?When we have a kid?? I?ll say, poking for reaction, and Angela, my wife, will add without a beat, ?dzzzzzzzzzzz.? Put the sounds together and you get ?Kids.? Plural. As in not an only child.
Our family-size jousting is interesting since Angela and I are both only children, and even come from a tribe of them. Angela?s mom is an only, as are two of my cousins on my dad?s side and one on my mom?s, and two of these cousins have onlies, too. All of us are exceedingly normal people, but this doesn?t change others? gut reaction to our singleton nation. Humans are pack animals; “onlys” threaten groupthink. It also doesn?t change the fact my wife and I still don?t agree, despite our shared singleton experience. One child or multiple children"
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11 things not to say to parents of an only childTo even suggest one kid makes me strange. When asked about ideal family size, about half of people asked in North America say two children. Three is the next most popular answer, then four. Those who say no kids and those who say, like me, one, score basically the same: between 0 and 3 percent. Parents who have one kid have a lot of the same what-if doubts that come with never having a kid at all, but they also carry the added baggage of not bequea...