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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fine by me. I’ve always wanted 4 kids, so if people want to have fewer to offset my strong drive to reproduce, it’s a win for us all. [/quote]

YOu call it a strong drive to reproduce, I call it a breeding fetish.[/quote]

That’s fine with me. I love having tons of kids around, love being pregnant, love the baby stage, love it all. Some people wanna spend their life traveling or on hobbies, I want to spend mine raising kids. [/quote]

We have two biological kids and this is so weird to me. Pregnancy is so taxing on the body (so much prolapse after 3+ pregnancies) and the birthing itself is horrific. It takes so much effort, time, and $ to raise a child properly that I can't phantom having a litter of them. You are supposed to read at least 30 minutes to them every night before bedtime, so even if you had them back to back, which is unhealthy (again, prolapse), the kids will be at different literacy stages, so you'd basically have to spend 2 hours each night doing barely adequate reading. I can't see how anyone with limited resources can raise so many kids properly and give them the right start in life. It will always be a compromise - less personal attention, so and so school district, not a lot of quality food, not a lot of college $. Travel and being exposed to different things are crucial for a developing mind. 
One of the PP wrote that large modern families are a sign of binary financial resources (wealth or poverty) and this person is right. I went to college with someone who is one of five and all of them grew up with several governesses, went to the best lower schools, and  were shipped to Deerfield in 9th grade. They are all successful and well adjusted. It takes a TON of $ to raise five the right way.[/quote]

This is true, but it's not just money. I am one of 4 and of me and my siblings 2 of us have kids and 2 of us have chosen not to have kids, the ones with kids have stopped at 2. The reasons are not wanting to be parents or it's impossible to adequately parent more than 2 kids and adequately means more than finances. Interestingly the 2 who have decided to have kids were favored by our parents and recieved the majority of their [b]emotional resources[/b].[/quote]

But not financial. The 2 without kids didn't need the emotional support beyond what they were already getting.[/quote]

Emotional support as children and yes all 3 od us  needed it, but didn't get it. And seeing how flippiant your response was I suspect   several of your children are emotionally neglected as well.[/quote]

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