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I Grew Up In a Large Family

I grew up in a traditional large family - I am the youngest of ten, five sisters and four brothers. It was the way in our church community
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TradWifeandMother · 41-45, F
From the number of replies I have received, this clearly remains a far more common way of life than society and the media would have us think and in so many ways it is as least as life-giving and healthy as the so-called enlightened way of broken marriages, fractured relationships, family discord and disappearance of respect. I am glad I grew up in my very large family and that I was so wonderfully and firmly guided by my father and by the church to a marriage partner who has been and remains my rock. I am similarly glad that my life has been one of home-making and child-rearing... again, the natural order regardless of what people try to say