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i want to hear from people with 4+ kids. what kind of policy do you think would bump up birthrates?

I'm not sure exactly! I'd have to think

I think there's this flawed set of beliefs that kids require a lot more money and a lot more sacrifice than they actually do I'm not sure how you combat that

Speculation: I think it's hard to know how natural it can feel to have kids around if you never have kids around it does mean some cultural changes for it to feel so natural so then when people who haven't been around kids much start having them...

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it strikes me that growing up, with the notable exception of my mother, i was never aware of any parent saying they were glad of their decision to have kids.

huh! I grew up with a lot of love and an awful lot of people trying very hard to have more kids it was just so normal and my parents told me all the time how much they liked having me around kids seemed very wanted there was the cultural bitching-about-kids thing but

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i don't have the energy to develop into this whole rant but generally i think american society age segregates to an outrageous degree and we would have a lot more normal attitudes towards having kids if we just saw babies way more often, ambiently, socially

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i personally have probably spent a grand total of like 1 hour, since i was 10, around children 5 years old or younger? that's wack. that doesn't make any sense at all

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yes! that's one thing I'm looking forward to, with homeschooling not having to keep them so segregated

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