A new report concludes that children growing up in large families are happier and more successful. Told you so, says mother-of-five Cassandra Jardine.
When I tell people that I have five children, they tend to say: “Lucky you.” Roughly translated, that means: “What a show-off.” A generation back, large families were generally attributed to rejection of contraception; nowadays, they are considered to be a public declaration of a huge income, limitless energy and a selfish disregard for the future of the planet, to boot.?
None of the above is true in my case, but I’m always rather feeble in putting the case for large families any more coherently than to say that I enjoy having lots of children, however expensive and tiring they can be.
