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[quote=Anonymous]I have 4 and have several friends with five or more.  I have actually heard from them that the big transition happens at six kids.  That’s when you can’t fit in a minivan anymore, and it gets hard to even get the kids out of the house.

I don’t know that my friends are environmentalists, but I have to say that they seem to live in ways that are fairly environmentally friendly.  They don’t waste food and tend to grow and can quite a bit of their own, cloth diaper, wear hand me downs instead of buying new clothes, don’t use airline travel much, have fewer toys, renovate their homes less often (or almost never), etc.  I think it’s generally because they are just not the type to care much about keeping up with the Jones’s.

I don’t work full time with four, but I stopped working full time when I had my first.  I don’t know anyone who works full time with five, but I can’t think of any reason that you couldn’t.  Once you have designed your work life around childcare, it seems to me that it doesn’t matter much how many children you have.  If you have to leave work every day by 5:00pm to get kids at daycare/aftercare before it closes, it doesn’t much matter whether you are picking up one child or five as far as work is concerned.   You will probably need more help with laundry and cooking if you can’t get it done during the day, but that’s a separate issue.  
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