We Should Slap People Who Talk Like That
We need more people willing to have many children, not fewer.
Welcome back to Good Life, a newsletter about navigating our modern culture and staying sane in the process. This week, I go on a little rant about big families and how the demonization of their situation has to end.
We Should Slap People Who Talk Like That
I’ve been mulling over this newsletter for a couple of weeks now, ever since I saw some people online claiming how terrible big families are because of the pressure that is placed on the oldest daughter.
A man and a woman were going back and forth, agreeing with each other over their belief that parents of big families use their children like unpaid workers just to shirk their parental responsibilities. One of them claimed that the eldest daughter takes the brunt of this supposed pain.
It wasn’t lost on me that neither seemed to be from a big family. And I think it was their ignorance that made me so angry while reading their conversation. They completely miss the point of why big families function that way and how it typically sends their children into the world better prepared for life than their peers.