I tend to avoid discussions about it because some people I know are very sensitive about having both parents work full-time when they obviously don’t really need to; the money they spend on cruises, adult toys and the like would more than have allowed for more children. Instead they have strangers raise their children, and are VERY hostile whenever the topic is brought up (even if it is between other people and didn’t involve them in any way).
I must admit a lot of times it isn’t much fun, but I really couldn’t imagine it any other way. If I didn’t intend to have children I certainly wouldn’t have married; then I’d just be dog-sitting for my wife!
I didn’t expect to have all these children - it just kind of snuck up on us. But at some point, I started asking myself, “What else were you going to do that’s this worthwhile?” Plus I make leftists’ heads explode just by existing.
I don’t know if you’re a fan of Westerns, but I see myself as “Ma Sackett” or “Katie Elder,” that harmless old Bible-reading lady who produced her own private army ;-).