Is it just me or is everyone having 3 kids?!

[Anonymous]

I swear a few years ago two seemed like the “standard,” and now I keep seeing baby #3 announcements everywhere. Is this actually a trend, or am I just at the age where everyone’s hitting that stage at the same time?

[Anonymous]

Very affluent people are having a 3 kid trend.

So it's definitely your bubble.

[Anonymous]

I'd say maybe 15% of my friends (older Millenial) have 3 or more kids. Most are very religious.

[Anonymous]

its popular with female doctors, 3rd one cost me so much of my health...

[Anonymous]

I work in tech and have been thinking how nuts it is in this climate to have 3 kids.

We’re all going to need to probably support our kids at this point so good luck to those ppl

[Anonymous]

Yeah. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

I am 51 and really wanted a 3rd, didn't end up doing it and am so glad we stuck with two for so many reasons.

[Anonymous]

I think with it being more socially acceptable to have a baby at 40+, a lot of couples are going for a 3rd at an older age. Whereas even 10 years ago that would have been considered quite unusual. I know couples who had a 2nd baby at 40/41 10-12 years ago, where the first baby was born when mom was 38/39, but it seemed like you always stopped at 2 if that was the case.

Interestingly, the couples I know with 3 or even 4 kids generally have two working parents as opposed to a SAHP, and they also have lots of local family help. My SAHM friends all stopped at 2!

[Anonymous]

I have friends with everything from 1-5 kids.

I feel like growing up as a family of four, we weren't that rare in the 90s and birth rate stats back up my anecdote that only children are more common and 4 kids like my family are much rarer.

And huge contrast from my parents. My mom and Dad both come from very large families (over 7 kids) and in the 50s, particularly in Catholic circles, that wasn't terribly rare.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Yeah. No thanks.

+1 that's a no from me dog.

[Anonymous]

I think having only two kids of the same gender is becoming less common. It's either boy-girl sib set or three plus, and yeah, probably because it's more acceptable now to have a baby at 40+.

[Anonymous]

Most of my friends have 4, a few have 5. 3 is small in my pretty affluent circle.

[Anonymous]

Look at data, instead of vibing out, silly. Birth rates are falling. Most parents I know have one or two children. Very few have more than two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of my friends have 4, a few have 5. 3 is small in my pretty affluent circle.

Either you're lying, or you're self-selecting into a very atypical group.