[octothorp]

Maybe I'm selfish, but we're stopping at one, which was our plan all along. I know lots of well-adjusted only-childs, and lots of f'ed up kids who come from big families. I don't think there's any correlation. Good parenting counts for far more of a child's mental state than number of siblings. One of the reasons that we made the choice to go with one is because there are a lot of opportunities we want to explore as a family that would become very complex if not impossible if we were to have more children. Spending a year living abroad, for example. It's going to be a lot of work but doable for us at some point, and hopefully an awesome experience for all of us, especially for our son. But I can't imagine planning a similar adventure for a family with two or more children. (Which isn't to say it can't be done! Obviously there are families that do just that. Just that it's beyond what I could imagine actually being able to do!)