so much knowledge has been lost.
Big families are actually more cost-effective. Once you have all the basics like cribs and such, you can simply reuse them from child to child. You keep good clothes and hand them down to the next youngest. Plus as they age you have built in baby sitters for the younger ones by the older ones, so you don’t need daycare.
So much is positive about large families.
When times are hard—Big families are logical. More hands to keep things going—even if they must wear rags. What is the old saying? “The Rich get Rich and the poor get children.” The Rich, do not have a lot of kids—they die out. There are rewards to family life that can not be found in other places.
Law and Order: CRIB (Crib Recycling Investigation Branch) sounds funny until youre the bad guy in an episode.
You would think that reusing a crib is wise but that is what started CPS poking around in my little brothers home because a crib that was newly manufactured and deemed safe a couple of years previous was no longer determined to be safe and things only got more stupid from there.