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OP of that post here.  I said that limiting your family to one child is a shame if the reason is to live in an overpriced area or because you insist on sending your kid to "just the right" private school and you can only afford to do that with one child. Children are not pets that you have mainly to magnify your own ego or just something to have as long as they don't intrude too much on your pursuit of material satisfaction. If you have a medical conditioon that makes it impractical to raise another child or your relationship falls apart, that's different. But if you have a child because you've always wanted an Audi and a baby and now that you have one of each, your needs are satisfied, that's pretty selfish.  You and others (only kids and parents of only kids mainly) can get as snarky as you like, but it doesn't alter the fact that if the main consideration for your family size is YOU, YOU , YOU  and what's most convient for YOU, YOU, YOU, then, yes, you're being very selfish. [/quote]

You have managed to add pet owning to the list of things you seem to misunderstand about others.  Of course children are not pets. But pets aren't really what you seem to think they are either.  Most people don't own pets to "magnify" their own ego and pets actually do intrude on the smooth management of your life quite a bit. Anyone who has ever been out on the street in the middle of the night with a dog who has an upset stomach or scrambled around to find a friend to watch a dog for the weekend when a last minute family thing comes up would know that.  Most people have pets because they enjoy showing love and affection and getting love and affection in return.

PP, I think you will find it unnecessary to be so dogmatic if you remember that people are complex, live complex lives, and have complex motivations for all of their choices.  [/quote]

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