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[quote=Anonymous]I just want to note that a family with 6 biological kids (assuming no twins) means their mother has spent approximately 5 years pregnant, 6 childbirths, 6 postpartum recoveries. If she breastfed, she may have essentially done it continuously for like 10 years, or even just doing it off and on for 10 years (or more!). I'm sure she doesn't work, but if she did and took a maternity leave, she'd have taken somewhere between 9 months and 3 years off from her career in intervals. If she has any physical challenges related to her pregnancies, she may deal with either chronic pain, physical limitations, or have had to pursue years of PT or other medical attention to heal from those.

I'm sure this particular woman has no issue with any of that, perhaps even loves it. Some women really do love being pregnant and some women's bodies handle pregnancy very easily. Some women would rather be home caring for kids than in a career, and I don't think there is anything wrong with that at all if they can find a way to work that out -- birthing and raising children is important, meaningful work that is often taken for granted.

But to advocate for more people to have 4 or more kids without once acknowledging the literal labor that *someone else* went through, and continues to go through, to allow you to have the large family of your dreams, is grotesque. Not one word to note the sacrifice of FIVE YEARS of pregnancy, even if undertaken joyfully?

What a joke. I predict that at least 30 percent of this man's kids will absolutely hate him when they are adults, and I think that's a low estimate.[/quote]

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