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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You want to support your first child LESS because you chose to have THREE more children?[/quote]

Isn’t this literally what any parent who has more than one child is choosing to do? Imagine you are a happily married couple. You earn a decent income. If you have one child, you may be able to put a lot into their college savings account and throw lavish birthday parties. If you have a couple more children, you may not be able to afford the same lifestyle x4. Your comment seems to think that the firstborn should still receive the full college savings and lavish birthday parties while the second, third born receive much less, because it would be wrong to support a child LESS just because you chose to have MORE children. [/quote]

In your “happily married couple” example the first child still has the benefit of an intact family.  They live with that family.  They have siblings that are “equal” to them.

But when there is a first child SEPARATE from the other children, none of that is true.  The first child has a broken home, while the other three children have an intact one.  The first child has to split time between houses and misses out on the day-to-day connection and activity.  The half siblings get to live there full time and have a better position in the home.

It’s not even close to being the same thing as a first child gaining three additional siblings in an intact home.[/quote]

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