# How many kids do your Janices have? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583 "2006-02-22T03:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/1 "2006-02-22T03:51:36Z")
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. So, how many kids do your Janices have? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/2 "2006-02-22T03:54:32Z")
I have two Janises (Janisi?) – one had roughly 150 kids\*, and the other has three. \*a certain percentage of them were foster kids. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/3 "2006-02-22T03:54:46Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/4 "2006-02-22T03:57:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/5 "2006-02-22T04:12:20Z")
**Long Time First Time** is named Janice, and has three kids. A girl named Joan was one of my classmates in high school. She had one sibling (a brother), and their mother spells her name Janis. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/6 "2006-02-22T04:22:29Z")
> [@Susie Derkins](#): > > 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! 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. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/7 "2006-02-22T04:24:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/8 "2006-02-22T04:28:59Z")
Yep - my mom. 🙂 Three kids (including myself, of course). ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/9 "2006-02-22T04:40:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/10 "2006-02-22T05:17:50Z")
I have an aunt Janis, an aunt Janice, and an aunt Janet. Janis has one child (30 yo). Janice has two children, both adopted (41 yo and 44 yo). Janet has one child (34 yo). ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/11 "2006-02-22T05:39:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/12 "2006-02-22T05:47:23Z")
My mother Janice has three children. No, I am not related to **galen ubal** (but I’ll look you up the next time we’re Down Under). ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/13 "2006-02-22T05:55:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/14 "2006-02-22T06:13:05Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/15 "2006-02-22T11:51:50Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Janice is Catholic. Yes, Catholics tend to have larger families, but whether they tend to name girls Janice more often, I wouldn’t know. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/16 "2006-02-22T12:04:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/17 "2006-02-22T12:58:12Z")
I know one Janis, who has three children; and one Janice, who also has three children. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/18 "2006-02-22T13:40:52Z")
And then there’s [Janis](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/arlonjanis/), who has only one. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/19 "2006-02-22T15:10:05Z")
My sister Janice got married at age 33, a few months before she died of liver cancer. No kids. I miss her. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583/20 "2006-02-22T15:23:03Z")
Sorry to hear of your sister’s passing **Sunspace**. Tragic. I have an Aunt Janice who had two kids, now aged in their mid 30s. She also has just the one grandchild, and no expectation of more to follow. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-kids-do-your-janices-have/345583.md?page=2)