Sure, it made sense to agrarian families before 1900, when to farm the land, one needed two spouses, grandparents, and a raft of children.

当然婚姻对1900年之前的耕地家庭很重要，因为那个时候，为了耕种一块地，一个家庭需要两个妻子，爷爷奶奶和很多孩子。

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IN MUCH of continental Europe, where over-manning is rife, two separate arbiters are needed to settle the essential Christmas question of whether children have been naughty or nice.

欧洲大陆的很多地方随处可见人员冗杂的机关单位。 每当圣诞节到来，都会有这么一个关键问题，谁是好孩子，该得到奖励？

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Anu says she would have stopped having children after the first two daughters, but her husband and mother-in-law kept insisting the family needed a son.

阿奴说，在生了两个女儿之后，她本不想再生了，但无奈丈夫和婆婆坚称家里需要男孩。

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Of 94 children screened last spring, seven had undiagnosed heart disease and two needed surgery.

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She quit in 1983 and moved to San Antonio to raise her two children and needed a source of income when she got divorced five years later.

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By then I was a mother with two small children I needed to support and my passion was being able to keep them fed and clothed with a roof over their heads.

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Two hours in, the children onboard needed to pee in a plane with no bathrooms.

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