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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents are European "intellectuals" if you will. In their circles, it was definitely a fashionable thing not to have kids and if you did, to stop at one. I wonder how many people deeply regret their choices in life that they made to achieve some kind of made up "status." [/quote]

Northern European professionals REALLY look down on anyone with more than 2 kids, sometimes even one. DH works for a Northern European company and most of the execs I've met have one kid. It's part of why they can afford such good maternity/paternity benefits for white-collar workers--social shaming if you have too many kids.[/quote]

European PP here - in my parents' case, it was the literature/philosophy/arts circles that have Paris as their epicenter. Didn't realize it extended into the corporate world.  I'm an only child, and my mother has only lately lamented not having another (perhaps after seeing her two grandkids and the fact that I haven't suddenly become an idiot?).   As for maternity/paternity benefits, that's all well and good until you realize you don't have anyone to pay into the pension funds...  :mrgreen: [/quote]

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