Letters to the Editor
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four kids makes you a "megamama"?
Yeeeeessh.
Four kids isn't an enormous family. It's bigger than average nowadays, but both my parents are the third of four children. My aunt and uncle have four boys. My cousin has two daughters and two sons. Several classmates and friends were from families of four kids. These are middle-class people.
If there were a trend for the wealthy to have say, eight or ten kids, this would be different. But four kids...that's pretty easy to arrive at even if you're only planning for the American average of two.
It goes like so: You have a baby. You have a second baby. Perhaps you now have two children of the same gender and want a daughter/son, or perhaps you just change your mind and want three kids. And happy accident makes baby number four.
As to global warming, worry about what's going to happen when all those only children in China start buying cars...