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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are all different and are made for different lives. I personally would never want to have only 1 child and could write a very mean and judgmental post like OP did.

But I am actually very happy with my comfortable life, my interesting job, my wonderful nanny, my super efficient house cleaner and my very fun (and sometimes loud) 3 kids!

To each his own and I have met several people who wished could have had more children… [b]I have never met one who wished for fewer kids.[/b]

I have to say, you sound old and boring OP… perhaps you are not old, but you are definitely boring[/quote]

[b]You have never met one who was comfortable admitting out loud that they wished for fewer kids.[/b]

On the other hand, OP is a real jerk so…[/quote]

This. Also, even if someone might admit to themselves that it might have been better to have fewer kids for any number of reasons, very few parents would wish one of their children out of existence. It's easy to lament a child who never came into existence. My MIL has spent her entire adult life being sad she never had a daughter, for instance. I am the mother of an only, and that was a conscious choice we made and that I am happy with. But it is impossible not to sometimes wonder what another child would have been like. We came close enough that we had names picked out. That doesn't mean I think we made a mistake in sticking with one, but it's normal to sometimes think about the other paths your life might have taken. I also sometimes think about what life would be like if I'd taken a promotion across the country when it was offered to me 15 years ago, or if I'd dropped out of grad school after the first year when I was very inclined to do so. I have no regrets in life, but my mind sometimes travels down these roads anyway. It's normal.

But any parent who honestly sometimes thinks about what their life would be like if one of their children didn't exist? They rightly will never say this out loud because it would be to horrible to admit.[/quote]

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