That is probably an unusually high proportion, and in Eichholz's cases it seems to have been associated with very unusually large families, but the infant mortality is always very high.
Reports on child labor published by the National Child Labor Committee only incidentally reveal the correlation of this evil with that of large families.
As long as we officially encourage and countenance the production of large families, the evils of child labor will confront us.
The figures presented by Hibbs (2) likewise reveal a much higher infant mortality rate for the later born children of large families.
This little book included a statement of the law, evidence of the serious suffering among the poor caused by over-large families, and a clear statement of the checks proposed, with arguments in their favor.
The children of large families, the birth controllers say, are more afflicted by infectious diseases than those of small families.
Large families in proper economic positions are not different from small families as regards the infectious diseases.
Moreover, the overcrowded homes of large families reared in poverty further contribute to this condition.
They have but one point of basic difference from their enslaved sisters--they are not burdened with the rearing of large families.
There is another fallacy in the frequent statement that the children in small families are more feeble than those in large families.
But the system must be regarded as simply temporary, and the disruption of large families--a phenomenon of which I have already spoken--renders its application more and more difficult.
In the time of serfage the proprietors clearly perceived these and similar advantages, and compelled their serfs to live together in large families.
Sir William Gull[19] has remarked that those candidates for the Indian Civil Service who are members of large families are on the whole the strongest.
It is reasonable to expect this would be the case owing to the internal discipline among members of large families, and to the wholesome sustaining and restraining effects of family pride and family criticism.
You see, she had brought along her family, and Ol' Mrs. Possum is one of those who believe in large families.
All Meadow Mice believe in large families, and that is probably why there are more Meadow Mice than any other Mice in the country.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large families" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
