A big difference between the children is good or bad?

Just three or four years ago if I someone told me will soon have a son, I would not have believed that person, I would have laughed in his face.

What we have today? Like these two miracles, which I love!

My dear little children, - however, with a large difference in age. No more, no less, and 14.5 years - here's the difference between them. Today daughter is 16 and son a few days will be one and a half years. Some, looking on my daughter, if she walks with her brother alone, accept for his mother. This is perhaps the biggest disadvantage of the situation. Still, of course, worried a little about how will be their future relationships when they get older, and my son will look at his sister as an adult woman (sorry for this turnover). My sister and the age difference was 5 years, and I looked at her, as I remember, as a wise and all-knowing personality. And then, in our case, by as much as 10 years older.

Again, in the future, when they both become adults, this difference will not be evident now, but this should go on for at least 10 years.

What motivates parents when solved on the second child?

Many of my friends also decided on a second child when the first has already grown from a young age, but perhaps such a question as the age difference, personally a little worried about them, I believe that in the first place parents think:

• of himself, "to have someone in old age a glass of water" if the eldest child suddenly go away from them;

• and his ambitions (although I don't know how with child they can satisfy);

• are "all" (friend all decided on the second, and what have I done?) - this position seems to me too stupid. The child is not a toy!

In any case, the question remains open - a big age difference is good or bad?

Audience Steemit is quite wide, I think, are among the visitor to my blog, those parents, whose kids also were born one after the other, and, with a large "margin" (so to speak). How are things going in your family? Do you know your children? Or an invisible abyss between them? Thank you in advance for your response!

Sincerely, @kssenia.