Women aren't "pooping out" kids of their own accord, birth control (rejecting what God is wont to give u) and having a small family is considered taboo.
The same way in some countries being fat is a positive mark of class, in Somali culture among many others, a man must be rich in children otherwise he is considered weak (impotent), or not virile enough if he only has a few, so so as to not have their masculinity questioned, they seek to have a full fledged football team or two even in poverty. I should really say especially in poverty; it's a worldwide phenomenon that the only thing poor people are rich in is children (that they can't feed, 'cuz god will provide duh).
I come from a small family unit, and I can't tell u how many times the size of the family has been questioned or stray commented on throughout the years, typically by men. This has been indirectly discussed b4, and here's a comment I got on here after mentioning it:
Your parents did not do enough to increase the Somali population. Every Somali couple should have 10 children if we are to keep up with the Amxaro.
When my cousin got married, ppl in her community were asking her and her husband if she was pregnant within a month after she was married, by the second year of marriage they were interrogating her, asking if everything was "alright?". When they started having kids as
they planned it (they have two kids), it quieted down but they are still being asked about more on the way lol.
I have no problem believing they r miserable and burntout. I've only heard it being vocalised a couple times, where a lady would say she wanted to stop at five but ended up with double that number bc her husband wanted more. It's unhealthy to have children in the double digits. There's no way you can properly raise and equip 11 children with everything they need, especially in the West. I can almost guarantee that one half of the childrens' childhood was cut short as they were being trained to raise the smaller half! What a curse.
Somalis need to learn that quality is better than quantity.