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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everybody judges to some degree and if you're at all social and paying attention everyone will feel judged once in a while.

Parents of unless are judged as being lazy, selfish, cold, hovering.

Parents of many are judged as being greedy, addicted to babies, dumb, careless, also helicoptery.

Non-parents are judged as being sad or mean or selfish or are pitied or abnormal.

I'm sure some of these people are some of these things, but all in all we do what we can with what we have, and it doesn't matter. Having little kids means existing in a really myopic universe, and growing out of that helps alleviate all the judgement and perceived judgement by others.

I have found that as my child gets older (9 now) my perception of being judge has stopped and instead of judging others I feel ore empathy (or maybe relief, or occasional envy). Having a healthy normal life means you have stuff to do: that can happen with 1 or 2 or 4 or no kids - everyone keeps moving on to the next thing, it's just a different thing for each of us. [/quote]

One thing I disagree with: the people who are seen as helicopters are the parents of obliged, not of multiple.

I tend to largely agree with you otherwise [/quote]

Yeah I don't think these are firm categories - everyone has different stereotypes and perceptions. Birth order and family size isn't really a concrete science. [/quote]

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