{"id":4359,"date":"2006-10-09T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T11:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:58:51","slug":"washington_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"Washington Times on mini-boom in bigger families"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think this is a pretty hopeful article. The idea that if you have more then two children (alright, three at the most) you’re polluting the world, is no longer "in." <\/p>\n

I am from a family of four; Brigid is from a family of four; my brother Phil is expecting #4. Too bad Brigid and I only have two. <\/p>\n

Bigger families gain in popularity – Nation\/Politics – insider.washingtontimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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NEW YORK — Laura Bennett isn’t bound by convention. Professionally, at 42, she’s pursuing a midcareer switch into big-time fashion design. At home, she’s a mother of five — with No. 6 due next month.
    "It was nothing that we planned ahead of time," Mrs. Bennett says. "It’s more that we were enjoying all the kids. We have a happy home. Why not have as many children as we can?"
    It’s barely a blip on the nation’s demographic radar — 11 percent of U.S. births in 2004 were to women who already had three children, up from 10 percent in 1995. But there seems to be a growing openness to having more than two children, in some case more than four.
    The reasons are diverse — from religious to, as Mrs. Bennett reasons, "Why not?" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think this is a pretty hopeful article. The idea that if you have more then two children (alright, three at the most) you’re polluting the world, is no longer "in." I am from a family of four; Brigid is from a family of four; my brother Phil is expecting #4. Too bad Brigid and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9566,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/9566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}