For Elisabeth Röhm, best known for her role as Serena Southerlyn on Law & Order, one is a very lonely number.
The 38-year-old actress lamented on her People.com blog about growing up as an only child and debated about inflicting the same upbringing on her 3-year-old daughter, Easton August.
"You see, I always wanted a big clan. I had visions of having five kids and living in a perpetual whirlwind — which so different from my own very simple only child existence with a single mother. Our house was chill, to say the least. No big fights on a daily basis. No mountains of laundry. No sit-down dinners where everyone talked over each other in a familiar rhythm. Nope, it was just me and my mom."
With upcoming roles in Chlorine, Transit, Abduction and Officer Down, Röhm hardly has time to consider an addition to her family, especially as she had to take the IVF route first time around.
30-year-old star of Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World, Jessica Alba, who just gave birth to her second child -- a little girl named Haven Garner Warren -- recently expounded on the virtues of having more than one child, saying you're only “really officially, really truly a mom when you have two kids. [With] one kid you’re a mom for sure, but two takes it to another level.”
Röhm claims her single-kid home is "a breeze" and although she isn't pining for a baby, she really just wants it for her daughter so she "wouldn’t have to do this life thing on her own, as I’ve had to".
Is bigger really better when it comes to raising a family? Would you have a second child, as Röhm is suggesting, for your child's sake rather than for yours?
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