So Many Kids

[lankeela]

Why is it so many of the families interviewed re problems home schooling have to many kids? Most of them seem to have four or five or more - why do people have so many kids?

[royfromaus]

They like kids?

[lankeela]

Their choice to have so many, why then moan when they can't manage to look after them?

[barry1010]

Why not?

[jackthehat]

Perhaps they didn't realise that they would be expected to home-school them a few years hence?

[douglas9401]

Not got the gumption to find another hobby?

[Sqad]

Intercourse is now a recreational activity with the consequences mopped up by the state or family.
Being pregnant out of wedlock is no big deal as isn't being labelled a ***. This state of affairs is accentuated by drugs and alcohol.
There were less incidental pregnancies without contraception e,g 50's and 60,s than there are now, when contraception is readily available.
That's enough for the moment.

[royfromaus]

I stopped having kids and started buying tv's and stereos.

[Paigntonian]

It is irresponsible to have lots of kids when you don't have the income to look after them properly. Simple.

[Spicerack]

too many.

Nail-Head, Jack.

[pastafreak]

I've only seen a few interviews...none had loads of children.
But, as JTH said, maybe they never expected to need to homeschool.
I only had only one child, and I'm not sure I would have managed as I'd not have the patience.
Home schooling by choice is different than having it forced on you.

[ichkeria]

Indeed

[Theland]

We had six kids, and like royfamous it stopped when we got a telly.

[sherrardk]

(Sherrardk subscribes to thread so she has something ‘to look forward’ to when she gets in from work.)

[Sqad]

So,is one assuming that if forced schooling was an identifiable situation for the future, it would act as a deterrent or method of contraception?

I doubt it very much.

[Spicerack]

It's surprising how accurate that 'so' rule is.

[Theland]

Thank goodness for all of the booze and drugs that helped us cope!
''Ooooooooh me mental elf!''

[emmie]

the stats don't seem to bear this out, average family seems to be parents and two children.

[Bazile]

Why the suprise .

It was common in my parents generation for couples to have large families - five six kids was normal

[New Judge]

//Why not?//

Because far and away the biggest problem facing mankind is over-population. The problems it will present (and already presents in many parts) will seem a walk in the park compared to climate change.

It is even a problem in the UK (where average family size is, I believe, less than two). We constantly hear of shortages of this and that. There are not shortages; there are too many people.

If the UK has small families on average why should we bother worrying? Well we worry about the UK's contribution towards "emissions" when our contributions are unarguably adjacent to four-fifths of five-eights of sod all. But still we're urged to turn off all the lights. As well as that, the people with large families seem, almost invariably, to expect the rest of us to keep them.

That's why not.

[ToraToraTora]

In a lot of cases it's a career move. The more saucepans you have the more free dosh you get to spend on fags and white lightening, new Iphone, latest plasma TV, nightly takeaway, tough stickers and waccy baccy. Then you can get yet more free money when the kids are starving because you spent all the dosh on the above. The most amazing thing is that there is an army of public sector LibFacs that encourage and support it.