Seventeen Children

[Chernabog]

It reminds me of that line from the play The Women (it was cut out of the movie version):

(Woman announces to another woman that Ms. Potter is going to have her 9th child)

Womans reaction: "Nine children! Nine children? What is she darling, careless or Catholic?"

I suppose that as long as they had enough money to care for all those kids it would be okay, but there is a point at which it isn't fair for the kids to have to literally mother and father their younger siblings every single day because the parents simply cannot do it.