I think this is from the 90’s, but this Harry Enfield skit pretty much sums up the situation in England (and here too):
Harry Enfield and chums (I want a Brown baby)
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/8046177/Harry_Enfield_and_chums_The_slobs_Brown_baby_Wayne_Waynetta_in_The_ten_year_itch
In the Western World, kids are not valued. Large families are treated as objects of curiosity at best, scorn at worst.
And we wonder why we have so many problems.