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I do. And I'll demonstrate with a personal example.
My sister has wanted a baby very, very badly for as long as anyone can remember(I would expect her to have about 4 children and have well founded reasons that I don't think need to be explained in any significant detail to be considered reasonable). My parents thought getting her a cute dog would be a good way to scratch that urge at the beginning of adolescence but no, she regularly got mistaken for being the mom of, say, little cousins or occasionally kids she was babysitting... even in the presence of that cute dog.
Having 3+ children is not the done thing in her social circle and she went against her in-laws pressure, and to a lesser extent, our mom's, to take actions which militate in the direction of having 3+ children, largely because that is what she wants to do. If this personality trait is genetic(and, anecdata, but one cousin decided to practice his French by moving to Louisiana and getting a job at a Cajun-French revival preschool, turning down an internship in his chosen field to do so, and I occupy a volunteer position coaching fundamentalist boys, and mom's an elementary school teacher, and one aunt will nearly get into knife fights to hold the baby at social gatherings).
Yes, it's an anecdatum. But I don't know that anyone has actually done any high quality studies, so YMMV.
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