Billie Jean's Blog

Is it a status symbol to have kids?

I know a man who has four kids. Let's call him John. He and his wife are relatively young; both are around 35. The wife is a dentist, and after graduation, she worked a year or two and then the first baby came. They decided to have a football team. A status symbol? We will see.

When their first child was born, they lived just like other people. They had their circle of friends from the middle class. Then they had their second child. John and his wife still hang out with the same friends. The pair began to…