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Reply to "Tim Carney in the Post: The Ideal Number of Kids is Four (at a minimum)"
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[quote=Anonymous]This is all so silly. I'm glad this random guy knows more than the 90% or so women who never have more than 3 kids. Every family will be different. My friends with 4 kids do seem happy, but even if that does mimic a national pattern, it's correlation, not causation. Most people will choose to stop before 4 if their marriage is hard, if their kids have special needs, if they hate the baby stage, if money is tight, if they don't want to go through the physical demands of pregnancy and childbirth again, if they like to travel or sleep in, if they are advanced maternal age, if they have careers or hobbies they want to have time for ... most of these people would be even MORE unhappy with 4+ kids. If you are sailing smoothly enough through kid #3 to contemplate a 4th, you already have an edge up. [/quote]
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