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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not a normal feeling at all. Someone who is well off with plentiful resources, time and support should not feel overwhelmed with one child. This sounds like an issue with you currently, not something that just may be provoked with a second kid, and you owe it to your current kid to work with a therapist and figure it out. [/quote]

It is actually a completely normal feeling. And it's also completely normal to not want any children. Not all women want to be baby making  and baby rearing machines.[/quote]

No, thousands of years of history tells us that’s not normal. At all. There are exceptions but that is far from the norm. The only time not having babies became ‘normalized’ in any society is immediately preceding a complete societal collapse. Read a book. [/quote]

There were not reliable forms of birth control until several decades ago.  Women weren't able to make decisions about their fertility until recently (although that is currently under threat).  Your claim is baseless when women had basically no birth control options for "thousands of years of history" short of celibacy.[/quote]

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