How many kids do most of your friends/circle have? How many do you have?
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Anonymous
| Right now five. We're a foster family though so only two are ours for keeps at this point. We're not religious. Most foster families we know that have more than three are religious. Our closest friends have 2, 2 and 3. The age split of our kids makes it such that when we do things with the older kids' friends or with those families (unless at a park or outdoors) we divide and conquer or get a sitter for the littlest ones. If we wait around for another family of 5 that we actually like and enjoy spending time with we'd be waiting forever, I think. |
Anonymous
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We have 1.
Local sister has 2. Friends have: 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2... We are early-mid 40s, all mid level professionals, northern VA. I can only think of two families in our extended circles with 3 and only one with 4. |
Anonymous
| SAHM in a wealthy non-DC area. Almost all my friends have 3-4 kids. I have three. Almost no one has 1 or 5+. |
Anonymous
Rich Catholics and rich Modern Orthodox families in our NY suburb always had 5. Dad worked in Manhattan, usually finance. |
Anonymous
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We started early but only have one due to unexplained secondary infertility. We tried for 5 years to have a second and could not.
Most of our friends have 2 or 3, more have 3 than have 2. Half of our friends are one and done, most not by choice. Most of my friends had their first at or after 40. |
Anonymous
| Between 1-3 kids. Most have 2. We have 1 due to fertility issues. |
Anonymous
| 1 or 2. One family with four, but they got two sets of twins so a special case. |
Anonymous
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Most people in recent years at my kids school I’ve noticed have 3 kids.
We have 3 most of our friends have 3. DC and MD - all mid-late thirties |
Anonymous
| All my friends have two kids. I’m 47 with one child. |
Anonymous
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We have 4
My brothers each have 2 --2 boys that are 2 years apart --twin girls Dh's siblings have: --2 boys that are 4 years apart --1 boy --1 boy Friends are way to varied to account for. But we go to a church (Catholic) where many families have 8+ children. |
Anonymous
| I’m in DC and most of our friends have 1-2 kids. We are considering a third and we would be the only ones in our friend group. |
Anonymous
| We have 2 with a 10 year age gap. Our friends have 0-3 kids. |
Anonymous
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We have 2. Several of our very close friends have 1 by choice. Growing up I knew exactly one family with one kid. Times have changed.
I know plenty of 3-4 kid families. Most people have 2. But 3-4 is happenings. I know one family with 5. |
Anonymous
| We’re in Howard county and have 2 kids. Most our friends have 3 though. |
Anonymous
| I have noticed that my friends who have a career have 2 and my friends who stay home have 3. I have 2. |