# Child listener continues after removeChild?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/child-listener-continues-after-removechild/251162>\
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**Created:** [February 5, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/child-listener-continues-after-removechild/251162 "2008-02-05T22:00:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![patrickjv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@patrickjv](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patrickjv)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/child-listener-continues-after-removechild/251162/1 "2008-02-05T22:00:12Z")

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I have an MC added to stage with addChild.  
It performs function “dononstop” continuously by

addEventListener(Event.ENTER\_FRAME, dononstop);

dononstop has a counter  
i++ and a trace  
trace(i)

after counting till say 100 it’s removed with removeChild, but still the counter keeps tracing even though it’s been removed

is that normal?  
P