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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Almost everyone I know has 3.

3 is the new 2 imo.

One more is not that crazy.[/quote]

I have three.  I think four is manageable with a SAHP.  With two parents who work FT, four is... not manageable.  I suppose the exception is a full-time nanny who stays on indefinitely, to manage school and stuff.  I don't see the point of having a fourth in that scenario, but YMMV. [/quote]

PP here. I have 3 too and I could envision having a fourth. We opted not to so we'd have more money to give our three existing children (college, cars, down payments, etc.). If my husband had been for it, I would have done it though.

We both work.[/quote]

Part of my reasoning is that I know very, very few families with four kids and two working parents.  Maybe one, and there's four years between each kid, so the older ones help a ton, and the mom is also a nurse and works three 12 hour shifts.

Two working parents who do 40+ hours/week?  I think that's one of those things that a competent parent of three thinks, yeah, I could do that, and then in reality it's overwhelming.[/quote]

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