I live in FL and my friends are all part of a homeschooling group.
We have always had a lot of kids while regular Americans don’t. Almost all of them have at least three, and we have a lot of large families, ten or thirteen or more.
However, this depression is destroying people. So many people in the group have lost their homes, can’t pay for their school supplies and such.
I spoke to a good, godly woman the other day who has all her family living in one room. She works at publix, part time - can’t find anything else. Now you know, even if she wants more children, it just can’t happen.
Your comments remind me of something my grandmother, born in 1903, told me when I was a young mother. She said that when she was young, people “were just getting started if they had ‘only’ four children.” She was from a family of nine children, which was absolutely typical in those days. My other grandmother was also from a family of at least nine kids. It’s amazing (but actually quite predictable, I guess) how the mixture of birth control and a bad economy has totally changed the construct of the American family.
However, I was one of six. I had four, and my siblings have four to six children each. It’s been a miracle and it probably would never work out on paper, but somehow all my siblings’children thrived; most were homeschooled, and ALL are a blessing to others. They’re lawyers, doctors, and in other “helping” professions.