| How many children is it OK to have before it officially gets weird? |
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How many children is it OK to have before it officially gets weird?
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Asked 176 days ago
by davisfreeberg  United States |
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For bonus points, answer whether or not your vote was greater or less then your own family. My family is nuts, I voted less.
Fun question. I grew up with one sister, and think the more the merrier... to a point. ;)
I answered more, 'cause I'm an only child! ;-)
Well, we are evolved to have only 4-5 maximum. Puberty has later onset, and menopause earlier, in hunter-gatherers, limiting actual reproductive years to about 20. With the effects of lower nutrition and extended (4-5 year) nursing periods limiting fertility, that means a maximum of 4 or 5 pregnancies in a lifetime, of which not much more than half would survive to reproductive age, on average.
Just because we invented agriculture, we don't need to breed like mice.
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[1 point] 175 days ago by deleted user ReplyNope. Women pretty much already know that. Unless there is a concerted campaign to force breeding, as some of the religions in this country do, and as some cultural imperatives form other countries do, women pretty much quit breeding like barnyard animals the minute they have both contraception available, and the support of the community to prevent their husbands from harming them if they use it.
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[1 point] 175 days ago by deleted user ReplyEducation is *always* valuable. My point was only that most women don't need to be told that bearing every year, or every other year, is a bad thing to do to themselves.
Someone should have told that to Michelle Duggar, she is on 18 and counting.
There are people on the edge of every spectrum.
And what religious and or party affiliation is she?
Catholic? Mormon?
Oh, her website's banner ad is is "Children are the heritage of the Lord" from the Psalms. Once brainwashed, people frequently act contrary to their own self-interest, as American politics, and, yes, the Republican party in particular, prove daily.
She can't even spend an hour a day with each child. What kind of neglectful parent is that?
Dauguy - What did life do to you to make you so bitter. It's one thing not to believe in other religions or politics, but another to hate people who do. You should do some self reflection and learn to be more tolerant of things that you are not a part of. You wouldn't like it if religious or political people made fun of your belief system or lifestyle, so why are you mocking others?
Actually, Dauguy, I believe they are neither Catholic nor Mormon, they are conservative Baptists who endorse the Quiverfull movement, sorry to debunk that tired religious cliche. Oh, and as for party affiliation, yes they are Republican, but the Kennedy's well, yes, while Catholic are Democrats and had a rather large family.
So? So Is that less in favor of women;s reproductive choice than than the two I mentioned? I warn you, I was RAISED Southern Baptist, so I if you say they are not, I can tell you you are wrong.
All three love the idea of women as chattel of their husbands.
I wasn't aware Southern Baptists were "less in favor of women's reproductive choice," but you didn't mention them, you said "Catholic? Mormon?" just pointing out you went only to the obvious.
As exmplars, not as an exhaustive list. An Southern Baptists are fundamentalists, all of whom oppose women's reproductive freedom. It is, they maintain, 'against the Bible.'
Anybody having more than one should seriously question their sanity.
How about the Duggars, 18 and counting . . .
I don't know that I can say that number X is the most and X + 1 is weird.
As long as you can afford, care for, and love ALL your kids I say have as many as you want. If you can't afford, care for, or love ALL your kids then you have too many.
Of course having 18 kids like the Duggars seems weird and excessive to me. But I couldn't tell you at what point it would have moved from "okay, that's more than I'd have but ok" to "You have how many kids, and why???"
The only thing relevant is being able to support them and love them. As long as you can do that, the more the merrier. :-)