Quote Originally Posted by ILoveReptiles
When someone has THAT many children, it's fairly obvious to me that they don't consider them even human - just objects. Tools to get them more money from the welfare system. Trophies if you will. I've seen it all before, and it sickens me.
Wait - does that mean you don't think people with a lot of pets consider each one as special and worthy either?

Most teachers have to contend with more than 16 students every day, all at once, yet we entrust to them the care of future generations ...

Large families were more common in prior generations, my grandmother was second-eldest in a family of eight children. Each of the eldest (the first four were girls) was kind of assigned a younger sibling to care for - my grandmother's "responsibility" was the youngest girl, Bertha. Mind you, Bertha said she usually was called "Edith-Ethel-Elizabeth-Florence-BERTHA!" but she knew her name anyway. When my grandmother died (when I was an infant), Bertha and my mother became closer friends, so the "connection" kind of continues to this day.