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The people who ask you why you aren't having more kids are the same people who will ask you any number of personal, invasive questions. Believe me, I've had complete strangers come up to me and tell me I'm doing something wrong in regards to my kid (one time I was holding her in a restaurant parking lot waiting for the car and she didn't have shoes on. It was 60 degrees out and she was outside for all of 2 minutes, but in that short time, some lady drove up and yelled at me for endangering my kids life. WTF?)
I have no problem if you want just 1 kid. "Only Child Syndrome" isn't a myth, but it isn't applicable to everyone. My cousin is an only child, and she was always surrounded by friends and family. The only time I ever heard her say she wished she had a sibling was 10 years ago when her father passed away. She wished she had someone to share her grief with (besides her mom).
Then again, my wife's cousin is a total brat, and I had knew a guy in college who was the poster child for "only child syndrome." I think most people's idea with multiple kids is that they will be forced to learn to compromise, share and genreally understand that they aren't the center of the universe. These values can be taught to only children as well so long as you don't dote on them and treat them like they are the center of the universe.
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