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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think up to a point it's fine and good to have older kids help with younger ones, provided the older boys have to help, too. Those are good life skills to learn.

I suspect the reason moms with four or more are happier is that most American don't have four kids unless they are some weird religion OR they LOVE having kids. So if you're choosing to have four kids, you probably dig being a mom. I don't think it's that having four kids makes you happier.

[b]I am the youngest of three and I think it's a bad number. Too much two on one triangulations happen.[/b] And my somewhat parentified older sister is still bossy and annoying even though we are all adults now. She still expects to be in charge.

Tim Carney sure as heck didn't carry four kids and give birth to them himself. Ugh.[/quote]

My mom goes around telling people to have even numbers of kids. She had three girls. [/quote]

I have 2 of the same gender close in age and then a large age gap followed by a child of the opposite gender. My older 2 play together and are close due to age/interest similarities. And the baby of the family is so much younger and into her own things that we just don’t get the 2:1 dynamics some posters are talking about. I could see how 3 close together could lead to infighting, but I think 3 with a gap is great. I know several other families with a similar breakdown who are really happy with it.[/quote]

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