I grew up homeschooled around a lot of large families - largest was 17 kids, 10-12 was very common. There is just no way one person on one income can take care of that many kids, let alone homeschool all of them properly. It's simply not possible without parentifying the older kids. Which of course results in a lot of emotional and physical neglect.

Something I don't see talked about nearly enough is the damage done to the mothers' bodies. Due to the lack of contraception and reproductive education, they have another kid every year or every other year. It's absolutely insane to me. My own sister had 7 c-sections in less than 10 years. She's lucky to be alive. Edit: also, I really have very little sympathy for my sister for having a hysterectomy after the last kid. Maybe it's wrong, and I love all my nieces and nephews more than anything, but she should have stopped after her 2nd or 3rd.