I Don’t Want More Kids

Elise LaChapelle
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readMar 18, 2021

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Even in our supposedly evolved times, if a couple makes the decision to have children, three seems to be the magical number that they’re expected to bear. When I’m with my two children, I often get asked if my husband and I plan to have another. It’s not a question that ever gets asked of my friends who have three kids; everyone seems to assume they’re done.

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Elise LaChapelle
ILLUMINATION

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