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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lot of mommy wars stuff playing into this. Mothers of onlies often (not all!) WOH. Mothers of 3 or 4 often (not all!) don't. I personally know 2 women who had 3+ kids because it helped justify staying home, which was something they wanted to do regardless of how many kids they had. They don't have a lot of disposable income; I don't want to make those sacrifices.  Neither of us has it better or worse, just different.

Unless they complain. People who complain about how hard it is to have more kids vs one just get a "Yes, that's why I didn't" from me. [/quote]

Thank you. This is really insightful and prompting some "ahas!" for me. I both WOH and have a large family. I have indeed definitely privy to conversations where other mothers are trashing parents of only children: the parents are selfish and indulgent. I can certainly imagine a scenario in which it was a passive aggressive way to loop me into their own mommy wars.

On the topic: I rarely feel like I hear stay-at-home mothers trash WOH mothers or vice versa. I have no doubt those trashings occur, I just don't hear them because I feel like it's probably pretty clear I'm not cool with that stuff. I wonder if I am just naive and this IS that conversation.    [/quote]

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