The world is already overpopulated and we have food and water shortages

Large families is what has led to population overgrowth

4 points for loving my animals! I've tried marriage, and it doesn't seem to work for me. I don't know if it's OCD diagnosis, or that I always choose the wrong person? I've even picked the wrong pet before! ;-D

Pick it up would you Diedre?

I don't believe people should have that many kids because all of them will not get the proper attention that they really need

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One of my Grandparents gave birth to 12 children, the other was 8 children so I had lots of aunts and uncles as well as lots of cousins. I am an only child. I gave birth to 3 children.

I think 2 or 3 kids makes for a beautiful family.

You should only have as many children as you can realistically afford!

The orphanages are overflowing so if you want kids- ADOPT ALREADY! We are overstocked with kids now!

10 of me…good God, and heaven forbid..

Most of us can't afford to have large families now the cost of food, utilities, a house etc that's suited too big families is beyond most of our reachEdited 10-May-25 13:58pm

Even years ago having extra large families was a rarity nice movie cheaper by the dozen

A couple of kids will allow you and the kids to have comfortable life but many kids will eventually drain all of you

I came from a family of nine children. I have had only one and love her so much. My joy

I said Other. 45 years ago I wanted 6. I had 4 and that was more than enough with the abusive man I was married to. If I was doing it today I wouldn't have any. This world and its chaos is no place to bring a baby. This is just my opinion for myself so if you have little ones, please don't be mad at me.

Newborn to 1 year for me

Other . had 1 a year! ... two years in a row and and thankful for those. Basically I just think they come when they want to come!!

4pts One, two or three kids now is preferable. Adults can no longer spread their time with more nor usually do the families resources stretch to any more. I brought up 5 kids back in the 70's onwards. I missed out on so much of their growing up as the hours it took working to feed and clothe them with no other family help other than the father of 3 of themEdited 10-May-25 08:38am

Who can afford to raise 10 children nowadays???

Two is better than everything through I have 3 kids

I personally had two but my father had a huge heart and between two mothers he claims 11!

If they stayed newborn, I would have had 10 but since they do not I had 2, a boy and a girl. Lol

We have four adult children, we lost 3 babies as well. We wanted 8 but then I got endrometriosis and so we just had four 3 sons and a daughter. My daughters twin was stillborn and two others sons were stillborn. We have 13 living grandchildren and lost 4 grandsons, 3 stillborn and one at age 5 killed in a car accident. Now we have 10 great grandchildren and half our grandchildren are still minors or in early 20's and no children yet. I wish we could have had 4 more living children. As to big families people always find a way to make do and live and have a good life if especially if they have good support group of extended family and a church fellowship. A lot of people live way beyond their means and indulge in a lot of things that are not needs but luxuries and wants that we can all live without.

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Ended up with living children. Would had loved another one but became too dangerous to have more.

We live in a different world. I agree big families do have a lot of good points ... but not practical in today's world.

It's a commendable thing to have a large family, but the cost attached to nurturing many children is high therefore limiting the initiative. Moreso, with the economic outlook, many people are unable to healthily and happily raise 10 children.

The world is overpopulated already. People used to have lots of children because many of them did not survive childhood

I don't have any thought about it, apart from. Everyone is different so why compare. ALSO in this day and age unless you live in Asia, it not possible in the west.Edited 09-May-25 20:46pm

4 points

I wanted 6 children but only managed to have 3.

i'm one of four. I always wanted to have large family but that didn't happen no kids at all but have a lot of nieces and nephews Edited 09-May-25 19:52pm

4pts Too expensive, For 10 or more I've raised 4 children on my own and did my best

I love my large family of 6 kids

1 pff hardly worth commenting on... amt of kids or if you even want them, is a very personal choice.

Along came science and gave us pills that stopped us getting pregnant. We as an onward looking country all took these pills and now we can't apparently produce enough little workers so we started inviting the rest of the world to come and live with us. Sad to say many of these new people don't know that our Government does not want us to run around stabbing anyone who doesn't have the same religion and ideas as they do - more fun for the masses!

