My husband and I have seven kids together. We've been married 30 years and they're all mine and all his (no half siblings or step siblings, etc.) We have been faithful to each other, no drugs, no issues with alcohol or gambling or whatever vices people can have. We have always been homeowners, taxpayers, and we created and still have a successful business (although nowadays things with it aren't great- our goal now is just to survive until better times.) All this to say that we weren't what society might consider "bad"- except for having aLL ThOsE kIdS.

People think it's fine to ridicule you in public if you have a bunch of kids and aren't in some kind of religious group like the Amish. We are just regular Christians and we heard some of the absolute ugliest things AT CHURCH from other Christians. Because we had seven kids. My own family was embarrassed of us because we had so many kids, so much so that my Grandmother wouldn't tell her friends how many kids we had. Again- we were successful in every other aspect of our lives. We never had any kind of assistance or had to ask for people to help us support our kids. As a mom I was always careful that everyone was well groomed with nice clothing, etc. We haven't always been super well off but we always took care of ourselves. I was always a stay at home mom, even before the business took off. We gardened, we canned, we raised livestock for meat and milk and eggs, we homeschooled, we did not vax after the first child, and WE. WERE. HAPPY.

The Bible literally calls kids a blessing. Right now we struggle a bit with some of our grown kids (mainly I think due to their ages- early 20s- and the general lack of hope that generation feels right now. I'm believing for better times and restored relationships in the future.) I do not regret my big family and I'm glad to see that someone is calling for larger families like this to become more normalized again.