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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]no - the #1 signal of wealth is 3-4 kids while living in a tier 'a' city and sending them all the privates.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ultimate-status-symbol-is-a-big-family-2015-5

As tina fey said:

"I thought that raising an only child would be the norm in New York, but I’m pretty sure my daughter is the only child in her class without a sibling. All over Manhattan, large families have become a status symbol. Four beautiful children named after kings and pieces of fruit are a way of saying, “I can afford a four-bedroom apartment and a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in elementary-school tuition fees each year. How you livin’?”"[/quote]

Urgh.  This is disgusting:

On the Upper East Side, not only are the kids themselves status symbols, they also give mothers the opportunity to preen in front of one another and to forge their own identities, Martin writes in "Primates."

... in a highly competitive culture, 'successful' offspring are status objects — and mirrors," she writes. "Promoting them, working assiduously on their behalf, is a vocation. Being a mommy here is a cutthroat, high-stakes career, stressful and anxiety-producing precisely because it is ours alone to fail at, leading to the success of failure of our offspring. And ourselves.

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This explained why Upper East Side mothers all wore tiny medallions engraved with their children's initials around their necks. And stacking rings, one for each child, on their fingers.[/quote]

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