What are the pros & cons of having children?

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Raising kids is, at once, the most wonderful, challenging, enjoyable, frightening, frustraiting, awful, lovely, incredible, humiliating, and rewarding thing you can do. I wish I had more, I thank the **** I didn’t.

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