My pets give all the love without the drama or college funds! They fill my home with joy and fur. Different paths to happiness—mine just has more paws than footprints!

A boy and a girl is perfect and that is what had

Be greatful to what the lord gave you - i wasn't lucky to have kids so mine is my fur baby

had 4 but 5 or 6 would have been ok too

I have 4 kids, thats plenty for me.

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Personally I'm just not financially stable

2 points for Don't want kids at all. I am single, never married, no children, living alone, and at my stage of life it's too late to start now.

Had two kids and it was perfect. When they grew up and left home, I then got my fur baby who sadly passed away when she was 16 years old and it absolutely broke my heart.

In those days, infant and early childhood deaths were more common, plus Roman Catholocisim was more rampant promoting procreation, and farming and industrial families needed the labour coming forward to support their endeavours.

There isn't enough housing for the people who are here already

Madness is hereditary - you get if from your kids!

TWO IS COMPANY THREE IS A CROWD.

i was 1 of 6 and i have 1

We were a largish family, 6 children, of course in my Mum and Dad's day large families were expected if only because Contraception was Illegal, if Dad wanted Condoms he had to go at night, by special appointment to the only Pharmacy in our city who illegally imported them. Abortion was also Illegal that was the absurd strength of the Roman Catholic Church in our country. the Church simply did not care how often a woman got pregnant or if she died in childbirth because all the children were another Soul for Christ. The Church did not care if the husband was out of work and in those days as soon as a women got married she either gave up her work immediately or, with some more intelligent employers, she was allowed to keep her job until she was 3 months pregnant. Thankfully the Church has now become almost irrelevant to all but all those men in drag hiding in Vatican City.

The less you, the more you know them

We have three beautiful kids and seven grandkids. Just right.

1 Good grief back in my Grandmother & Great grandmother's time. Certainly not affordable now not say mention the wear & tear on your body.

2 deliveries is bad enough on the body, let alone 10! No frikken way ! 10 is excessive & irresponsible in my book, but hey, each to their own.. Some people might want more. No way in hell are all of those 10 getting individual attention. Most likely older kids are drafted into becoming pseudo parents. I would never encourage my kids either way - if they want kids - cool. If they don't, that's fine too. These days it's hard for young people to afford a property let alone kids. Most people need 2 incomes to survive & even now, the burden of childcare largely still falls to women, so they end up with 2 full time jobs. No thanks. I'd like my offspring to enjoy their life in whichever way they see fit. I was one of 6 ( 7 but one died at birth). I've never known anyone in my generation who had more than 6 but I'm sure there would be some.. My mum ( born 1928) was one of 10 & dad was one of 2 ( he was born in 1826).Edited 09-May-25 10:11am

I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH QUITE A FEW FAMILES THAT HAD 12/15/16 CHILDREN ONE FAMILY THERE WERE 2 SETS OF TWINS AND 2 SETS OF TRIPLETS I'M ONE OF 6 AND MY MUM MISCARRIED WITH THE 7TH SO THERE WAS NO MORE AFTER THAT I HAD A GREAT CHILDHOOD

I've got 5 and lost the 6th to miscarriage. I always wished I had at least one more.

i remember buying my mum a Mother's Day card, it read If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again from your second born, perhaps that's all it is

With 8 billion souls plundering earth today, I have a hard time understanding state support for IV pregnancy. Having more than 2 children hastens the demise of the planet.

How could one person ever have enough nourishment in their body to supplement 10 pregnancies….OMG…NOT THIS CHICKY!

It was NEVER NORMAL to have that many kids for normal people.

if we don't at least replace ourselves, the great unwashed who don't know when to stop will inherit a very ignorant earth

In the old days people had a lot of kids because must of them will die in the first few years and they wanted some to look after them in later life.

