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[quote=Anonymous]You know what?  All kinds of families can be happy.  Families with kids spaced very close together can be happy.  Families with twins and multiples can be happy.  Families with one child can be happy.  Families with more than one child, widely spaced, can be happy.  Families with no children can be happy.  One person can be happy by herself with no family.

I have one child and he is very happy.  My father was one of 14 children, closely spaced, and he had a very happy childhood.  He had extraordinarily close and loving relationships with his siblings that I envied greatly, having grown up with two brothers who weren't close with me at all.

People need to stop making absolute pronouncements about what will make babies happy.  Babies are adaptable.  Lots of situations can be happy and healthy for them.  Similarly, there are singletons or widely spaced kids who have miserable childhoods whose parents are neglectful, self-absorbed, punitive, or whatever.   I have only one child.  It's no one's business to comment or criticize that any more than someone with 4 kids.

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