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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The families i know with 5 kids are Orthodox Jews or Mormons.

I hope i never hear any woman who has birthed 3 or more kids ever call herself an environmentalist, because I will give  her an earful. [/quote]

I have three kids and consider myself an environmentalist.  I didn’t intend to have 3.  I got pregnant accidentally and struggled with whether to terminate but couldn’t bring myself to do it.  I take public transportation, compost, avoid buying new things (and the third mostly uses hand me downs) and use a lot of vintage stuff to avoid buying new, have electric car for when public transportation is impractical, only eat meat occasionally and try to limit it to local free-range when we do, and donate a lot of money to environmental causes.  I’m sorry that isn’t enough for you. 
I got sterilized after the third if that makes you feel better. [/quote]

I have 3 as well and adopting a 4th. I live 2 miles from work and DH works from home. Kids are walking distance to school. We have an electric car. We compost. We almost never fly right now, but that’s due to kids’ ages and not because we’re against flying. I don’t see the point in shaming people for having more kids. [/quote]

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