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   Night-Gaunt49 said, about 12 hours ago

   Birth control, intelligent people do this.
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   annieb1012 said, about 12 hours ago

   @John Pike ** I left you an epistle at the end of the last strip’s comments….
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   dtroutma said, about 12 hours ago

   My nephew and his wife have triplets, a challenge, but Alex and Leo can handle what comes their way. Two plus one might be easier in some ways, but would stretch out the diaper time.
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   MiepR said, about 12 hours ago

   That’s really quite funny.
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   Newshound41 said, about 11 hours ago

   @Night-Gaunt49

   Some people want a whole bunch of kids. As long as they can love and take care of them and won’t turn them into freak show for some cable network, I have no problem with that.
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   gkid said, about 11 hours ago

   I really enjoy these two, my favorite characters in this strip.
   Alex and Leo. And it is a lot, she’s right. Huge transitions
   coming up. I personally think she should forget the job, if
   possible, right now. Finding housing, moving, having two
   small babies at once and taking care of them and Leo will
   be a full time job.

   The babies will need a Mother, full time. Of course they
   will need the money. I wonder if she could work from
   home, part time, maybe. Until the boys start school.
   And yes, DUHHH, it’s called BIRTH CONTROL, people. This
   is a basic.
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   Agent54 said, about 11 hours ago

   My Dad bought the record (78) Twenty Tiny Fingers and Twenty Tiny Toes, when my sister and I where born. (Middle of last century). I think we drove both of them crazy in the end. Plus I give the sound bite to anyone with twins to drive them nuts by letting the kids keep replaying the dumb song.
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   Redkaycei Repoc said, about 9 hours ago

   @gkid

   Alex holds several patents which she developed before she even went to MIT so she should have some income already. It has never really been stated how much they are worth though.
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   John Pike said, about 8 hours ago

   @annieb1012

   Thank you for the epistle. I am humbled to be compared to John the Beloved. I am unworthy of such. I simply have a passion for my country and have finally found my voice.
   

   
   I hope you have a most wonderful weekend, annieb. And may you and your family be blessed.
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    Darsan54 said, about 8 hours ago

    @gkid

    What’s wrong with dad staying home to take care of the kids during the day(s)? Maybe they can both work flex-time. And no offense, but I think Alex may have a little more monetary reward with her career. Babies need TWO parents.
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    Bailey said, about 7 hours ago

    @Newshound41

    “Some people want a whole bunch of kids. As long as they can love and take care of them and won’t turn them into freak show for some cable network, I have no problem with that.”
    -
    I love kids… and mostly agree with you… but think that the “per child tax credit” should go POOF really, really soon. There’s no good reason the rest of us should put up with funding someone else’s family planning decisions.
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    George Tirebiter said, about 7 hours ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    That’s the problem, really. Smart people having fewer kids, stupid people cranking ’em out like puppies…

    Does anyone else see the problem here?
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    cdward said, about 7 hours ago

    @Darsan54

    It’s perfectly fine for dads to be stay at home parents, and I suspect Lio would be awesome at it – but don’t sell him short career wise. In his field, he could make a pile of money. Alex, however, could end up as an adjunct professor at a local college making not much more than a Wal-Mart greeter and virtually no benefits.
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    Doughfoot said, about 6 hours ago

    @Bailey

    I hear you, and I understand what you mean, but as a childless person, I think it only fair that those who have the guts to take on the rearing of children should have some help from those of us who were too lazy, too cowardly, or too selfish to have our own children. In the end, they are all OUR children.
    
    Though I am sure there are many ways that that help can be rendered. Perhaps the child tax credit is not a good method. Perhaps better schools, with better teachers, with better lunches at a nominal cost to all. I hear that some schools have free breakfast programs for some kids and have had good academic result from that program. Considering what they may be getting at home, this last can be very important. Even instruction on eating meals at a table with knife and fork may be something they are missing at home. I don’t mind paying my share toward all that, even if the breakfast was made available to all kids, though there’ll never be any child related to me who will ever benefit from such. Nice thing about such schools and near-free meals for kids, is that the benefits go directly to the kids. It isn’t money that goes into to the parents’ pockets to spend as they see fit, on the child or not. There can be a difference between lessening the burdens of child rearing, and incentivizing irresponsible child bearing!
    
    I am little patience with those to balk at supporting their local schools because they have no kids, or their kids are grown and gone. Resistance to school funding is in direct relation to the proportion of taxpayers who have no kids in the system, as if they had no stake in the rising generation!
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    Doughfoot said, about 6 hours ago

    @George Tirebiter

    Remember the old saying: “The rich get richer and the poor get children.”
    
    It was only half true when work and a little luck could pull you through. But nowadays, with upward social mobility on the decline, and poor children mostly being abandoned to their fates …
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