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Since both of us came from large families and couldn't imagine not having one ourselves, we planned on six. Then we thought four would be perfect. That plan went down to three quite rapidly, then two. The Good Lord blessed us with one.
The first child tends to be the best birth control method in existence.
I have a sister who is 5 years younger and a brother who is 7 years younger. I grew up doing a lot of babysitting so was not keen to have kids at that time I guess
In my high school sophomore year, there were 9 or 10 girls who got pregnant and of course that worried my mom and she mentioned something about how I had better not come home knocked up.
I remember looking at her and telling her that I was the LAST teenager in the world who would come home knocked up because I had enough of watching kids from my younger siblings--and the last thing I needed was a kid of my own.
I changed my mind after 8 years of marriage at age 29 and had my one and only.
And I am shocked that so many people here planned on 5 or 6 - I'm guessing that is youthful ignorance and exuberance before even living on your own and knowing what it might cost to have a family...or maybe the Brady Bunch influence?
At 16 or 17, of course it's youthful exuberance, ignorance, romanticism, or the like. In my case it was a matter of needing a number to match the perfect names I'd come up with.
I was set on 5, with the last being twins despite having no history of twins anywhere in my family. 2 boys, 3 girls, I knew how far apart they would be and their first and middle names.
20 years later, I'm expecting my first in three months, doubt highly that there will be a second, and don't want to use any part of any of those names. Growing up, eh?
Absolutely none and at age 62 I have absolutely none. I am another person who was forced to babysit my sisters' children. After that there was no doubt in my mind that children were not going to be part of my life.
I don't know. I remember being a teen, 16 I guess, in Sunday School and the teacher commenting that I had decided never to marry, so I guess then it was rather apparent.......somehow. Curiously enough, of the two of us he said that to, the male now has 5 kids or so.
I guess at a much younger age such as 4th and 5th grade, when I dreamed of weddings and being married, it was probably one.
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