Foundation for Large Families


11 Questions/Comments About Large Families


Question # 1 How can a large family give individual attention to each child when they have so many children?






Question # 2 What will happen to all these children if you and your spouse should happen to divorce or die?






Question # 3 Are you benefitting financially from adopting these children?






Question # 4 Don't you know that ALL very large families end up having problems and splitting up? How and why is your family any different? Do you know other large families that are successful?






Question # 5 How do you handle cultural and ethnic issues in a large family?






Question # 6 How and when does a large family decide their family is complete?






Question # 7 As a social worker I know many families who have only one child with behavioral and/or medical problems and can't handle it. How does your family with so many children with multiple issues handle more than one child with behavioral and/or medical issues?






Question # 8 A large family can NEVER handle the everyday things a small family could...such as eating meals together, outings, vacations, celebrating birthdays....I'd bet the kids are never able to join community activities like sports, dancing lessons etc. In what ways is your family involved in these "everyday type of things and how do you accomplish that?"






Question # 9 Why does YOUR family continue to adopt ?






Question # 10...OUR TURN...What do YOU want social workers and agencies to know about the future status of large families or the placement of children?






QUESTION # 11: When a parent is sick, the kids in a large family must be neglected. How on earth can parents deal with their own sicknesses? Also, many large families have children who have to be hospitalized, I bet a lot of times the older kids have to take over the parenting during those times, or else the parents cannot give attention to the child in the hospital? Again, how on earth is it possible?