Opinion

The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum)

Timothy P. Carney is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs To Be.”

“How do you do it?”

As parents of an unusually large brood, my wife and I get that question a lot. Sometimes I respond by bragging about my mass-produced breakfast sandwiches and zoo-trip techniques.