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How many kids do you have ?

Asked by Hibernate (9091points) June 6th, 2011

Do you have any kids ?
Do you want more kids ?
If you couldn’t procreate again do you plan do adopt ?

I’m curious about others ^^

Discuss and try not to flame each other.
Thanks.

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MRSHINYSHOES's avatar

I have two little ones, aged 7 and 5, and one more on the way. That’s enough for me, though my wife wants many more. (huff-puff…huff-puff…argh)

Pandora's avatar

2 young adults. (not little any more)
No more kids. I’ll take being a grandma instead when they are ready to reproduce.
No because of the no more kids, period. But I have considered adopting but I’m afraid I am at a selfish stage in my life. I raised my two to adulthood and I feel like this should be my time.
When I was younger, I would’ve loved adopting more children but financially we were just scrapping by at the time. I wanted more kids but I didn’t want to bring anymore in this world when there were so many who needed a home.
If I wasn’t able to reproduce, I would’ve definetely adopted. I had friends who were adopted and I never knew until they told me. Sometimes they thought I may see them as not a family. I would see more love in their families than in a lot of the families who actually where blood related. I never saw kids as a blood relation thing. Its about the love, not the blood.

FireMadeFlesh's avatar

I don’t have any kids. But then I am also 20 years old, and I don’t believe I will be in a position to have kids for some years yet. One day though, I will be a very proud father, unless unforeseen obstacles intervene.

Bellatrix's avatar

I have three children. Their ages are 25, 23 and 18 and I am not planning to have any more!

I would really like to have the time to foster children.

whitenoise's avatar

Our two boys are 8 years old and on a intuitive, superficial level, I would love to have one more.

The again… my wife tells me that for any more children, I will have to look at my next wife.

meiosis's avatar

I have two girls, aged 6 years and 18 months respectively. Two is plenty enough

AshLeigh's avatar

I don’t have any yet.
But… One day I would ABSOLUTELY love to have some.
I either want two, or three. Because four is too many. And one isn’t enough.

BarnacleBill's avatar

I have two young adults, who will be 25 and 22 this year. I am not planning on having any more. There are no plans for grandchildren in the forseeable future.

Vunessuh's avatar

No kids.
I have a dog with the attitude of a teenager, though.
In the far off future I plan to adopt.

ItalianPrincess1217's avatar

I have one on the way. Due in September. He’s my first and I’m not sure whether I’ll have any more. Most likely I’ll try for one more and call it quits.

augustlan's avatar

I have three daughters, ages 13, 15, and 16 (Oh my god, she’ll be seventeen this month!). I would have liked to have more (I originally wanted 6), but couldn’t, for medical reasons. It’s probably just as well, though… three kids that close together is a handful! If I couldn’t have had biological children, I’m pretty sure I’d have adopted.

meiosis's avatar

Good luck with your pregnancy and subsequent motherhood, @ItalianPrincess1217

creative1's avatar

I have 2 I have adopted through the foster care system, I can have biological children but decided to do foster care while dating and it just turned out the first 2 placed with me I ended up adopting. I never really planned on adopting it was something that just happened but I always wanted to have at least a biological child of my own and foster care to help kids who needed it. Now I am not sure if I will ever thave the biological child.

kitkat25's avatar

I have 3 kids but along with my 3 I raised my brother’s 3 when he and his ex wife lost custody of them. If I had not been able to have kids of my own I definitely would have adopted. For as far back as I can remember I had always wanted to have kids so if I couldn’t have my own adoption would have definitely been an option for me. At my age I don’t plan to have more kids but I do plan to fully enjoy all of my grandkids.

YARNLADY's avatar

I have two sons, one when I was still a teen, and the other 16 years later. I am now the grandmother of three adult grandsons, one granddaughter, 11, and two toddler grandsons.

wilma's avatar

I have 4 children that I gave birth to.
I do not want any more children, although when I was younger I would often feel the yearning for another baby.
If I couldn’t have had my own natural children, I would have wanted to adopt.

tom_g's avatar

I have 3 young kids, all under 10 years old.
No more kids for me.

zenvelo's avatar

Two, a boy, 16 next week, and a daughter, 13.

If I married a younger woman (which I don’t see happening) I might be open to another. But it isn’t in my plans.

Cruiser's avatar

2 boys and I wanted to have 3 but by the time the second one came it was pretty evident parenthood was going to be challenging enough with just the 2 of them. 2 snips made sure 2 was going to be it!

jonsblond's avatar

My oldest son will turn 19 this August.
My youngest son just turned 17.
My daughter is 7.

