#children who don't fall in are often ostracized to some degree

[redrockbutch]

Conservatives moping about the loss of things that absolutely still exist will always be funny, but "people were much happier when they had big families and no birth control" is possibly one of the funniest takes I've ever heard Okay well I've known lots of big families (8+, incl a 14+ family) and they tend to be either extremely unpleasantly regimented or absolute chaos, the children rarely have anything like we would consider a close relationship with their parents (with the older siblings often taking on a more parental role than usual), medical neglect is not uncommon due to how many of them are religious fundamentalists, and many of the kids have permanent problems with authority due to quite understandably not liking absolute respect demanded by an adult they see for 1 hour a day at dinnertime Ironically, I think one of the main issues they face is that a big family is often idealized as one that must be loving, as opposed to one that quite possibly exists because the parents are trying to build a little kingdom with them as the unquestioning, unchanging head