A few more quotes

From Colin Brazier's think tank study:
When the renowned biographer Lady
Longford was asked why she had eight children,
her answer was, in part, ‘curiosity’. Her children
were strikingly different examples of humanity and
she could scarcely wait to see the next.
The parents of large families come to recognise
that not all their offspring can, or should be, top of
the class. Conversely, they can afford to be more
cavalier since they are likely to find at least one
naturally-gifted scholar in their brood. As motherof-
four and author of the Parent Trap Maureen
Freely wrote: ‘You might still be trying to live out
your fantasies through them, but that still means
fewer fantasies per child.’73