My grandfather is 91, and we were talking about his family when he was a kid. This picture is how many siblings he had.
His father would come home every ten months and then leave a few days later.
Also, there is something deeply wrong with the girl behind the dad. Her knee should not be there based on what we can see of her shoulders. Their politics apparently involve having hellishly mutated children with their six fingered, yellow handed wife.
Perhaps this is why you don't make children with your sister, who is also your aunt? The kid behind him, she is like a snake but the baby on the dads lap has no legs.
You thought it was AI, but she just has ulnar polydactyly. How do I know this is ulnar instead of radial or central polydactyly? The wedding ring, it's on the ring finger.
(/s of course, this is obviously AI. But yeah people with extra fingers do in fact exist. They or the parents often cut away the extra finger for cosmetic reasons.)
He wants a baby making machine who is capable of dressing nicely and putting on makeup despite being heavily pregnant on top of taking care of 6 children all of whom are in the baby and toddler phase?
frankly it's difficult to be good parents with one child, humans are not meant to raise even a single kid with only 2 parents. We're meant to have communities that share the load of raising all the children, we're not birds for christ's sake.
At some point, the older kids are providing child care for the younger ones. But also, its very "infinite economic growth thanks to our ever-expanding frontier" understanding of the family dynamic. As soon as all your neighbors start to copy you, and families start bumping up against one another in their effort to cannibalize the surrounding wilderness, you get conflict. Expand far enough, and the conflicts become things of history - even of legend. The War of the Roses. The French and Indian Wars. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The Gaza Genocide.
This is a family style game of The Tragedy of the Commons.
I went to high school with a girl who was I think #6 of 12. And yeah she was raised by siblings and raised siblings herself. It was actually somewhat similar to what my girlfriend experienced having a deadbeat mom and imprisoned dad.
"What sort of minimum wage would we need so an honest blue collar working man can take care of a family of ten and restore our society to the good ol days? Oh...ok.. well let's just ignore that part."
but also ironically the stereotypical american dream was only feasible for a short time thanks to the work of unions, which would be decried as horrible communists in modern america, and frankly the whole concept has a lot of socialist undertones in general which people love to ignore.
It was thanks to strong union movements that people had such wealth, ever since the unions got beaten into a pulp workers have been paid less and less and at this point the idea of one dude supporting a spouse and 3 kids is fucking hilarious.
I literally know hundreds of families with more kids than that and a spouse without any income, and I'm one of them. These are construction workers, small business owners (trades), union electricians and the like, engineers, accountants, etc. They live in modest homes in outer suburbs or rural areas. They/I live pretty frugally of course, but saying it's impossible or "hilarious" is simply wrong. I don't know what to tell you, except that its just not true.
Why are all kids blonde? I'm just saying maybe this guy married this poor single lady with a little league project or maybe this is one of those oliver twist situations.
White kids are often blonde even if they won't be as adults. All mine were at least for awhile, all have medium or dark brown hair now. All born with blue eyes too, but half changed to brown later. Not sure why, but it's normal.
The man will work 12 hour days at some menial job and the wife will spend all day trapped with kids. Probably get divorced at some point because they find out the stress of everything has sucked the romance out of their marriage. The oldest won't talk to one of the parents and the youngest will think it's their fault.
This worked back in the old times because at least 2 or so of those kids would die from disease or war. There was cheapish land to go around to be on a farm or have some business. You probably had at least a three bedroom house and it allowed for some privacy. Also, families might help out each other so there could be some support.
It's a load of shit to think this will happen the way you want. If this did happen, it would probably be some commune that is labelled as a capitalistic paradise and where every one should be. In reality, it would be forced communism with extra steps and new branding. Think company towns mixed with Handmaid's Tale-type woman subjugation. Oh, the freedom is so bright that it burns.
Oh, but it isn't a fetish! It's the command of God! They have to push out as many children as possible, because the Creator wishes for us to cover every inch of this planet, and they need a holy army to fight the demons Satan sends against us! And the women need to be pretty and subservient because Gods a man and He loves the good, pretty ladies.
(I have heard this bullshit so many fucking times, with so many reasons why this is their gods plan.)
Serving the will of The Lord! Which just so happens to be the will of the male head of the house. One and the same.
Stockholm Syndrome and they don't even know it.
"Well that does NOT look like a coincidence to me! God doesn't make mistakes!": most evangelicals, with their leave-brain-at-door-and-pick-up-your-crayons medieval "logic".
I have a large family, always wanted kids, but seriously do not understand people who need everyone else to do the same thing they do. Like, what the actual fuck? If someone doesn't want kids how is that my business? It's like they don't have confidence in themselves and need the whole world to agree with them. Just live your life, it doesn't matter what everyone else is doing.
That picture doesn't make sense though, unless she had 3 sets of twins some of those kids would be older, and as the billboards here used to say "two years apart is baby smart", it is easier on your body if you give yourself time to recover. Three sets of twins back to back, your womb would prolapse.
Definitely. It seems to be a fairly common style recently in my area. I'm a mostly-straight woman, but I like it. I've definitely found myself attracted to the occasional lesbian.
Perfect example of how many if not most right-wing voters don't give a shit about policy. It's an aesthetic more than anything else. Flags and guns and football and church and big ol' southern nuclear families. Get them to associate literally anything with that vibe and you'll have 30% of voters in this country behind it.
Kid on the bottom right has a backwards hand; thumb on the wrong side. Also a ridiculously long arm. Kid on Dad's lap is a Kuato growing out of his leg.