To wonder "What on earth were they thinking"?

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/06/michigan-schwandt-family-14-sons-daughter

Surely, a healthy baby is all that matters. Why continue to try and try, risking your health and considerably upping your environmental footprint, for the sake of having a girl? It must also be tough to be a sibling of 15, unless the family live in a huge house with good family dynamic and equal opportunities. What's more, the 14 sons must feel that they were a disappointment because they weren't a girl.

AIBU to think this?

It should be illegal to have that many kids.

There's just no need. Just because we can, doesn't mean we should...

Some people yearn for a specific gender, some yearn for brown hair. I can't judge them just because I don't agree.

Meh. Not my business.

I know someone who had 8 to get a boy 🤷🏼‍♀️

14, I mean it does get to a point when it becomes stupid, surly!! More than 5 kids without getting the gender you want surly you would realise it’s not going to happen without help!

They’ve been in the news before, with child 13 and child 14. And say they don’t mind whether the baby is a boy or a girl. They weren’t trying for a girl, they are just Catholics and have decided against birth control.

Someone my Mum knows did this but in reverse, she desperately wanted to ‘give her husband a son’ . She had four girls (all c-sections too so big risk to her health) before finally having a boy, she was then sterilised. She has admitted she would have continued until she got the boy or until her uterus packed in...

They are both well qualified. Different choices.

did they actually keep trying to get a girl specifically? didn't read that but guess if so they say that elsewhere?

Though agree 16 children is ridiculous for so many reasons..

I know a family with ten girls and one boy, the boy was the second youngest.