Quote Originally Posted by Den Anne Pen

To each there own but the older one's miss out because there raising the younger ones.

Miss out on what? I know I can only go on the few families I've known, and, not on this particular family because I don't know the details of their situation...but, the older kids in the large families I knew moved out of the home almost right out of either high school or finishing home schooling and straight into dorms for college. They were usually no older than 18, they didn't miss out on much that was legal, anyway. Yeah, they did help a lot with the home and the family, but, they still had social lives (mostly church related, but, they did go to dances and out with kids of the same and opposite sexes). If the publicly schooled ones wanted to participate in extracurricular activities, they could. The only things I can think of that they missed out on were the things that they shouldn't have been involved with in the first place!