[UCGal]

[quote=barnaby33]I’d be curious to know why woemen chose to have x or y kids? UCGal does your quick tally break down kids/family by nationality or age?

I’ve never felt any pressure to have kids, but most people seem to. I’m just curious what drives the number they envision having.
Josh[/quote]

Married younger correlates to more kids. There are a couple of us older moms that skew it to fewer kids (and hence some of the secondary infertility).

Nationality – the vast majority of the members of that board are US Citizens, Caucasian (although some are in mixed race marriages). The Canadians, Icelandic, and Israeli members have 3 or less kids.

Education also seems to be a factor. The younger moms who have lots of kids also have less education, on average. This is a pretty educated group considering it started as a Parents Place Expecting club board (and migrated to a private board years ago).

We have one member who has no kids… she’s friends with one of the other members.

Keep in mind – this is not a typical cross section. These women all have kids (with one exception) That’s our common bond… 8 year olds. (Wow – that community has been together for 9 years now… we formed when we were preggers.) It’s not a cross section because it’s made up of women of child bearing age who chose to have children who are computer literate and have access to the internet. That skews it towards middle class breeders.

Does that answer your question?

[UCGal]

[quote=barnaby33]I’d be curious to know why woemen chose to have x or y kids? UCGal does your quick tally break down kids/family by nationality or age?

I’ve never felt any pressure to have kids, but most people seem to. I’m just curious what drives the number they envision having.
Josh[/quote]

Married younger correlates to more kids. There are a couple of us older moms that skew it to fewer kids (and hence some of the secondary infertility).

Nationality – the vast majority of the members of that board are US Citizens, Caucasian (although some are in mixed race marriages). The Canadians, Icelandic, and Israeli members have 3 or less kids.

Education also seems to be a factor. The younger moms who have lots of kids also have less education, on average. This is a pretty educated group considering it started as a Parents Place Expecting club board (and migrated to a private board years ago).

We have one member who has no kids… she’s friends with one of the other members.

Keep in mind – this is not a typical cross section. These women all have kids (with one exception) That’s our common bond… 8 year olds. (Wow – that community has been together for 9 years now… we formed when we were preggers.) It’s not a cross section because it’s made up of women of child bearing age who chose to have children who are computer literate and have access to the internet. That skews it towards middle class breeders.

Does that answer your question?

[UCGal]

[quote=barnaby33]I’d be curious to know why woemen chose to have x or y kids? UCGal does your quick tally break down kids/family by nationality or age?

I’ve never felt any pressure to have kids, but most people seem to. I’m just curious what drives the number they envision having.
Josh[/quote]

Married younger correlates to more kids. There are a couple of us older moms that skew it to fewer kids (and hence some of the secondary infertility).

Nationality – the vast majority of the members of that board are US Citizens, Caucasian (although some are in mixed race marriages). The Canadians, Icelandic, and Israeli members have 3 or less kids.

Education also seems to be a factor. The younger moms who have lots of kids also have less education, on average. This is a pretty educated group considering it started as a Parents Place Expecting club board (and migrated to a private board years ago).

We have one member who has no kids… she’s friends with one of the other members.

Keep in mind – this is not a typical cross section. These women all have kids (with one exception) That’s our common bond… 8 year olds. (Wow – that community has been together for 9 years now… we formed when we were preggers.) It’s not a cross section because it’s made up of women of child bearing age who chose to have children who are computer literate and have access to the internet. That skews it towards middle class breeders.

Does that answer your question?

[UCGal]

This was posted on another thread.
http://piggington.com/new_bank_of_america_foreclosure_prevention_tactic#comment-186217

But it’s still totally awesome.

[UCGal]

This was posted on another thread.
http://piggington.com/new_bank_of_america_foreclosure_prevention_tactic#comment-186217

But it’s still totally awesome.

[UCGal]

This was posted on another thread.
http://piggington.com/new_bank_of_america_foreclosure_prevention_tactic#comment-186217

But it’s still totally awesome.

[UCGal]

This was posted on another thread.
http://piggington.com/new_bank_of_america_foreclosure_prevention_tactic#comment-186217

But it’s still totally awesome.

[UCGal]

This was posted on another thread.
http://piggington.com/new_bank_of_america_foreclosure_prevention_tactic#comment-186217

But it’s still totally awesome.

[UCGal]

[quote=ctr70]This is just purely anecdotal from my circle and what I’ve observed, and I have NO data to support this…but it seems like:

1. People are having much smaller families than when I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s (1-2 kids is the norm now vs. 3-5 kids then…my parents had 6 kids born in the 1960’s and 1970’s)

2. College educated higher income people especially seem to be either having no kids at all, or having them much later in life than the past

3. I am not as sure of trends in terms of family size and age having children within the lower income, lower educational levels (I would assume it to be larger families and having children at earlier ages)[/quote]

I’m active on a “mom’s message board”… It’s about 70 women who all have kids born the same month/year… from 4 different countries.

On that board the number of families with 4 or more kids is greater than the number of families with just 1 child. So… based on this VERY limited data source (so really useless.

Actually… I just looked at the memberlist and did a quick tally of kids/member… average is 2.3 kids per mom. I think because the majority of members have 2 kids.

