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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My two sisters are my best friends!  We are having a second for this reason: to give our son a sidekick  We would need to change our careers and relocated to a LCOL area to be able to afford three, so I think we'll likely stop at two [/quote]

your kids could end up hating each other ... then what?  "give our son a sidekick" is a terrible reason.  [/quote]

No, it's making sure that DS has an older brother, not giving older brother a sidekick.  You're looking at it from an "only" point of view.

And they may hate each other, true.  But like the lotto, if you don't play, you'll never win.  If they don't have a sibling, they'll never have a sibling who is a lifelong friend.  [/quote]

It's actually much better than the lotto because they are much more likely to love each other than to hate each other. I do not know a single sibling relationship that is hateful. I only hear of them on DCUM. These are not as common. Some siblings may not be best friends, but they are usually good friends.[/quote]

I have mentioned on DCUM that my brother tried to kill me.
My DH knows. My family of origin, of course, know. But no one else knows. When friends, or acquaintances, or people at work ask why I only have one child, I don't say because in case my child turned out to be a murderous jerk I wanted to limit the damage, or because I didn't want to deal with my second child perhaps being a murderous jerk towards my first. I give them the polite brush off.

It does not surprise me, and should not surprise you, that people tell mostly happily or neutral stories to others.

I agree that my family situation is rare. Hopefully significantly rarer than siblings who are each others best friends.[/quote]

There are usually exceptions to rules. Yours is the exception, PP.

If we extend your reasoning, you should not have had any children at all in order to avoid the small chance that you have a homicidal child.[/quote]

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