The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.