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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't help but feel some of these stories are exaggerated. I know large families where there was lots of love and small ones where there was abuse and neglect. This isn't about small/large families. The stories here are about bad parenting. [/quote]

My husband just has one much older brother who was left in charge of him from after school until his parents came home at dinner when his brother was 10.  His brother just turned the tv on and left my husband home alone...when he was 5!  Or he would beat him up or not let him eat.  His parents still say his older brother was a great babysitter.  And they routinely forgot to pick him up from after school activities, and even when they remembered, they were very late--he was always the last one.  They were very focused on their careers.

So I agree--it's not family size, it's the parents.  Two income households, single parent households--they often ask a lot of their kids, out of necessity.  A different necessity than parents of many children, but with the same result.[/quote]

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