TIL about this list.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls524521394/
Mia Farrow with 14 kids. (Impressive!)
And DMX with 17 kids.
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2024
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You can't be a good dad or mom with 12 kids I don't care what anyone says
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.
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.
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.
Which is called parentification and usually seen as a form of child abuse.
It is rampant in China
It sounds like some kind of ponzi scheme on the fabric of society