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You can't be as deeply involved in your kids' lives if you've got 8 of them. There is a reason why every large family has sibling-parents. Visible elements of
by UncleMeat 7mo ago
You can't be as deeply involved in your kids' lives if you've got 8 of them. There is a reason why every large family has sibling-parents.
Visible elements of pronatalism are largely focused on assigning a particular family role to women and trying to increase the supply of a particular kind of desirable baby (often white, but sometimes focused on IQ selection and other eugenic elements).
- jeffreyrogers 7mo agoI only know one family with >=8 kids (they have 10) and not that well so I can't really comment on them. I know many with 4-6 kids though. It's true that in most cases the women have a traditional family role (not always though, I know one couple where the wife is a very successful cardiologist and the husband is an athletic trainer). Parental involvement is usually higher in these families than among the 2-3 children, 2 professional parent families I know, mostly because one parent is either not working or working in a reduced capacity. The eugenics part doesn't match my experience at all. I've never seen any evidence that people who are having large families are motivated by that.
- UncleMeat 7mo agoI suspect that parental involvement is higher in aggregate but not when it comes to the time dedicated to each child. Every younger sibling from a large family that I know was in large part raised by their older siblings.