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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Just to be clear: I don't judge or blame anybody for getting overwhelmed with their children – whether they have one or five!

I started this topic to get some insight on a way of thinking I don't possess (and am trying hard not to side eye), and that is the type of family who are so overwhelmed with their 6 and 8 year olds misbehaving that they "should really call The Supernanny" but are also pushing around a 2 month old in a stroller. I refuse to believe the issues with the older kids arised overnight. Yet the parents decide to try for another instead of solving the problems they already have at hand?

That's the thing I'm trying to understand. Some responses so far have been quite helpful with that. Some have misunderstood my question to mean "why do people have multiple kids without foreseeing that there will be more stress" though, which I wanted to clarify I didn't intend at all. It's just about the few people who can metaphorically see the edge of a cliff and willingly take the step that will take them over it. [/quote]

You and I must know the same family. She even told me she had given up on her two oldest because their behavior was horrendous. When she became pregnant, no one could believe it. She was so stressed with two ill-behaved boys, why have another. For her, though, she thinks it's prestigious to have three or more because people will think she has money. I feel sorry for the husband as I know he did not want the third child, she just pushed him around to get what she wants. [/quote]

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