v based, never seen a family sitcom that actually depicts a fairly more realistic family instead of the picture perfect everything is always perfectly maintained nice household of every other similar show

    • modsarefascist [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It was just much more common back then tho, my dad was the last of 9 kids. Lots of farm families, or second generation from farmers (ie. kids of farmers) tend to just have lots and lots of kids. It was a strategy to get more free labor in a lot of ways, plus their religion tells them to pop out as many as possible. I do think the american government made programs to encourage birth as a cold war preparation thing, but that wasn't where the idea of a huge family came from. It was simply protestant farmers that did that.