by JH 34 Replies latest jw friends
I believe that if you have a stable family, you can have as many as you want! The more the merrier!! Kids are great!
The one thing that I HATE, though is how my step-sister did it... one kid per boyfriend, never been married.. READ: four kids from four different fathers... they all miss them terribly, and can't understand.....
she's also a pisstank...
So, like I say, have 10 of the little beggars, but be careful how you have them...
I have none and Im not interested in motherhood at all.
As many as you want as long as the state does not have to pick up the tab. I was watching this show (20/20 I think) and it showed a couple that had 9 kids. They were on the verge of eviction and have been on welfare on and off thru the years.
I dont have any children........but my mother had 12 kids and i am number 9.
My parents had 6 and I think that was far too many! I love all of my siblings but when there are that many children you don't have time to spend quality time with all of them. Since I am the oldest I got to spend a large part of my teens helping to raise the younger ones. Needless to say, I missed out on a lot. I only have one and I don't forsee myself having any more. If the right guy came along and convinced me I might have one more but that would be it. I don't like the idea of children outnumbering the parents.
~Aztec
I have two and they are way plenty right now. I would probably have two more if we had a bigger house and more time to spend with them. We comfortably can afford two, so that is enough for me. They both start school full time in September (kindergarten and first grade) and we are able to get out and do more now.
My mother was the youngest of 8. Her oldest sister was married before she [my mother] was born. I guess that wasn't unusual in the 1940s. I've got two and that's plenty for me. Fortunately my DH agrees.
Silverleaf
When my wife and I got married, we wanted to have four children. After having three, two years apart, we changed our minds.
Now, if you ask the question re: world population, I think that every couple should only have two, so the population growth does not continue.
We can not continue to double our population every 50 years without extreme consequences.
I come from a family of 7 boys.
I have 2 older half-brothers; then there is me (the eldest) of the full blooded unit of 5.
I did have a sister, she died in 1967. My baby brother was a twin, only 1 surviving.
So, there would have been 9 had they all survived.
My father's family is 5 boys / 2 girls. My mother's family: 1 girl / 3 boys.
My full blooded brothers: no children. The half-brothers have children. One has 3 boys; the other has 2 girls. I never grew up with them, so we're not close.
I guess it's an individual thing. But 2 or 3 seem to be (in my humble opinion), enough.
I would probably have two more if we had a bigger house
Bigger house, bigger house.
