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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh hell no. You'd be parenting for like 50 years. Your kids would have [b]weird relationships with each other[/b]. You'd be paying for college for two solid decades.

Though also, I should note -- I would never have 3 kids. Two tops, I have never, ever wanted 3 kids.[/quote]

Of course, they would, since they'd have you for their mom.[/quote]

What an unnecessarily rude comment. I'm guessing you have kids with a big age gap and are feeling defensive.

I personally would not want two of my kids to have a 20 year age gap and been different generations -- I think it would make it hard/impossible for them to see each other as peers, and would risk the older child being parentified and treated as a third adult in the household. Which they would be, since they'd be in college when their youngest sibling was born.

I'm sure there are unconventional families, especially blended families, where people make that work, but I would not want to choose it on purpose because I think it would be very hard work to keep it from being a problem or source of conflict or resentment. I think it was hard enough for my parents with a gap of 10 years between oldest and youngest, I wouldn't want any more than that personally.[/quote]

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