MovieChat Forums > Big Love (2006) Discussion > number of children

number of children

posted 10 years ago by Avery92
2 replies | jump to latest

Sorry, I don't know if this has been discussed before. I'm rewatching the series, and before I started rewatching I stopped at season three so I am scared to search through the boards too much. Please no spoilers for the later seasons :)

Basically, I am surprised there aren't more children. Maybe I am misinformed, but I thought that fundamentalist Mormons didn't believe in birth control. I thought usually each wife living that lifestyle had around 7 or so children.

Do fundamentalists believe in birth control? Or does it vary family to family?

Is it a goal of fundamentalists to have as many children as happens naturally?

Thanks for any responses!

[–] cdon 10 years ago

It depends. Most fundamentalist do not believe in birth control. There are women who have 20 kids by the time their done. Then there are those like Warren jeffs who bought case loads of birth control for his father's wives because he told them they had endometriosis, but in reality he was sleeping with many of them and didn't want them to get pregnant because by this time his father was in his mid 80s and couldn't have kids.One of warrens father's wives gave birth to warrens twins 7 months after his father's death. The number of children also depends. There are some who only have 1 some who have 7-8 but many of them have upwards of 10.

[–] ksouthworth68 10 years ago

As for Bill and Barb I don't think they would be considered fundamentalists before Nikki entered the family. And the surgery to save her life from cancer involved her reproductive organs and additional children were no longer possible.

Margie had three kids in what I believe was about 5 years. She wasn't even mid 20s or barely there, so in theory if she and Bill would have had another 15 or maybe 20 years to make more kids 6 or 7 would have been likely.

I believe to say anything about Nikki would amount to spoiling.