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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every family is different and that is OK.  We have catholic friends with 12 children - to them the gift is life and they have told the kids that they are on their own at age 18, meaning no college or community college or whatever they can hardscrabble together.  And they will do fine.  In my family, getting a four-year degree for women was paramount (everyone had been depression era children and women unfavored).  It is what it is.[/quote]

I come from a similarly large family with similar attitude and 1/2 my siblings have struggled mightily and still do.  The others were lucky enough to get decent FA and graduate with some loans, but manageable.  It was almost a subsistence upbringing.

Needless to say, none of us have more than two kids ourselves because we don’t want our own kids to have crap lives.[/quote]

This^^^. Don't have more kids than you can afford.  IMO, afford means providing at least in-state school (or a good portion of it), a bedroom that isn't shared with more than 1 other sibling, not having to be a mini-parent from age 8+ to all your other siblings, ability to do 1 sport or more and music and activities that cost more than $10 entry fee, etc.

I'd like my kids to have more than a subsistence upbrining
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