For a few years there I wanted another child so my daughter would have a sibling closer in age to her. I grew up in a large family (6 children) and love having the support and friendship of all my siblings. We just can’t afford more children. I’ve accepted this fact, but it doesn’t help when my daughter continually asks for a little sister. We have to remind her there would be no guarantees she would have a sister if I had another child. She may be stuck with another stinky brother. ;)

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I haven’t any kids.I’m a virgin. ;)

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

No children, and the SO and I won’t have any, adopted or biological, by choice. However, we have discussed taking in a young relative that is in a questionable family situation.

angelique_1's avatar

I have two sons ages, 8 and 19.

SABOTEUR's avatar

Do you have any kids ?

I have 4 kids (adults now) from my first marriage.
I have 4 kids (3-teenagers, 1 almost adult) from my second marriage.

Do you want more kids ?

Google the classic tv show, ”Eight Is Enough”.

If you couldn’t procreate again do you plan do adopt ?

Not in this lifetime.

MissAusten's avatar

We have three kids. A 12 year old daughter and two boys, ages 7 and 6.

No, we do not want more kids. Our family is great the way it is, and my husband and I agree that we are at our limit in every possible way already.

I know a lot of families that have adopted from various places. I have a highly favorable view of it and probably would have tried to adopt if we couldn’t have had our own children. I do think it would be nice to be a foster parent when our kids are older or out of the house, but I’m not sure I could emotionally handle it.

erichw1504's avatar

Do you have any kids?
One on the way!

Do you want more kids?
I don’t know, right now we’re just focusing on this one and maybe we’ll see.

If you couldn’t procreate again do you plan do adopt?
Since we already have one on the way, I don’t think we would adopt just to have a second child, but you never know!

Jude's avatar

Zero
Yes
Adopt

cookieman's avatar

We have an eight-year-old daughter whom we adopted despite being able to procreate.

We would have loved to adopt another but the cost is prohibitive. As an only child myself, I’m good with just one.

If I were a rich man cue music, I would have adopted four.

wundayatta's avatar

I have two children, ages 11 and 15 (in two days). I don’t think I’d want more children, and anyway, we are not biologically capable and probably too old to adopt.

SuperMouse's avatar

I have three boys 12, 11, and 8. I would like to have more with my new husband. I would consider adoption, but our circumstances would probably make that pretty tough.

angelique_1's avatar

I do not want anymore children.

Rarebear's avatar

one, no, and no.

Facade's avatar

I have none, and I don’t want any. If I couldn’t procreate, I’d be happy about it. Less to worry about.

Seaofclouds's avatar

I have 2 sons, a 9-year-old and an 11-day-old. We would like more in the future, just not sure when yet. We’re still trying to figure out how long we want to wait in between the one we just had and our next one.

If we couldn’t have our own children, we would definitely adopt and may even do so even if we can continue to have our own children.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

We have 2 children, an almost 5 year old and a 2 and a half year old. In the future, I want to birth one more and adopt one. We’ll see how it all pans out though.

SpatzieLover's avatar

We have one. I would love to adopt a special needs child, but my husband may not be able to handle that…we are presently attempting to determine that. I do not wish to birth another child. I would prefer our son to have a sibling.

tinyfaery's avatar

I have 6 furry children, but no hairless apes. Actually, right now I have 6 really bratty teenagers that I work with.

I don’t want babies, infants, or toddlers. And I could never bring a life into this world. We might consider fostering or adoption at some point, but I would want to start with a child between the ages of 8 and 10; they are still malleable, but not completely dependent.

josie's avatar

Two sons. Two crazy sons. (is that a gray hair?)

angelique_1's avatar

I really do understand about the gray hair, I have a whole head full of them.

crisw's avatar

None, no, and we tried for a few years to adopt but didn’t succeed.

downtide's avatar

One. She’s 22. I don’t want any more. I wish my daughter could have had a sibling but for various reasons I would not have been able to cope with another child.

Ajulutsikael's avatar

2. I’m almost 99% sure I don’t want anymore. Every now and then I have moments where I think I want one more but it’s because I just miss breast feeding my littlest one.

Neizvestnaya's avatar

I have no children of my own.

If I could then I’d had made one with my current partner, had we met a decade ago.

Hibernate's avatar

Thanks for replies.

keobooks's avatar

Before I had my daughter, I wasn’t sure if I was up to the challenge. Now that she’s here, we want a second. She’s only 8 months, but I’m 39, so we don’t have too much longer to have a second. But she has been such a joy that she makes it tempting. At the same time though, everyone tells me that she’s an “easy” baby and she’s been a handful. Would we be up for the challenge of a baby not so easy?

meiosis's avatar

@keobooks I felt exactly the same way before I became a father. And my first was ‘easy’ and the second less so, but they’re both delightful in different ways, and we coped. The second is easier in some ways as you’re less uptight about it and have a bit more background knowledge…

ColoradoMom's avatar

4 kiddos, 2 boys 2 girls. Have definately had enough

MooCows's avatar

Two awesome sons who were born when I was 33 then again at 35.

Very proud of both our sons..just wonder if I will be in the old folks
home by the time I get grandkiddos!!!!

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