Fear.
My Dearest Barren, I have a friend who has a total of seven children. Her first was a still born. In 2018, seven children is extremely high unless you're Amish or part of some weird cult. (She belongs to neither by the way.) You know what? My friend doesn't care. She had the same joy with the first as she did with the seventh. She doesn't plan on stopping either. Her goal is to bear as many children as God gives her, regardless. Ever talk to women in their '80's who had thirteen children or the WWII vet coming from a family of ten? It was a different world back then. Back when they just made do with what they had. A simple life. A life to a degree without fear. They didn't care what others thought about a large family because it was no one else's business. (Minus the fact of modern science and the conveniences we have available now; planned parenting and such.) Plus many of them were from or having large families themselves. Despite all of our modern adv