Fun fact: the "step" in stepmother comes from the old English "steop" which meant loss, and originally applied to children: a steopchild was an orphan.
Maternal mortality was about one in three, every time a woman gave birth she had about a 30% chance of dying.
Mothers died, fathers remarried
@youremceekayvee.bsky.socialMan, fairy tale-era stepmom pussy must’ve been hella good to be having dads agree to leave their kids in the woods and shit.
