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@GraduatedBen @grok what can be done to get these lights back

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@DubzyOnceAgain They are LLCs

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@RaminNasibov @elonmusk Book worm

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@uncledoomer Im 27 and just had our second 4 months ago. We are White Southern Christians, so that makes sense, but our friends are all wanting some/pregnant

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@SIGMAPROFESSOR Hebrews 12:1

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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@AlexNoonan6 First at 25. Second at 26. Let the mogging commence

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If you’re fully invested in it, a large family is a blessing: to your children, to your household, and to society. Not everyone can have this kind of family, and not everyone should. I’ve written elsewhere about the real challenges of large families, including the ways they can become perilous if they’re poorly ordered or half-heartedly embraced. I still believe all of that, despite the pushback I get from thin-skinned idealists.

Still, I want to walk through a few of the benefits that consistently come with having a large family. For the sake of clarity, I’m defining “large” as four or more children. I write this as someone still in the thick of it. I have one son who will turn two in a couple of months, another son who got married two weeks ago, and six in between. This life is exhausting and demanding, but it is also satisfying. And it’s worth telling the truth about the good that comes with it.

What Big Families Do to Children…

A daily social-skills laboratory

Children with siblings live inside a constant negotiation. Who gets the seat. Who touched whose stuff. Who’s lying. Who’s sulking. Who needs to apologize. They learn, whether they want to or not, how to read moods, repair conflict, wait their turn, and restrain themselves. Large datasets back this up: teachers consistently rate children with siblings higher in self-control and interpersonal skills than only children. Lots of siblings provides lots of practice. Reps matter.

Character is formed through ordinary friction

Large families are loud. Disappointing. Inconvenient. Someone is always in your way. Someone always got the bigger piece. Someone ate your snacks you hid deep in the back of the cabinet.

This provides a lot of training. Kids learn to absorb frustration without melting down because they have to. By contrast, children raised in quieter, highly managed environments often reach adulthood with very little tolerance for inconvenience or conflict. When life presses in, they spiral because they’ve never been pressed before.

Entitlement is hard to sustain when attention is shared

It’s difficult to believe the world revolves around you when it demonstrably doesn’t. In a large family, attention is finite. Resources are finite. Schedules are negotiated, not curated.
Only children can learn humility. Of course they can. But in a large family, the lesson is unavoidable and relentless. Reality teaches it daily, without asking permission.

What Big Families Do to Households Over Time…

A thicker lifelong support network

When sibling relationships are healthy, they tend to stay that way. The research shows lower loneliness and stronger relational stability well into adulthood. This isn’t automatic, you have to cultivate it, but the upside lasts decades when you do.

The burden of aging parents is shared, not dumped

Only children are far more likely to face eldercare alone: emotionally, financially, logistically. That’s hard. Large families don’t eliminate that burden, but they divide it. Decisions are shared. Crises are absorbed by more than one set of shoulders.

That matters more than people realize, and it matters more every year we live longer.

Stress rises early; meaning rises later

The early years of a large family are demanding. No one disputes that. But over time, something interesting happens. Longitudinal studies and lived experience converge here: parents in larger families often report higher life satisfaction later on.

Stress peaks early. Meaning compounds. People confuse the two and assume the first cancels out the second. It doesn’t.

I’ve never been this happy before. Watching my kids launch into adulthood is thrilling and satisfying.

What Big Families Do to Society…

Large families transmit culture because they have mass

Traditions stick when there are enough people to carry them. Stories survive when more than one child remembers them. Faith, memory, and shared identity don’t disappear the moment someone opts out.

Sociologically speaking, large families behave and perform more like institutions. And institutions, unlike individuals, can endure. Think of the analogy where you break a stick and then show how hard it is to break a bunch of sticks bound together.

Demographic stability is not optional

Societies with sustained low fertility don’t drift gently into decline. They hit predictable walls: labor shortages, care crises, pension collapse, cultural fragmentation. All that is happening to us right now.

Large families, when tended well, are a public stabilizer. You don’t need everyone to have six kids. But when no one does, the bill comes due. And when it comes due, it’s ugly.

I know I’ve left many benefits out, and a lot more could be said about each point. That’s fine. This wasn’t meant to be exhaustive. That’s what the comments are for.

And for those interested, here’s the two-part piece I wrote on The Perils of Large Families:

Part 1:

https://t.co/9iW3skfKWi

Part 2:

https://t.co/maVuzuEfNx

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@TheNorfolkLion @ErwanLeCorre @Keir_Starmer @realDonaldTrump you could save Britain just from suggesting the US take it. They will be cornered into choosing Britain for the British or Britain for anyone who pleases.

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@MarioNawfal My ancestors are Ulster Scots. We fought this is Scotland. We fought this in Ireland. We fought this In America against the English. We are fighting this now against the NWO. Andrew Jackson, Patrick Henry, Stonewall Jackson, George S Patton. “Give me Liberty or give me death”

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@RFKJr_Official this is what our young men need. How can we make it happen?

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@elonmusk I am a male high school agriculture teacher. The number one factor making us not want to work? We could make more in other industries and not have to deal with absurd rules and a nanny state. That being said, “If not me then who?”
Our young men need male role models.

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@isaacfrench_ This is the way

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@SwaeLea

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@GoFreeCrusader @TooWhiteToTweet Actually he was of Jewish descent

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@PaulSkallas He has a vice. Clout

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@teslaownersSV @elonmusk @elonmusk I am praying for your freedom to be found in Christ this year. The ultimate way to boost society and the birthrate is through a revival. We don’t have revival to meet these, but they are the byproducts of healthy individuals. Jesus Christ is the answer. God bless!

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@DzambhalaHODL Influencing people to voluntarily feed the system genetic info on us is evil and will only hurt our future

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@hereforzosia Childless

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@coophos If only you were this passionate about your nation and the way of life being stolen from you.

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@IterIntellectus We just use glass. On baby 2 and has worked great each time