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I doubt that the girls will go to college. More than likely their goals will be to be just like their mother. Mothers and housewives, who are integral parts of their husbands success.

I also imagine that each and everyone of these girls will have lines of guys waiting for them when they get old enough to court.

With the work ethic of this family, I imagine that any of the kids that go on to college will work there way through school.

And with the popularity that this family has, I'm sure there will be a few philanthropists out there to invest in the lives of some hard working, well valued, young people.

I doubt that the girls will go to college. More than likely their goals will be to be just like their mother. Mothers and housewives, who are integral parts of their husbands success.

I thought the exact same thing. The girls will be taught to keep themselves pure for their husbands and anyone is crazy to think men don't go for that.

Also they have seen the way their house runs and understand it's up to the men/husband to aspire to and pursue the careers that interest them and be the breadwinner and for the girls to aspire to support their husband as housewives.

If their money is limited they will see it's frivolous to educate the girls whose job they can learn from their mother and invest in the boy's futures since they will be heading households.

I doubt that the girls will go to college. More than likely their goals will be to be just like their mother. Mothers and housewives, who are integral parts of their husbands success.

Maybe, maybe not. I'm the oldest of seven and I saw a lot of big families growing up. Most, like you say, raised daughters who wanted or... didn't think of, at least, anything else. Two or three of us did go to college. I'm a computer scientist now and my sisters are both in college, I knew an oldest-of-eight who went to college for nursing. But there was the oldest-of-six who learned hairdressing, the girl with six younger brothers who was married at 18....

It's one reason I don't want an extra-large family myself, besides the fact that I don't like the regimentation that's required for anything beyond eight or nine. And I don't care to drive full sized vans.

This sort of lifestyle does seem to be hard on the oldest couple kids. They get tasked with surrogate-parent chores and responsibility for younger siblings that yes, can be valuable but sometimes just gets old. I wouldn't have traded any of my siblings for anything, but my dad was a computer scientist, we rarely worried about eating and we always had new shoes when we needed them. I'm not sure what I'd think if it had been otherwise.