5 had 1 child, and 6 had 4 or more kids. (Based on a quick tally)

Also, of the single child mom’s… secondary infertility was a factor in more than one. In other words, they wanted more kids…

[UCGal]

[quote=ctr70]This is just purely anecdotal from my circle and what I’ve observed, and I have NO data to support this…but it seems like:

1. People are having much smaller families than when I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s (1-2 kids is the norm now vs. 3-5 kids then…my parents had 6 kids born in the 1960’s and 1970’s)

2. College educated higher income people especially seem to be either having no kids at all, or having them much later in life than the past

3. I am not as sure of trends in terms of family size and age having children within the lower income, lower educational levels (I would assume it to be larger families and having children at earlier ages)[/quote]

I’m active on a “mom’s message board”… It’s about 70 women who all have kids born the same month/year… from 4 different countries.

On that board the number of families with 4 or more kids is greater than the number of families with just 1 child. So… based on this VERY limited data source (so really useless.

Actually… I just looked at the memberlist and did a quick tally of kids/member… average is 2.3 kids per mom. I think because the majority of members have 2 kids.

5 had 1 child, and 6 had 4 or more kids. (Based on a quick tally)

Also, of the single child mom’s… secondary infertility was a factor in more than one. In other words, they wanted more kids…

[UCGal]

[quote=ctr70]This is just purely anecdotal from my circle and what I’ve observed, and I have NO data to support this…but it seems like:

1. People are having much smaller families than when I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s (1-2 kids is the norm now vs. 3-5 kids then…my parents had 6 kids born in the 1960’s and 1970’s)

2. College educated higher income people especially seem to be either having no kids at all, or having them much later in life than the past

3. I am not as sure of trends in terms of family size and age having children within the lower income, lower educational levels (I would assume it to be larger families and having children at earlier ages)[/quote]

I’m active on a “mom’s message board”… It’s about 70 women who all have kids born the same month/year… from 4 different countries.

On that board the number of families with 4 or more kids is greater than the number of families with just 1 child. So… based on this VERY limited data source (so really useless.

Actually… I just looked at the memberlist and did a quick tally of kids/member… average is 2.3 kids per mom. I think because the majority of members have 2 kids.

5 had 1 child, and 6 had 4 or more kids. (Based on a quick tally)

Also, of the single child mom’s… secondary infertility was a factor in more than one. In other words, they wanted more kids…

[UCGal]

[quote=ctr70]This is just purely anecdotal from my circle and what I’ve observed, and I have NO data to support this…but it seems like:

1. People are having much smaller families than when I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s (1-2 kids is the norm now vs. 3-5 kids then…my parents had 6 kids born in the 1960’s and 1970’s)

2. College educated higher income people especially seem to be either having no kids at all, or having them much later in life than the past

3. I am not as sure of trends in terms of family size and age having children within the lower income, lower educational levels (I would assume it to be larger families and having children at earlier ages)[/quote]

I’m active on a “mom’s message board”… It’s about 70 women who all have kids born the same month/year… from 4 different countries.

On that board the number of families with 4 or more kids is greater than the number of families with just 1 child. So… based on this VERY limited data source (so really useless.

Actually… I just looked at the memberlist and did a quick tally of kids/member… average is 2.3 kids per mom. I think because the majority of members have 2 kids.

5 had 1 child, and 6 had 4 or more kids. (Based on a quick tally)

Also, of the single child mom’s… secondary infertility was a factor in more than one. In other words, they wanted more kids…

[UCGal]

[quote=ctr70]This is just purely anecdotal from my circle and what I’ve observed, and I have NO data to support this…but it seems like:

1. People are having much smaller families than when I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s (1-2 kids is the norm now vs. 3-5 kids then…my parents had 6 kids born in the 1960’s and 1970’s)

2. College educated higher income people especially seem to be either having no kids at all, or having them much later in life than the past

3. I am not as sure of trends in terms of family size and age having children within the lower income, lower educational levels (I would assume it to be larger families and having children at earlier ages)[/quote]

I’m active on a “mom’s message board”… It’s about 70 women who all have kids born the same month/year… from 4 different countries.

On that board the number of families with 4 or more kids is greater than the number of families with just 1 child. So… based on this VERY limited data source (so really useless.

Actually… I just looked at the memberlist and did a quick tally of kids/member… average is 2.3 kids per mom. I think because the majority of members have 2 kids.

5 had 1 child, and 6 had 4 or more kids. (Based on a quick tally)

Also, of the single child mom’s… secondary infertility was a factor in more than one. In other words, they wanted more kids…

[UCGal]

[quote=walterwhite]shouldnt older people be helping young people, esp if a lot of the nation’s wealth has been transferred to older people?[/quote]
At least in our house, the reverse is true… My husbands parents boomeranged (sort of) into our home.

I’m ok with it.

But I need my kids to grow up and be independent so they can support and help me when I get old. 😉

[UCGal]

[quote=walterwhite]shouldnt older people be helping young people, esp if a lot of the nation’s wealth has been transferred to older people?[/quote]
At least in our house, the reverse is true… My husbands parents boomeranged (sort of) into our home.

I’m ok with it.

But I need my kids to grow up and be independent so they can support and help me when I get old. 😉

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