The “Quiver Full” movement has the right idea, and other Christian sects need to adopt a similar outlook on life.
This almost has to be done in Christian communities, because the culture at large uses any number of means to discourage more than a minimum number of children.
Every expectation and demand puts pressure on potential parents to limit their number of children. Often this amounts to materialistic demands, that children must have this and that and the other, or they are being “deprived.”
Only in a mutually supporting community, where the focus is away from materialism, is the pressure lifted.
Not just materialistic, but individualistically proud. We shouldn’t turn this into a kind of reverse moralism where we robotically shame those with few or no children, or even go celibate (we can’t always know why). But humans were put here for God’s loving glory and if the love capacity is there for many children, it is only right by God to follow suit.
Well said.