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• Four Reasons Big Families Might Have it Better in This Economy

  If it costs more to feed a bigger family in good times, doesn't it stand to reason that it would cost more in lean times too? Yes, but it's possible bigger families are better prepared for hard times - because they're used to living on a stricter budget.  Talking with the Chicago Tribune, Don Demaree of the Center for Consumer Credit Counseling says some (not all, he's quick to add) of the larger families have cottoned on long ago to frugality - be it by buying in bulk or finding free entertainment for the family.  So what else do the big families have on those of us with just one or two kids?  Read More... Posted Feb 03 2009, 05:31 PM by JeanneSager with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: money, multiples, free, economy, frugality, big families, Jeanne Sager, saving, family finance, babysitter, small families, finance, economic downturn, cutting costs, buying in bulk

• Green Expert Says: Limit Kids to Two

  Have at least two kids? Planning on having more? A UK sustainable development expert says you should think twice about making any more babies – lest you want to see the world a blacker place. The way Jonathon Porritt sees it, anyone with more than two kids is  "irresponsible" about the way they're affecting the environment. Read More... Posted Feb 03 2009, 03:27 PM by JeanneSager with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: China, united kingdom, Large families, environment, UK, green, big families, Jeanne Sager, population control, small families, limiting children, eugenics, two kids, sustainable development

• Momma Duggar Pops Out Her 18th Child!

  They did it! The Duggars actually managed to think of an 18th name that starts with the letter J!  Oh and while they were at it... Read More... Posted Dec 18 2008, 11:51 PM by SunnyChanel with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: big families, births, duggars

• Mega-Families Aren't Just for Crazy Americans

  Seems the Duggars, that RV-driving Christian family with 17+kids, aren't the only ones who can't -- and won't -- stop having babies. Enter, the Watsons and their mother of 13 who is, again, pregnant. What's interesting to note is that the Watsons aren't American. They're British. I guess the U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on extreme family (non-)planning. The Watsons children range in age from ... Read More... Posted Jul 23 2008, 04:34 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: U.K., Daily Telegraph, big families, the mcdonnells, supersized families, mormons, the watsons, mega families

• Is Child No. 3 a Luxury Good?

  If there's one person who has made the child/commerce connection, it's Pamela Paul. She's the author of Parenting, Inc. and Babble contributor with a dispatch this week that, and perhaps I'm speaking only for myself here, reassured those of us parents who never managed to follow through on the baby sign language classes, thereby condemning our children to low IQs and drool. Well, she's digging in deeper to the idea of kids and cost in a recent Washington Post essay, where she's talking about the status of the third child, particularly for those raising their families in expensive cities. Apparently, Baby No. 3 is something of a luxury good.  Read More... Posted Apr 09 2008, 03:31 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, family size, Pamela Paul, big families, third child, three kids, middle class families, Inc., poor, rich