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'Then Comes Baby: The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Three Years of Parenthood' by Greg and Lisa Popcak. Ava Maria Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2014). 272 pp., $16.95.
Their most important title, however, is not so average: Mom and Dad to 14 children. To almost anyone, parent or not, raising 14 kids is a fantasy. That fact alone would make the Fatzingers, who paid off their final debt balance, a mortgage, nine years ago, qualified to publish their advice on managing money. But through detailing their own strategies on budgeting, staying out of high-interest debt, saving for big expenses, and raising financially responsible adults — all of which are based on lived experience and most of which are reinforced by lessons from their Catholic faith — the coup...