Families with more than 10 children are becoming the norm among traditionalist US Christians

I once met the McDonald family and have known about them in a round-about way for over 12 years. They are a very nice bunch of people.

If I could have picked a father other than my own wonderful Daddy, James McDonald would have been one of the very top names on my list!

Very interesting! I had not read of this group of Christians. I wish them well.

My parents both came from large families, and I grew up with a mass of aunts, uncles, great-aunts and great-uncles, cousins, second cousins and even third cousins.

Life was one big, fun family reunion when I was a child.

So many of them are gone now, leaving the world a less friendly and less congenial place.

My brother and I were always a little resentful that we did not have a house full of siblings to play with.

Flowers to you for bringing this up, and stars and a bump for the thread.

The duggars ascribe to this, but TLC never mentions it. The children are well behaved, yes, but they are indoctrinated from birth, and not exposed to any other ways if thinking but their own. The eldest has just gone to DC to work with that hate group, focus on the family. Nice on the outside, yet think they are building gods army, literally, and do everything in their power to make sure those who they don't agree with are squashed politically.

And to expand, those they don't agree with is everyone who isn't part of quiverfull. No better than any other cult,

I wish I would have had more children, but I am grateful for the 3 I have. I love being a Mom, and being a Grandma is the icing on the cake !!!

The replies here remind me of the first lines of Anna Karenina :

'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'

If you come from or know of a large, happy family, you think that a large family is a great idea, or at least a model for what can be possible.

If you come from an unhappy situation, you automatically become a naysayer predicting multiple "problems" with such families.

Good. Let the godless heathen-atheist abortioners pay the bills for them.

I think it's wonderful. Wish I had had 10 children. I totally would have done it too.

Sound like little activists on the left, except for the well behaved part.

People like that intern at that hate group Southern Law Povery Center.