Explanation:

Frank McCourt's birth is the spawn of almost all of the problems in the book. This is due to the fact that his birth was an accident that forced two people, Angela and Malochy, Franks mother and father respectively to marry one another. To make matters worse though they barely take care of one child they have seven more. After the eighth child Angela, Frank's mother, Decides that she'll have "no more children."
*Quote from page 216 from Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.