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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Too bad I can see beyond my hot throbbing genetic desires to the fact that my genes aren't all that special.
Why not just keep it at the number of kids you already have (or stick with one) and use the additional time and money and effort to make sure that one kid has a happy, well-rounded childhood (cubscouts, travel, big wheel, learns languages) and gets a top notch education (college) instead of having X+ kids and living on Ramen and cheap DVDs to keep them occupied?
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You're right, you're genes aren't very special and they'll probably die out.
But you perhaps did not absorb what I wrote - one of the reasons we will try to have another child is to increase the quality of life of our daughter. Why you would think that having a second or third child would decrease quality of life for the first is mystifying. Having siblings to play with, to learn from, and with whom one will (hopefully) enjoy strong lifetime relationships seems a much better course of action than being alone with only aging parents to count on and to entertain the child. I love my daughter beyond all reason, as many parents might relate to, but I can't be there for her all the time. There's a limited number of times I can play Barbie with her.
Yes, financially, a second child brings extra burdens, for sure. But you know, my parents grew up first in the Depression and then with the Luftwaffe trying to bomb them into oblivion. And I grew up in a 3-bed apartment amongst a family of five - not the high life, to be sure. But hey, we all got by, even if we weren't eating foie gras nightly.