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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The shift was caused by the number of children.  When families typically had 3-4 or 6 or 8 kids, they were valuable collectively but less individually.  Now families have 1 or 2 kids and each is very valuable, and therefore receives a larger parental investment of time, money, and other resources.[/quote]

Kids were less valuable individually?  That’s incredibly stupid thinking.

Parents may have had less time for each kid individually, but they didn’t value them less. [/quote]

I know a few families with a large # of kids (Catholics) and the youngest kids were definitely NOT valued.

BIRTH CONTROL gave families the means to have fewer kids and value them more.

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I actually think this is true. Every single person I've ever met from very large families (like 6 or more) said that older siblings were expected to raise the younger ones and everyone involved hated it.[/quote]

Exactly.

The older kids raised the younger kids. Older kids resented it and the younger kids resented not knowing their parents well at all.

Parents only had that many kids because they didn’t use birth control. They didn’t plan that many kids. Or even want the last few (one kid was given away). This is true in for the 3 very large Catholic families I know (8+ kids). 
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