65. "My wife DOES NOT WORK!" About young mothers!
I read an interesting article on Facebook, and copied it to be used on my blog. We raised our children in the late 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's mostly. We lived in a neighborhood where most mothers didn't work. We had 9 children, but in our neighborhood our neighbor to the left had 9 children, the neighbor on the right had 7, and the neighbor across the street had 10. (Of course this was during the same years we were having our family.) Also in the same ward a neighbor half a block away had 10 children, and another half block south another family had 9, and over a street another ward member had 10 children. One of our daughters had 22 girls her age in the ward! Wayne and me on our honeymoon, in September, 1955, in Zion's Canyon. So our large family wasn't unusual. Our children played together a lot, and it was safe in those days -- we could let them go to a nearby field...