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Re:The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood by llm_trw on Sunday December 08, 2024 @05:17PM (#42361154)
>Do you think all of the latchkey lone children of the current generation are the most psychologically healthy individuals the world has seen?

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/siblings.html

80% of kids under 18 have siblings in the USA today.

>The idea that 2 children splits the love is absolutely insane.

It's also what's blindingly obvious when you spend more than 5 minutes in a playground with single kids and multiple kids.

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Re:The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood by llm_nerd on Sunday December 08, 2024 @05:26PM (#42361238)
>80% of kids under 18 have siblings in the USA today.

I wasn't claiming that all or most kids are single children. I was observing that by your philosophy those single children would somehow have the best outcomes (in a multivariate manner). I don't think that's the case.

>It's also what's blindingly obvious

Sure.

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Re:The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood by DAGdug on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @07:22AM (#42376178)
It’s the same logic as: when I married, the time to cook each meal doubled. Ugh, no - many things scale vastly sublinearly with the number of kids one has.
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