means if she had 25 (4% is 1 in 25, not 1 in 20) main characters, one of them should have dead parent if she would reflect the reality and didn't have some orphan/death fetish with significant number (way way more than 1 in 25 or even 1 in 10) of her characters being orphans/foster/neglected kids
- watwut 6d agoThe "if you show a minority in your book, their number must not exceed their exact demographic share" rule would make it impossible to write about any minority. > if she would reflect the reality and didn't have some orphan/death fetish The aggressive hostility toward writing about non-majority is super weird.