Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Demise of the Big Family

The NY Times has an interesting article about larger families becoming more and more rare these days. Of note:
"...in 1976, census data show, 59 percent of women ages 40 to 44 had three or more children, 20 percent had five or more and 6 percent had seven or more.

By 2006, four decades after the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to use birth control (and the last year available from census studies), 28 percent of women ages 40 to 44 had three or more children, 4 percent had five or more and just 0.5 percent had seven or more.”

Recently when my wife was out at the store with our four kids a well-meaning lady remarked to her, "Oh, you must run a day care." Uh...no.

Seems like Christians and Muslims are the only ones having kids these days!


(HT: Erik)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Add to that Catholics (the more traditional ones) and Mormons. Of course, the former are, albeit having largely "another" (synergistic justification) Gospel, in the Christian community of faith. Wheras the LDS religion ... not so much.

Dan S. said...

Mitt Romney should still be president though.

Anonymous said...

so what?

John said...

unfortunately, big families are looked down upon even in many churches