I volunteer my own family as a large Catholic family. I am a life long Catholic and my wife entered the Church before we were married. Eleven kids and eight are still at home. The oldest is 23 and the youngest is 5 months.
The large families are still out there but, as the past day on this thread might show, there is a lot of animosity towards having a large family. If you have not grown up or been around the dynamics of large family life, you will most likely shun or vilify the unknown and make excuses for its cause. The dynamic of helping each other make do with what God gives you while at the same time finding a vocation in life, in a society that wants to be more secular, is a huge challenge.
Funny thing is the “large family life” is the dynamic that the Church has slowly lost over the last 60 years.