Yup.Not just that. Conservatives tend to believe in traditional families. Not all, but a much higher percentage will plan a family around a mother at home with a father working on financial stability.
As you move left there is an increase in both parents being more career oriented leading to family building being postponed.
But your point is spot on as well. We aren’t planning on more kids. We’ve made replacements for ourselves. Youngest is 9 and we don’t plan on another. When they get moved out we go back to “us time”. But if my wife were to tell me she was pregnant we would start the ride all over again.
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My ex and I only planed the 2nd. 1st, 3rd and 4th were accidental blessings.
When she was pregnant, the MIL offered to pay for an abortion because, as she put it, "could not afford another mouth to feed".
As I took the wife and kids out the door I told her that if my wife was stupid enough to have one and her family helped, it would be the last thing they regretted.
It was never brought up again until about six years later after we divorced. She was damned glad for my decision once she got to know the boy. Even thanked me for the decision I made.
She was a strange woman.
There is always enough love for another kid. The material things can be adjusted as needed.
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