threadwalker

There was a story on NPR a few weeks ago about that, in upper-class areas of the East Coast at least, having more than 2 children had become a status symbol. The cause, apparently, was that having 3-5 children was a sign that you had enough money to support them and that this high income was coming from only one person. Very strange. It sounds like this is not just an East Coast phenom, but has spread out here as well.