Brittany Luce

Um, so lots of people actually constantly are talking to me about having a child and asking me why I don't have one already.

So I do get a lot of the shoulds or why don't choose or what are you doing and blah, blah, blah.

Um, however, uh, yeah, I haven't had a child.

And so I haven't had the experience of, um, of people.

I, I, yeah, I haven't had the experience of how people might read you when you do, you know, become a parent.

Well, one thing I will say, I have seen as the norms are trending towards smaller families.

I have also seen sort of like...

joke or trend that like, you know, that having, uh, more than two children basically is like a sign of extreme wealth.

Like what's the sort of like wealth whispers kind of a economic indicator.

It's like, Oh, if you've got like five kids and you're in New York city, I mean, I'm not gonna lie when I flew home to Michigan at the holidays and I was in the Newark airport seeing a very New York family, uh, going through security and they had five kids and each of everybody in the family had a Cotopaxi backpack on.

I was like, Oh,

And they had the nanny traveling with them.

I was like, you guys are rich.

Or you're shorting one of them.

I've seen people sort of, you know, say, oh, we'll pass a certain point and all the kids are just raising each other.

And you can't possibly give all of these kids, you know, attention or it's not healthy for them.

Which is interesting to me because, I mean, in my grandparents and great grandparents, you know, generation, like...

These are people who were growing up maybe 100 or so years ago.

It was very normal.

On my mom's side of the family, there was one generation that was 13 siblings, another generation that was 18 siblings.