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In its end-of-year report, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics found that nearly 70,000 Israelis left the country over the course of the year, while only 19,000 returned.

In total, over 150,000 Israelis have left the country in the past two years alone, rising to over 200,000 since the current government took power.

The majority of those leaving are highly skilled professionals in their prime working years (30-49 years old), secular, and from major metropolitan areas such as Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem.

https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2025/422/01_25_422b.pdf
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/emigration-from-israel-reaches-new-heights/

Over 30 percent of children in the postcolonial Northeast were born out of wedlock. An unmarried woman who became pregnant sued the alleged father for financial support. Marriage might follow, but the community’s concern focused on the child’s financial well-being.
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Ballard chronicles her bachelor son being accused of paternity. As a midwife, Ballard represented the community and questioned women at the height of labor to identify the child’s father. The society believed that a woman could not lie at that precise moment, and childbirth statements were legally binding.
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Ballard lost five mothers out of 998 career deliveries. In comparison, London hospitals at the time reported the deaths of between 30 and 200 women per every 1000 deliveries. Ballard also recorded fewer stillbirths and neonatal deaths than her male counterparts. Some historians believe that the trend away from traditionally trained midwives and toward male physicians, considered to be more scientifically educated, negatively impacted women’s health until the mid-20th century.

--- R. Welch & P.A. Lamphier, Technical Innovation in American History. 2019. Vol 1, p 85.

But the joy of the city was most apparent in the honour and loving favour which both the senate and the whole people bestowed upon the women, declaring their belief that the city's salvation was manifestly due to them. When, however, the senate passed a decree that whatsoever they asked for themselves in the way of honour or favour, should be furnished and done for them by the magistrates, they asked for nothing else besides the erection of a temple of Women's Fortune, the expense of which they offered to contribute of themselves, if the city would undertake to perform, at the public charge, all the sacrifices and honours, such as are due to the gods.

--- Plutarch, Lives (Coriolanus: 37).

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Coriolanus*.html

“About 60 percent of Americans under age thirty-five live without a spouse or partner. People under thirty-five are more likely to live with a parent than with a partner, an outcome not seen since the nineteenth century.10 It’s not only the young. The middle-aged also live increasingly apart. Almost one-third of middle-aged Americans, aged thirty-five to fifty-four, live without a partner.11 As their lives diverge, as sexual joy recedes, men and women also vote increasingly differently.”

--- David Frum. “Trumpocalypse.”