The Real Reason for Large Families

Many people believe that large families were a tradition in the past because the more kids you had, the greater chances that one of them would be successful and take good care of you in your old age.  But there were other compelling reasons for a large family tradition, too. The bedrock basic one is that men who marry, tend to do so because they want somebody to have sex with on a repeated and regular basis. Marriage gives men a sense of entitlement.  Having sex frequently prior to vasectomies, tubal litigations and the birth control pill, resulted in a whole lot of kids. Wives were afraid to say no to sex because men might leave them for somebody else. The more kids you had, the less likely he would be to abandon you for someone else and start a new family.