Population Control

Today in biology my professor made a comment somewhat related to what we were talking about that had to do with population control. Now, I am not sure if I am the only one in my family who feels this way, but I often feel slightly insulted or offended (and therefore become defensive) when people talk about how good population control is and how we should do all these things such as only allow people to have a certain number of kids and promote birth control more and all of that. Some of it, such as the birth control issue, is a separate issue because it is more of a morality thing and has not a lot to do with me personally. However, I sometimes feel that people are pointing the finger at people like me and my family and saying we're bad for the country and the world because we have too many kids. Like kids are a bad thing or something, and we screw everything up for other people. I know they don't really mean it personally, but coming from a family of 15, it's somewhat insulting to hear people say people should only be allowed to have 2 or 3 kids or whatever, and if they have more, then what? they should be punished? I don't think people realize how they sound when they talk about it, or realize that they are offending people like myself who are part of large families and think that there is nothing wrong with it. In fact, I personally feel that my family, as individuals and as a whole, is contributing and will contribute more to society then many other people can even dream about. We're making a difference in the world and in fact, the more of us there are the bigger difference we can make.