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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s more correlated to education than income. [b]DH and I attended top undergrad and grad programs and almost none of those friends have more than 2 kids[/b]. Like maybe 2/20 couples off the top of my head have more than 2 kids. [/quote]

Do you come from family wealth?

I think many of these people are saying that they are seeing 3+ in fams that earn a lot but also get grandparent help [/quote]

Here is the thing with big families and grandparent help--the grandparents tend to help the most with the oldest grandkids--both because they are young and because the oldest grandkids get first dibs. So you'll often see the oldest kid in these families having the first 2 or 3 grandkids close together, and the grandparent helping with those but not the others.

I come from a huge family (UMC Mormon) and my grandmothers (who were only in their early 40s when their first grandkids were born) both cared for the first couple grandkids (out of more than 10 on each side) but not the others.

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Maybe this is how it works in your family of origin but in my family and my husband’s family the grandparents were actually working when the older child had young kids and retired by the time the younger child(ren) had kids so could be more hands on. I wouldn’t generalize … and there are many grandparents who only help a little here and there regardless of age. It varies considerably. [/quote]

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