[JenB]

Yeah, I suppose we two are probably oversensitive... but honestly, it was my parents' choice to have a big family, and nobody has any right to criticize that choice. We were never on welfare, either, which is something half the "anti-family" folks seem to think.

And there were a lot of people, when I was growing up, who thought that because there were 'so many of us' that it didn't matter if they called me by a sister's name, or a brother by the wrong name, either. And that hurt.

[PurpleQ]

And that IS wonderful that your parent made the choice to have a big family. But my Mom can't see and many others can't see that it IS MY CHOICE to only have one. The same way you feel hurt by people who think it is crazy to have a big family, I feel hurt by ones who think I should have more. They do not acknowledge it is MY body not theirs.