There's nothing wrong with having 6 kids but I think more people used to because effective birth control didn't exist. People had lots of sex back then too and

There's nothing wrong with having 6 kids but I think more people used to because effective birth control didn't exist. People had lots of sex back then too and wife's were getting knocked up frequently and at a younger age when vastly more fertile. My mother had ~40 cousins. I have 12. My kids have 4. It's no shock that the birth control pill was invented between the time my parent were born and started a family. Throw in the 64,000,000 abortions in the USA (and the ~70 millions per year globally!) since it was legalized and this is why we don't have big families anymore.