Seven Weasley Children

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 45525

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "mitchbailey82" <MITCHBAILEY82 at H...> wrote:
> one of the reasons some people have a lot of children (especially 
> when all of the older children are of one gender i.e. all girls or 
> all boys) is because they want a child of the gender that they don't 
> have, i.e. they have Son's but want a daughter so therefore keep 
> having children until they get the girl. 
> So... (this is completely theoretical) Arthur and Molly have Bill, 
> Charlie and then the *missing girl*, they then decide they have all 
> the children they want/need but then a year or two later they lose 
> the daughter (for whatever reason some have suggested the Imperius!
> Arthur killed her although I don't subscribe to that idea) now after 
> a while they decide that they would like another child -preferably a 
> girl, but Percy's a boy and so they try again, the Twins are boys to 
> and so is Ron and then Ginny comes along and so they have a daughter 
> and don't need/want anymore children.

I've heard this before and it makes me want to laugh very, very hard.
Do you know these families where they keep on having boys b/c they
want a girl eventually? Coming from a large family myself (One girl
and seven boys), I've heard that sort of thinking, but it always comes
from the people who don't have the seven or eight kids. "Oh, you're
still trying for a girl?" 

Yeah, like people really would do that in real life... Honestly. In
the past, people might try for a boy (as in Pride and Prejudice), but
those were different circumstances. 

People have large families these days b/c they want large families.
End of story. I don't get this urge to look for a more "sensible"
reason for the existence of Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron,
and Ginny. 

Eileen