I don't equate having a large family with parents who have no means to adequately care for their children. Kids don't have to have everything that comes down the pike and some, I'm sure, are spoiled rotten.
Aside from that, we do want our children to "fit in" in some measure with their peers. It can be tough for many parents.
Designer jeans, the latest smart phone, Ivy League school, a high school graduation trip to Florida, etc. They really don't NEED any one of those things---they need to be taught a value system early on, including becoming educated. One of my cousins had 18 living children (two others died at birth). Other than two I've heard of who have had some problems, they've all done just fine. Were they wealthy? No! But they did their job.
I still believe those who can't support a child are morally responsible not to bring a baby into the world.
I'm not debating that…
I don't equate having a large family with parents who have no means to adequately care for their children.
You might not, but can you say that the government will not? Moreover, once they start defining "adequate care" they can set it so that there is nothing that is, realistically speaking, adequate. — It could be in this way that children become the property/wards of the state… this is something that the Statists desperately wants, it is why they dislike homeschooling.