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[quote=Anonymous]My husband is an only, and his parents are not close to their siblings or their kids. His grandparents died before he was born. His network is basically his parents and school friends.

I have one little brother, almost 10 years younger, who has real failure to launch issues that are preventing us from having a relationship. I grew up with a cousin close to my age though, and another of my aunts (herself childless), always played a big role in my life along with my grandmother.

When we started to plan a family, one thing that was very important to us both was that we have at least two, and maybe three kids (expecting the 2nd now). DH says holidays were lonely for him when he heard about his friends' big family clans getting together, and the fact that my brother is unlikely to have kids anytime soon means that our kids are unlikely to have cousins.

Pretty soon there will be a generation of mostly only kids, who go on to have kids without aunts or uncles or cousins. Not saying that's wrong or bad, it's just interesting to think about.
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