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by Lisa Hymas

http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-03-are-rich-americans-having-more-kids

In Tina Fey's recent piece in The New Yorker, she writes that elite Manhattanites seem to be trying to outpopulate the rest of us:

I thought that raising an only child would be the norm in New York, but I'm pretty sure my daughter is the only child in her class without a sibling. All over Manhattan, large families have become a status symbol. Four beautiful children named after kings and pieces of fruit are a way of saying, "I can afford a four-bedroom apartment and $150,000 in elementary-school tuition fees each year. How you livin'?"

Are the super-rich really having more kids? In the last few years -- particularly before the economic meltdown -- anecdotes and frothy trend pieces on the subject proliferated. Actual data have been more elusive.

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