I think people had more kids back then because there was less education and birth control available! Both my parents have six siblings each and I was an only child . I ended up having two kids, but these days the expense is insanely unaffordable.. I always needed a two bedroom, because I have a girl and a boy, and I'd take the living room.. if I had of only had one child I would've only needed one bedroom.. so it really does make a big difference.. I didn't plan on ending up a single mother either so you never know what life will give you . The strange thing is I left their dad when they were 3and 5 months old, was a single struggling ass mom for 15 years, and now we're back living with their dad! Life is weirdEdited 09-May-25 08:08am

It was the norm. Whether through religious reasoning,you took all the children God sent. This was told to many family's at my school. I had friends with up to 13 siblings. There was a high chance their mother wouldn't survive the birth. The priest would council them and say it was God's will. With birth control ,more widely excepted women have more choice on regards to their body.

4 pt

Large families in the past often weren't really a choice as such, due to a lack of birth control options (as others have said), laws against abortions (both legal and religious beliefs), etc. Also, more children used to die from various health problems, so bigger families could ensure at least some survived. Plus in more rural areas, the bigger families meant more free help around the farm, etc. There are also other factors in the modern world, such the simple lack of space for all the houses, the huge expense, etc. ... imagine having to buy 10+ laptops / tablets for a pile of kids to use at school!

2 for 2

Years ago the only way to prevent pregnancy was abstaining, or being particularly careful and relying on a woman’s cycle. Nowadays we have choices, especially about birth control. Having children is the most important job you will ever have, so it pays to think about how you as a couple will manage, before deciding. I had two children!

Birth control was a big reason families are not so big

Kalergi Plan. Combined with the "depopulation" agenda...which simply means achieving, for the world on average, MORE people dying each day than are being born. The global elites want this by 2030, but, by their own data this is more likely to occur around 2050-2060. There are many tentacles to their agenda. Overuse of injections in kids, which has ramped up since the early 80s astronomically. The spraying of the skies with chemtrails. The OVERspraying of crops, so they become OVERsaturated with heavy metals toxins. The commercialization and normalization of "fast food" destroying people's health. I can go on and on...the ones in control have realized they NEED to eliminate us by not DIRECTLY eliminating us, so they use various different avenues of attack to slowly, but surely, degrade us every new generation that is born. One of the main things is systematic generational heaby metals toxin poisoning....with every new generation THAT MUCH MORE poisoned than the previous. So having so many kids isn't possible for many anymore...lots can't even get pregnant now with all the toxins out here. All part of the plan.

I have two kids only that's enough anymore you would be crazy especially if someone had to pay child support

I want to have a child but doctor said o can't have a child as I got pocs

Growing up I came from the smallest family of my closest friends, I was the youngest of three. My mother had several miscarriages between my second oldest sister and me. My best friends came from families of 6, 7, 9 and 10. I liked coming from a family of three kids,Edited 09-May-25 02:18am

They had so many because healthcare was poor and some would die. We don’t need to do that any more.

Large families are more rare today but work in different ways, e.g. more resourceful and simple living.

Never ever ever wanted 10! kids I have 2 and tried for 3 but that didn't happen. Have 2 grandchildren from one daughter and none from the other who never settled down with a partner - more career oriented.

One lovely little very active one was more than enough for me ,although the ideal is always 2 - 4 so you've got a decent chance of one of them marrying off and giving you grand kids or one of them looking after you when you're on your last legs !

I AM THE OLDEST OF 9 AND DAD OR FATHER OF 7

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never wanted a kid or kids - never had a kid or kids

had 2 but it wasn't for me to have more, would have been great...

My grandmother had 13 and her sister 18. There was little in the way of birth control. They were lucky, they survived. Myself, I had 3 and with each birth without medical intervention I would have died and my children along with me. The world has too many billions of people on it now and if everyone kept having these huge families, where would it be now. We cannot feed all there are, house all there are, give medical attention to all there are and wars break out due to this pressure.