It's surely something of a hangover from less enlightened days, no? Like back in the day implied were maybe out of wedlock and young. Whereas now plenty are in relationships and it's like "well we were putting off having kids until sorted but you happened earlier than planned".

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Parents tell older siblings this because they need the reassurance. All youngest children (especially those of us born after long age gaps) know that parents continue having children until they have the good one.

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Reminded today of this all-timer from the early days of The Internet

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I find it very mentally and emotionally tiring to not be able to accurately know how worried to be about AI and to have my worry levels change sometimes several times a day (do not reply to tell me I should be more or less worried, it would merely be your own opinion, which would prove my point)

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It was not aimed at people in the City. In fact the original concept was even dafter - the idea was that it would be played in works canteens. Eventually it grew a decent audience from two demographics- students returning from lectures (ahem just getting up) and pensioners checking their investments

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