# How many biological children do you have or you think you'll have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 1, 2013, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068 "2013-08-01T10:30:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/61 "2013-08-01T19:53:44Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > 2 > > Miscarriage > Daughter > Son > Vasectomy > Miscarriage In that order? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/62 "2013-08-01T19:54:18Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > In that order? Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/63 "2013-08-01T20:10:23Z")
Zero. None now, and tubes tied in the hopes of none ever. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/64 "2013-08-01T20:14:21Z")
We have one, a three year old boy. We would like to have more but it probably won’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/65 "2013-08-01T20:16:04Z")
I have a son and a daughter and that is enough for me. Occasionally my wife mentions that she’d like another one and then I have to remind her that two is more than enough. She once posted on Facebook about another kid and got a lot of “yeah go for it!” responses that I was compelled to respond as well with a comment that went something like this… (cue the flashback sound and wavy lines) > [@](#): > > Of course I risk of infuriating all the “yeses” out there who just can’t wait to see another cute widdle cuddly baby enter this world, but I’d like to remind everyone that the United States has moved from being a primarily agrarian/manufacturing society to one which trades information. We no longer need many children to work the fields or assemble trolley cars, we need our children to learn and be smart so they can thrive in this information age. Considering of the cost of schooling, feeding, clothing, medical care (remember who our son is) and everything else, raising kids will consistently be barely affordable and in a world experiencing a never-ending increase in inflation and a continuing population explosion, maintaining a zero population growth in our own family just seems like the wisest decision to me. Add to that, at some point our kids are going to be at an age where we can actually leave them alone in the house for a few hours; when that very day happens, I want to take you out to a nice dinner, a few drinks, and some dancing (or maybe just a movie – we’ll probably be really tired that night), and I don’t want to put that day off any longer than we have to. Of course, all that being said, I do kind of miss that little baby smile, the smell of the butt butter, and the sight of a couple things that my wife possesses that get pretty big when there’s a baby under two in the house. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/66 "2013-08-01T20:40:49Z")
Two - 17 and 13. No more for me. I’m done. Finito. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/67 "2013-08-01T20:44:48Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Yep. Ah. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/68 "2013-08-01T21:42:53Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > I’m married, we have zero kids and we plan to keep it that way. Same here. Never had 'em; never will. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/69 "2013-08-01T22:11:58Z")
No kids, and I’m highly unlikely to ever have them. ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/70 "2013-08-01T23:23:33Z")
Zero, but I voted just as the poll was getting changed around and accidently voted for 1, sorry. Zero now. Got fixed at 24, so zero forever 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/71 "2013-08-02T00:17:32Z")
I voted for 2 but I think I may have broken the rules. I am a gay male and I am kind of hoping to have 2 children through surrogates that would be biologically related to me and my partner. So, I guess that’s actually artificial, but it’s the closest I’m ever gonna come to biological so, sorry for messing up your poll. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/72 "2013-08-02T00:45:07Z")
I don’t have any yet, but I like kids and have always thought I’d be happy as a parent; I just am not so good at making money. But I think I will manage to have one. Probably just one. No more than two. ---
**Author:** ![truthSeeker2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@truthSeeker2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthSeeker2)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/73 "2013-08-02T02:38:36Z")
The poll apparently takes out option “0” (but “zero” is fine). Votes initially cast for “0” are getting reflected in “1” now, all votes for “1” are reflected in “2” now. \*\* I have made a new anonymous poll [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=698267). kindly re-vote there.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/74 "2013-08-02T03:51:48Z")
Probably more than four, but I don’t know any of them. I made several deposits at a sperm bank back in Albuquerque for some extra cash. And when I think of my shenanigans back in my 20s and 30s, I keep expecting a little Siam Sam to come knocking on my door some day. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/75 "2013-08-02T04:30:32Z")
I answered 0 (zero). I’m male, 47, and to the best of my knowledge I’ve never knocked anybody up. Given that I’ve been celibate for the last 18 years, and nobody has come after me for child support or even naming me as the father of their child, I’m pretty confident with that 0. I did question that once. A few years ago I had a young woman coworker who was 18 or 19 years old, and she bore an uncanny resemblance to a woman I had sex with once or twice way back when I was 22. This coworker was just the right age to be the child of that union. And on top of that, conversation revealed that she never knew her father. I was a little bit nervous until I asked her mom’s name, and it wasn’t the same name and her mom’s age was all wrong. ---
**Author:** ![truthSeeker2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@truthSeeker2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthSeeker2)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068/76 "2013-08-02T04:36:51Z")
^^ \*\*This poll is redundant. I have made a new anonymous poll [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=698267). kindly re-vote there. Sorry for the inconvenience Thanks. This poll is redundant because it originally had option “0” which went away and all votes cast for “0” (around 20 votes) were reflecting in option “1” , and similarly all votes cast for “1” were reflecting in “2” and so on. \*\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-biological-children-do-you-have-or-you-think-youll-have/665068.md?page=3)