This is not "oneupmanship" Spud but my grandmother raised 15 children, my mother 11, yes a different generation but as I said, they just got on with it.
Life was a damn sight harder then so what has created today's world where people want the best of both worlds?
It's definitely not poverty as I knew it.
We debate here "pro-life", "pro-choice", abortion as it is part of our psyche today. Are we that overcrowded that this debacle has become the 'normal' way of life?