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FAMILIES WHO DO THINGS
I low To Enjoy
This California family believes in doing things together—
and in doing things apart, too!
TOLUCA LAKI, CALIF.
Betty MCCARTHY has ten girls, one boy and eleven
different theories on how to raise them. "I don't feel
highly polished, little white shoes are necessarily the
mark of a perfect mother,” she says.
The McCarthys (father is a lawyer in North Holly
wood) live in a many-bedroomed house in Toluca Lake,
Calif. Mrs. McCarthy believes that doing things together
is fun and rewarding. Bui she points out that with a large
family it is also important to do things separately. "I'm
trying to raise eleven individual children," she says.
A secret for big families
This is the McCarthys' happy secret for raising a
big family (and it’s not bad for small ones either): both
parents concentrate on giving each child a private time.
A bike ride with five-year-old Elizabeth in the basket; a
swim with Jennifer, six; a trip to a play with the ]2-year
old twins and Maureen, 14; a wildflower hunt with nine
year-old Sheila and 11-year-old Colleen.
They do do some things together. The whole family
often hikes through the Hollywood Hills, with the older
children helping carry the smalls. And on Sunday
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By ROBERTA ASHLEY
morning when they’re off to church they look like a
beautiful, gaily colored, moving staircase.
But Betty says that it isn’t really too easy for the
family to do social things together. "Our mothers are
the only people we know who don’t mind having thirteen
of us to dinner.”
At home, the senior McCarthys dine late, but often
have a few of the children with them. But "when you
live in a house with eleven youngsters, it's also impor
tant occasionally to light the candles, close the dining
room door and have dinner as though you were just
married and had no children.”
Eight-year-old Robbie has his own room, but the
girls all share bedrooms. Each time any two have a
squabble they change roommates. This involves moving
the bed, clothes and one pair of curtains. Betty says she
doesn't mind, but it does create a wildly mixed decor.
We wondered if Robbie and his father minded being
the only men in the family. Betty says they don’t seem
to, and besides the girls bring plenty of boys to the
house. If things get too rough the men go off fishing by
themselves —a sort of separate togetherness.
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