Got two wrong - the obvious one about sneakily renaming bits when I'm not watching, and the one about prescribing contraceptives - I've a feeling the rules are different here in the UK.
How can anyone's favourite book be CitR? The protagonists is a whining little git who rambles on for three times as long as is needed to make the point. It'd've been a fine short story, but as a novel it drags and drags.
Yes, almost certainly a good proportion were marching off to die.
My grandfather fought in the Somme - and also against the Boers! All the men in his small Kentish village came back alive (if not intact and undisturbed) from the war, but then a third of them died the next year from the flu.
Well, that's supply and demand for you. A ready supply of customers looking for somewhere to live, and a whole heap of houses which didn't go away just 'cos no one could afford them. It was fairly inevitable that either you bulldoze them, or their value falls sufficiently to allow people to afford them again - either rental or purchased.
Which end of teens makes a difference - there's a world of difference between thirteen and nineteen. Neither is great as an age to start having kids, but one's far far worse than the other.
My grandfather fought in the Somme - and also against the Boers!
All the men in his small Kentish village came back alive (if not intact and undisturbed) from the war, but then a third of them died the next year from the flu.
You can teach at these people all day, but they just won't see the light, 'cos they're fairly convinced they've already seen the light.