I’ve only known two women named Janice. One has six kids, and the other eight. In fact, they’re also the only women I’ve known who had more than five kids. However, this sampling size far too small to draw any firm conclusions about.
My cousin Janice has just one, but she’d like more. She’s 33 and not in a relationship, though, so I doubt she’ll hit high numbers. I guess there’s always a chance!
I know a Janis who’s 51 – she has two sons, roughly 20 and 24; she and her new husband (she remarried about a year and a half ago) are in the process of adopting a little girl.
Ugh, that did not come out how I meant it. We are both thirty-three and have talked about how we both want more kids before we’re fourty, so while she is still young, I just don’t see her ever having 5+ kids due to the cutoff date she has set for herself and the fact that she hasn’t even met the potential father yet. But you never know.
My mom’s best friend from high school is a Janice, and had 4 kids with 2 different husbands. Janice is now 72 and most of those kids now have their own kids, so she’s got grandkids out the giggy.
Janice is Catholic. Yes, Catholics tend to have larger families, but whether they tend to name girls Janice more often, I wouldn’t know.
I know one, and while she doesn’t have any (I’d gauge her around 25), she did nanny for my next-door neighbors (3) long enough to practically be their mother.
There as a Jan(ice) at my church. I think she was sort of a sweet 80’s hippie that sang song about Jesus with us and her guitar.
She married Walter, who is quite a bit older (maybe like 30 years) who is also very sweet and as much of a hippie that a Czechoslovakian engineer can be.
They got married quite a while ago and Walter was already pretty old. They’re both still alive and quite active but sadly no kids of her own.
But she’s got a stepson who MAY be older than her, or near her age, and two grandkids through him.
She always sort of reminded me of the “real” Janis. You know, from The Muppet Show.
I’m curious about women named Joanne outside of Buffalo. Head to the City of Good Neighbors, and it seems like one out of every ten women you meet is named Joanne. It’s especially grating when you hear the name in a Buffalo accent - Jo-HEE-ayn.
I’ve got an aunt named Janice. She’s got two kids. I’ve also got an aunt named Joanne (said normally, unless you’re my grandparents, who pronounce it JO-anne), and she’s got two kids as well. Anybody else in my family you want to know about?
Neither of the Janices in the OP is. One is some sort of protestant and the other a seventh day adventist. Interestingly, they were both elders in their respective churches when I knew them.
I went out with a Janice once. She was quite adamant that she was going to have absolutely no children ever, and as soon as she could possibly manage she was going to have a hysterectomy - an odd life decision for a 19-year-old to make, I still think.