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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve noticed a few things about parents of only children that cannot fathom having any additional kids:
1) They don’t realize that siblings actually enjoy spending time together.
2) Often the fathers are not very engaged. I had a mother of an only ask me how I handle my kids being in different activities at the same time. I thought it was pretty obvious that my husband took one kid. But after I told her, she responded that she handles the activities...okay...
3) They have some time-consuming hobby or job with weird hours and fail to consider that others do not have that taking up their time
[b]4) They are low energy people[/quote][/b]

I have noticed this a lot. I try and remember back when I had one kid and wonder if with each kid I just got more energy (Kinda like a fake it till you make it theory) or if Ive always had a lot of energy and that contributed to my desire to have 3 kids. [/quote]
Gosh, you people are bitches. Some high energy, wonderful people who don’t have weird hobbies or jobs have one kid because of infertility. But since you are jerks with no empathy, how would you be expected to understand that. Enjoy paying over a million dollars to send your four kids to college and congrats on contributing to overpopulation.
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Willing to bet parents of 4+ kids have no plans to pay for college. I have two friends with big families (4 kids and 6 kids), and they live on single income. Moms home school. Neither have any college savings/529 plans. I guess they're counting on scholarships or big time financial aid, but I think that is so limiting to the kids. There's just no extra income by the time they feed giant families, pay for housing, insurance, etc. [/quote]

People with all sorts of numbers of children have trouble making ends meet and don’t have anything saved in 529s.  It has really not been my experience that homeschooling families with multiple children are any more likely not to save for college.  [/quote]

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