[Resettozero]

Sarah Palin not worth mentioning on FR?

[Cicero]

St. Catherine of Sienna, who among other things persuaded the Pope to return to Rome from exile in Avignon, was the 24th of 25 children.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The “Quiver Full” movement has the right idea, and other Christian sects need to adopt a similar outlook on life.

This almost has to be done in Christian communities, because the culture at large uses any number of means to discourage more than a minimum number of children.

Every expectation and demand puts pressure on potential parents to limit their number of children. Often this amounts to materialistic demands, that children must have this and that and the other, or they are being “deprived.”

Only in a mutually supporting community, where the focus is away from materialism, is the pressure lifted.

[freedumb2003]

Frankly, this is a non-argument.

How about the 11th kid that was never born to a 10 child family? The one that would have found the cure for all forms of Cancer?

Or the 12th, who would have discovered Warp Drive?

There are an infinite number of children with an infinite number of possible lives for all married couples.

Or suffice it to say, I have never understood this particular argument for fecundity.

[PapaBear3625]

I have no problem with couples having as many children as they want, and which they can raise without government welfare payments. Our society would be much improved if more middle-class/wealthy couples had more kids.

I have lots of problems with woman having kids which they then expect me to pay for with my tax dollars.

[Billthedrill]

It has always been my considered opinion that children after the first are extraneous.

Strangely, my younger brothers and sisters do not agree. ;-)

[jmcenanly]

Of course, Ben Franklin, and presumably his siblings and contemporaries,left home at an early age.

[DoodleDawg]

The world would have missed out on me (third of three).

[Celtic Conservative]

Harvey Wiley had some positive accomplishments, but in the twilight of career went after the Coca Cola company because he believed in the dangerousness of its ingredients. No, not cocaine (which had been gone for a while) but caffeine! Never mind that your average cup of coffee or tea had more caffeine than a bottle of “coke”. The trial put on by the government was a 3 ring circus which Wiley eventually lost. If you were to look at the Coca Cola case alone what We would’ve called Wiley in modern terms would be a “nanny state busybody”.

CC

[Slings and Arrows]

Add at least five of J. S. Bach’s many children, composers Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Philipp Emanuel Bach, and musicians Gottfried Heinrich Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, and Johann Christian Bach.