The welfare state only increases the number of people who think like the woman in your story, Mrs. Don-o. I don't recall hearing many complaints about large families growing up. I do now.
I understand people are upset by single moms whose children have multiple fathers, and the mother and children are supported on welfare. But not when the parents are married, the children have the same father and the family is self sufficient. It's too bad people immediately assume they must be getting government assistance.
Thank you for yours, TAdams.
My mother just rolls her eyes at me (by email, these days), but she did say once that she didn’t realize how much good I was doing until many of her friends or guests mentioned that, having two, three, or even four children of their own, they didn’t have any grandchildren!
I know my aunt and uncle were about to despair before one of my (three) cousins finally had a child, not long before Frank was born. And they were born Catholic, too, not wandering in through the dimensional gullet. (That’s from another thread ...)
Tom plans to make sushi. He might have tried it tonight, but he forget to get the seaweed at the Asian grocery store, so it will have to wait until he gets back from his weekend campout. He can practice with the rice, first, anyway. A useful ambition, imo ... and the Asian grocery will sell him a live fish out of the tank, once he’s mastered some techniques using “krab.”