Why large families face insults.

Focuses on negative attitudes toward large families in Canada. How more than two offspring is viewed as a social stigma; Comments of Claudio Violato, a developmental psychologist from the University of Calgary, Alberta; Stereotypes about couples who have many children; The decrease in family size in 1996 from family size in 1931, according to Statistics Canada; Mark Genuis, director of the National Foundation For Family Research and Education, remarking on repressed hostility by the public. INSET: Working moms, divorce and taxes have shrunk the family.