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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Backward reasoning. 1. The reason mothers of 4 are generally happier than mother of 3, is that they wanted a large family all along, and got it. Not that they ended up with a large family by accident, and then found out that it was "easier". [b]2. I know lots of people who had to parent their little siblings. Most of them don't have kids of their own, because of the psychological toll it took on their childhoods.[/b] 3. While I would have loved a large family, my oldest was born with special needs. Parenting him was a full time job, and I missed my fertile window to expand beyond 2. But I certainly wouldn't have forced my oldest kids to parent the younger kids! 4. This man is a moron. [/quote] Absolutely this. Go ahead and have 5 kids if you're going to have real adults taking care of them 90% of the time.[/quote] +1 This. If you've got the money to foist your kids on nannies great. If you have the money to have a SAHD or SAHM with talent for kids, great. But 2 working parents without means having all those kids because of reasons of faith (no birth control) or by accident is a recipe for disaster.[/quote] Even the best SAHM cannot take care of say 4 kids under 7 competently. Nobody can. [/quote] That’s just not true. I am in a group of higher order multiples, so many of us had 3 plus a sibling in that time frame and a couple had quadruplets. They are well cared for children. [/quote]
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