Very large families are extremely unusual these days. Most folks have gotten used to their luxuries; they limit the number of kids they have so they don’t have to sacrifice too much of their good life for them.
Luxuries? Where in my post did I say that I didn't want to have kids because of luxuries? Kindly don't put words in my mouth, okay? Pretty arrogant of you to do that, I must say!
With the high taxes nowadays, often one income isn't enough to feed a husband and wife, much less a wholesale brood of children... even if they both want a large family.
No, it's not luxuries... sometimes, in today's job market, people can hardly take care of themselves.
I'm now too old to have kids, even if I had wanted to, but I got a 30% PAY CUT over a year ago. I've been the sole support of both of us, and my guy only recently started working again. We've been making do with the help of payday loans and some certain friends.
If I had had a whole litter of children to deal with on top of all I've been through in the last couple of years, I'd probably have eaten the barrel of my revolver, because the level of stress would have been even worse than it has been.
So... Mrs. High-and-Mighty, since you have NO knowledge of what anyone else's situation here is, you really have NO BUSINESS making pronouncements about how many LUXURIES I've had rather than having children. Believe me, there have not been very many LUXURIES under my roof... not lately, and not ever.
In my opinion, people who have dozens of kids without a clue of how to either take care of them, or have no idea of how they're even going to feed them (once weaned), have no business assuming that it's okay to live off the redistributed taxes of the rest of us, who are also struggling. In my opinion, they're being highly irresponsible.