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(that explains the creepy dresses)

Nothing like treating your kids as individuals.

I come from a long line of large families as well. I would imagine pretty well everybody did. Way back when, though, lots of children didn't survive infancy so what you wound up with wasn't what you'd actually had.

I have a great-great grandfather who had 25 children by two wives. 21 lived to adulthood. But he was a farmer with a huge swath of land in southern Minnesota, so I can excuse him. My great-great grandmother died in childbirth. I think five of eight of her kids survived. The other 17 kids were by his second wife.

Remember what Frank Gilbreth said, "they're cheaper by the dozen".