the FAQ

Since our daughter was less than a month old, my wife and I have been asked the same question, in one form or another, from friends, colleagues or even strangers: When are you guys going to have another?

They’ll make it sound like being a one-child family is some sin against nature. It’s never been a question we enjoyed hearing, but over the last few years, it’s become triggering for us.

We had always planned to have two children. Both my wife and I have younger siblings, so to us, two kids is what felt like a family. A home just didn’t feel like a home if it didn’t have two kids running around in the yard, making faces at each other over dinner or arguing over what to watch on television.

When our daughter was born in 2019 we knew we would have another. After all that was the

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