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View Poll Results: How many is too many?
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1. Kids are not worth the mess and aggrevation
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2 (single children are best)
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3 (a pair is sufficent)
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4 (one middle child is enough)
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5 (2 pair is jut fine)
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6 (quintuplets are hard enough )
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2.94% |
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6-10 (we like big families, but not that big)
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2.94% |
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10+ (well, until you get one per finger, its no fun!)
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8.82% |
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No such thing as too mnay kids! I love them all
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2.94% |
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I want to have a bananakind!
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May 15, 2003, 20:13
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How many is too many?
with the growing list of fathers, i guess more people can speak from experience. The question is, how many kids are TOO MANY kids?
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May 15, 2003, 20:18
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Deity
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I've thought about this alot and the conclusion I've reached is that four is the right number. Two boys and two girls. Any more and you can't all fit in the family SUV. 
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May 15, 2003, 20:20
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I come from a family of four. Definately not too much.
More then six would be difficult to manage for parents, but kids would have great fun 
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May 15, 2003, 20:22
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I would prefer 2, one of each or perhaps 2 girls. Having an even amount of children works well in the Sims, why not in real life too?
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May 15, 2003, 20:27
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I'll go with the 2 by 2.
I've one daughter, and that was the wrong thing to do by her.
You know. Later on and all.
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May 15, 2003, 20:28
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Three is the best - forces the kids to develop problem solving skills ! 
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May 15, 2003, 20:38
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Now all I need to do is mmet a hottie, get married, and have a pack of rug rats.
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May 15, 2003, 21:02
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Originally posted by SlowwHand
I'll go with the 2 by 2.
I've one daughter, and that was the wrong thing to do by her.
You know. Later on and all.
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No, I don't know. Laura and I are having this very same discussion, so I'm really interested.
Laura was an only child, btw.
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May 15, 2003, 21:06
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Someday Summer's mother will die.
I might even die some day.
Should that occur, other than cousins, Summer is alone.
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May 15, 2003, 21:09
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Alone is never good. Big families 
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May 15, 2003, 21:15
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3 is ideal. That is how I grew up, and that is how my kids will grow up.
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May 15, 2003, 21:46
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Originally posted by Uncle Sparky
Three is the best - forces the kids to develop problem solving skills !
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Errr....no, it forces parents to develop problem solving skills. From all the parents I talk too, three is one too many. Once your outnumbered you might as well have 5.
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May 15, 2003, 21:49
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Outnumbered?
Poor ****ing teachers, if that's the case.
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May 15, 2003, 22:08
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2 or less, we need to reduce the world's population, we need madatory population control NOW before we go Malthusian and wreck the planet! 
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May 15, 2003, 22:09
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I have a daughter age 37, A son age 33, and twin daughter age 31.
We went from 2 to 4 overnight. It was a little tough for a while.
But I have great kids.
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May 15, 2003, 22:20
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Personally? One is too many. Societally? Three is too many. I averaged it out and voted "two is too many".
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May 15, 2003, 23:18
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As many as you can take care enough is good for you.
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May 15, 2003, 23:20
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Two is way more than enough. And probably too many for me.
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May 15, 2003, 23:56
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I think a major factor (unless you're talking about 10 kids) is the spacing between them. Having more than two kids pretty close together would be quite a handful, I'd imagine. Personally, I have a brother and two sisters, but we're pretty spaced apart - I'm the youngest, my brother is 5 and a half years older than me, and my two sisters are 7 and 8 years older than him. So, by the time I was born, my sisters were almost old enough to babysit me.
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May 16, 2003, 00:10
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one of each would be enough for me
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May 16, 2003, 18:28
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I'll say as many as God trusts you with is enough.
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May 16, 2003, 18:37
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30. After that, the sweatshop's not really making a profit anymore, unless it's a major-company sweatshop, and...
Dammit! Wrong thread! Wrong thread! Where's that "Don't Submit Reply" button?
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May 16, 2003, 18:45
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Four children was perfect for me (one son and three daughters) : never need to ask yourself what you want to do with your life, you just build a family.
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May 16, 2003, 18:56
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That many daughters will drive you batty. You will be hen pecked for sure.
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May 16, 2003, 19:13
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Re: How many is too many?
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Originally posted by GePap
with the growing list of fathers, i guess more people can speak from experience. The question is, how many kids are TOO MANY kids?
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hi ,
 , too many , what , miss out on all the fun , .....
no sir , you just cant get enough of them 
holding those little fingers 
have a nice day
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May 16, 2003, 19:16
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Originally posted by Oerdin
That many daughters will drive you batty. You will be hen pecked for sure.
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Not at all. It is quite different to be the father of girls, but it is not less difficult nor interesting. And having both helps not to fall in excess of gender prejudice. As far as being hen pecked, there are wifes who know how to do that without your realizing it even remotely !
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Statistical anomaly.
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May 16, 2003, 20:29
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Errr....no, it forces parents to develop problem solving skills. From all the parents I talk too, three is one too many.
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LOL! I have 3 kids, and I can attest to this fact! A couple of years ago, a friend of ours, who only has two kids, and after observing the differences in our parenting styles, made the American Football analogy of their ability to play man to man defense (i.e. one parent to one offspring) whereas my wife and I are forced into a continual Zone Defense, and we're playing against the Rams....
Oh Lord what did I do to deserve this punishment? 
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