[Avodah] Rav Shmuel Vosner: Stopping After Eight Children?

[menucha]

The title of the article here is sensationalist.  The 8 children is 
parenthetic.  We do not know if the answer would have been different 
with a different number.

menucha


Prof. Levine wrote:

> From http://revach.net/article.php?id=3415
>
> Rav Shmuel Vosner was asked (Shevet HaLevi 4:161) if a 44 year old 
> person [it is not clear to me if the wife is 44 or the husband or 
> both. YL] with eight children must still have children or he may stop. 
> One of his concerns was that the local school had mixed classes until 
> the age of 14.  The man's wife on the other hand claimed that she 
> would undertake the burden of the chinuch and they can raise frum 
> children even in that environment.
>

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