Amen on that. As someone with relatives who have 10+ kids, I really want to strangle people who start blaming someone for having or wanting a big family. If they're so hellbent on the whole overpopulation problem, well they can bloody well tie their ovaries or get themselves neutered!
...I'm sorry for exploding on your journal, but I've been following this discussion with horror on people's lack of understanding. I find it just disgusting that people judge others based on one news article. Geesh.
Same here, about the relatives who have had lots of kids.
Hell, my mother was one of ten. Times were tough for her family, but I don't want to hear people making this kind of damned judgement call about them.
I *personally* disagree with people having big families, but I am not going to take people saying these people are stupid, horrible, or whatever, any more than I am going to take any other kind of hateful garbage. If people want a reduction in population, they can find a hell of a lot better way to get that reduction than claiming there should be enforced sterilization, euthanasia, or whatever the fuck.
Sorry, but previous articles about the family make it clear that the girls are being raised to be broodmares. The mother nurses the new kid till about six months, thne hands it off to one of the girls. It's pretty clear the girls aren't being informed they have other options. Whatever their financial condition, girls deserve to be treated as more than baby producers. With this family---the husband is a fervid anti-abortion foe----it's reasonable to conclude there's somedthing fishing going on.
Not sure I'd qualify that as abuse or very lousy parenting though- or that it calls for name calling or vilification, and I mean instant vilification of them or all families of large size
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I wonder if the mother got raised the same way, though. She's handing those babies off to girls as young as seven-years-old, effectively ending their childhoods.
*hugs* Sorry this has been upsetting. Hope people stop being unpleasant at you soon. (My mother was the youngest of 12 (surviving) children, and while I certainly don't want that many myself, I'm hardly about to shake a fist at people who do on the basis of numbers alone.)
Here's the weird part - I think you're the only one on my lists that's mentioned it at all.
Now, I think 16 is kind of excessive, personally; having been pregnant once, I couldn't imagine wanting to be that uncomfortable that many times! Labor hurts!! Plus, there's the whole forgetting names thing, and the hand-me-downs from the late seventies have got to be a bummer. ;) And oh my god, college tuitions!!!
Yes, I'm being silly. Mostly. Except for the whole not getting the liking being pregnant thing. Meh. Whatever. *loves*
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...I'm sorry for exploding on your journal, but I've been following this discussion with horror on people's lack of understanding. I find it just disgusting that people judge others based on one news article. Geesh.
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Hell, my mother was one of ten. Times were tough for her family, but I don't want to hear people making this kind of damned judgement call about them.
I *personally* disagree with people having big families, but I am not going to take people saying these people are stupid, horrible, or whatever, any more than I am going to take any other kind of hateful garbage. If people want a reduction in population, they can find a hell of a lot better way to get that reduction than claiming there should be enforced sterilization, euthanasia, or whatever the fuck.
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Now, I think 16 is kind of excessive, personally; having been pregnant once, I couldn't imagine wanting to be that uncomfortable that many times! Labor hurts!! Plus, there's the whole forgetting names thing, and the hand-me-downs from the late seventies have got to be a bummer. ;) And oh my god, college tuitions!!!
Yes, I'm being silly. Mostly. Except for the whole not getting the liking being pregnant thing. Meh. Whatever. *loves*
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