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Until the 1940’s, the absence of the welfare state meant that parents relied on their children to care for them in old age. However, although more babies were beginning to survive infancy, it was still often uncertain whether children would outlive their parents. Parents therefore often had many children as a safeguard against dying. The decline in infant mortality rate meant that fewer people die before adulthood and old age, so parents no longer have more children as a security against on a few surviving. In addition the range of agencies which exist to help the elderly today means that people are less reliant on care from their children when they reach old age.
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