Why do you have siblings?

I was a girl...still am, actually.

And they wanted a boy.

:shrug:

Actually, that is true. But they did want to have two children, and so they did.

:hi:

:P

I am the youngest of 5...
and all other options were geared toward oldest siblings.

I'm the youngest among my siblings, and I'm here to poop on your parade! :D

So they had my little sister.

Also, they liked being parents and wanted another child to enjoy raising. But I think it was mostly that first thing. And they aren't the only couple I've talked to who copped to having had an additional child/children primarily for that reason.

If I ever choose to have kid(s), I'll either have a second one or pursue a foster/adoption scenario to have a second one. Because I want my firstborn (first adopted? it might go that way) to have the personality of a child who grew up with a sibling. I realize that all children have their own individual personality challenges regardless of birth order or the presence of siblings, but I cannot stand only children. (My apologies to the only children of DU or parents of on this site.) And don't bother to flame me or ask why.

Divine freakin' intervention couldn't have saved their marriage. :eyes:

But nobody ever seems to notice how devious and manipulative Good Mother Nature is, in her efforts to produce a new generation of hapless earthlings. It's a really good thing, too, because if people really knew what they were doing, lots of great folk would never have been born

Thirty years ago, a friend of mine was smitten by a lunatic: I tried to talk him out of marrying her, to no avail. It was a miserable marriage, that finally ended very badly, with ugly feelings all around. They had a daughter: she is one of the most charming and engaging people I have ever had the privilege to know. Did I give my friend good advice thirty years ago? Well, yes, but in a way the world's a better place because he didn't listen

The Kennedys, or perhaps the Wellstones or the MacGoverns. Surely my staunch Republican parents could not have spawned three raging liberals by themselves.

Cheers to them.

:)

I guess they were accident-prone.

All four sisters.

I ended up getting it both ends ;-)

Four girls and a boy. My brother is the youngest.

to kill each other when we were kids.

I don't know how that happened.

It wasn't for lack of trying, at times.

:rofl:

My kids are definitely giving it their best shot

And they were foolish enough to make two more, even after having me. :silly:

Slow learners.

falling apart even before you were born. But internet posts don't show crinkly smiling eyes, so I thought I'd better go the "Buy one, get one free route"

I find the falling apart before I was born comment absolutely hilarious. Good one!

I am a twin.

and rosary beads.

A week later, my brother was conceived.

Surprise, mom and dad!

:rofl:

Me and my 5 brothers are helping to remedy that situation.

And for what it's worth, the rhythm method doesn't work for couples who have no inhibitions about nudity.

My mom was breastfeeding kids in public places forty to fifty years ago.

Artists... what can you say?

I have to believe my parents kept trying til they got it right! :7

My sister was so cute and awesome that they decided to have another beautiful, smart, charming daughter. :D