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Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.