How many kids do most of your friends/circle have? How many do you have?

[Anonymous]

We are in Gaithersburg and have one kid (a 3 year old). Everyone we know has 1 or 2 kids, but that might be because of the age of all the kids.

[Anonymous]

1 or 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are all of these 4 kid families? We're moving to the area and expecting our 4th, and would like to find a neighborhood where we won't be the 'weirdos with all the kids'...most of the DC area people we know are 3 kids or less.

I'm in Potomac and know 3 families with 4 kids. The majority of families have 2.

Also in McLean. If they don't have 4, most families have 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are all of these 4 kid families? We're moving to the area and expecting our 4th, and would like to find a neighborhood where we won't be the 'weirdos with all the kids'...most of the DC area people we know are 3 kids or less.

Olney/Brookeville, MD

[Anonymous]

In our friend group, everyone has 1 or 2 except on couple who had twins in the second pregnancy and another who had two children, waited six years and had another set of two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are all of these 4 kid families? We're moving to the area and expecting our 4th, and would like to find a neighborhood where we won't be the 'weirdos with all the kids'...most of the DC area people we know are 3 kids or less.

Olney/Brookeville, MD

I was wondering this also. We are close in and the majority have 2. Three is not uncommon.

[Anonymous]

Generally everyone i know has two. I’ve found that if you have a different number then two people tend to enquire as to why. Mostly polite but sometimes not. We have one and I get the sense I get as many questions about “why one” and my other friends get “how did you decide to go for three”.

Now that my son is three I get the sense people are guessing we’re done.

[Anonymous]

We're inside the Beltway in Silver Spring, and at least two of our neighbors have three kids. Most have two (aside from a few with very young children who probably won't stay "onlies" for long), and I'd say most of my kid's friends are split between two- and three-kid families. Ours is an only, and I can think of maybe a half-dozen of their friends who are also only kids.

The houses in our neighborhood aren't usually huge, and the apartments and townhouses tend to be rented by immigrant families also with two or three kids, or single/childless professionals. Most of our neighbors in single-family homes are highly-educated professionals—lawyers, scientists, policy wonks—working for nonprofits or the government. So anyone with more than three kids usually ends up heading further out into the suburbs in order to afford enough house to hold them all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're inside the Beltway in Silver Spring, and at least two of our neighbors have three kids. Most have two (aside from a few with very young children who probably won't stay "onlies" for long), and I'd say most of my kid's friends are split between two- and three-kid families. Ours is an only, and I can think of maybe a half-dozen of their friends who are also only kids.

The houses in our neighborhood aren't usually huge, and the apartments and townhouses tend to be rented by immigrant families also with two or three kids, or single/childless professionals. Most of our neighbors in single-family homes are highly-educated professionals—lawyers, scientists, policy wonks—working for nonprofits or the government. So anyone with more than three kids usually ends up heading further out into the suburbs in order to afford enough house to hold them all.

DP.

FTR, we’re highly educated white collar professionals with 4 kids.

[Anonymous]

we have 3. most family and friends have 1, sometimes 2. only one friend has 3 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're inside the Beltway in Silver Spring, and at least two of our neighbors have three kids. Most have two (aside from a few with very young children who probably won't stay "onlies" for long), and I'd say most of my kid's friends are split between two- and three-kid families. Ours is an only, and I can think of maybe a half-dozen of their friends who are also only kids.

The houses in our neighborhood aren't usually huge, and the apartments and townhouses tend to be rented by immigrant families also with two or three kids, or single/childless professionals. Most of our neighbors in single-family homes are highly-educated professionals—lawyers, scientists, policy wonks—working for nonprofits or the government. So anyone with more than three kids usually ends up heading further out into the suburbs in order to afford enough house to hold them all.

DP.

FTR, we’re highly educated white collar professionals with 4 kids.

An were do you live?

[Anonymous]

I have one. I am single and cannot afford any more.

I have a lot of single mom friends who have one. Some have 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're inside the Beltway in Silver Spring, and at least two of our neighbors have three kids. Most have two (aside from a few with very young children who probably won't stay "onlies" for long), and I'd say most of my kid's friends are split between two- and three-kid families. Ours is an only, and I can think of maybe a half-dozen of their friends who are also only kids.

The houses in our neighborhood aren't usually huge, and the apartments and townhouses tend to be rented by immigrant families also with two or three kids, or single/childless professionals. Most of our neighbors in single-family homes are highly-educated professionals—lawyers, scientists, policy wonks—working for nonprofits or the government. So anyone with more than three kids usually ends up heading further out into the suburbs in order to afford enough house to hold them all.

I wonder if we are neighbors.

I live in a small house near downtown Silver Spring with one child. Most of my neighbors are feds and non-profiters.

[Anonymous]

DH and i are teachers and also in down-county Silver Spring. We have 3. Most of our friends and neighbors have 2 but want 3. I think most of them will. You just find a way.

Luckily my mom gives us free childcare, as most other Hispanic families I know have this luxury also. I can't imagine having to pay for childcare.

I also can't imagine not being home by 4pm to be with my kids. Teaching is the best profession!

[Anonymous]

Almost all of our friends have 2. A handful have 3. We have 3 and are adopting a 4th. I know other people with 4 but we’re not close with them and they are all religious or on a second marriage (we are neither).