What's your Ideal Family Size?

I think 4 is the best size of a family, including mother, father and two kids whether they are two sons, two daughters or one son and one daughter. That would be the best family size.

I come from a very large family... My grandmother had 12 Children and her children had 6 and 8 childern themselves... and I had some good times.. but now that all of us are grown up and out of the house I know my mom gets lonely and even her grandchildren are teens and up I know she wishes she had some little ones to tend to... Kids keep you young...if they don't cause a headache :o) I would love maybe 4 kids... I would say 6 six but in this time and age its not affordable LOL

my boyfriend and i talked about this matter and we're planning to have just two kids. we want to be sure that we can be financially stable for them and give them better future. and with just two kids, we'll be sure that we can spend enough time for them unlike if we have many children to take care of. family planning is really important not just to the poor families but even rich people do it. we need to make plans not for ourselves but for our future kids... anne

mine is a small one. im not really used to having a big family since we are a small one too by ourselves. i think having 2 kids will be okay. that should be okay since its hard to start a family now and have a decent life.

I came from a big family and I know that its not easy to raised the kind of family like us,so when i have my own,,,i plan to have a small family the same as you want so that i can give enough support for them specially my siblings.

i think teh best size of a family should be four. i think paernts can have more tiem to spend withtheir childrena nd children get more time wih parents!!!

We have four members in our family-my mom,dad,sister and me.Sometimes when i am lonely,i feel having more members,like you said,is better.It must be fun and also always there are people for you at home and ready to help when needed.

I will love to have 2 wifes , and 4 kids in order to make my dream family because i always wanted to have to wifes :) i don't know why but it is :) and i will do it hopefully in near future

I have a large family. We are 6 in the family. I'm the eldest. Well it's quite hard having a large family. Your parents can't accommodate all of you. I was independent to them so I work-study in order to finance my college years. Now I have a family of my own and I want to have 2 kids only so that I could take good care of them. I'm working mom so it's hard to balance my time so I prefer small family size :)

here in india , ideal family size is 4 big family has numerous small and big problems small is good i think

I grew up with 2 older bros, 1 older sis and 1 younger sis. We're a happy bunch and all of us are extremely close. I hope when every single one of us are married, we'll still be as close. Because i've heard alot of stories that say how in-laws can be the cause of sibling quarrels. But i have 14 immediate cousins just from my dad's side. He has only 2 other siblings, besides himself. We are all pretty close too and i cherish each other. As for me, i am now on to my 2nd kid, which is due in Oct. I don't know how many more i would have after that.. i think it depends on my financial state, i guess.. Great discussion!

We have a family of 7 - 5 kids. We spend most of our time together as I homeschool my children, and they are all very close to each other. they have their squabbles like all siblings, but they love each other and have respect for one another. They're learning how to care for themselves as well as getting an education - and they are learning teamwork. They've also learned to help and care for one another when one is hurt or ill. The older ones are very good with the younger ones, or the babies of the family. My ideal family is whatever we happened to be blessed with. If we had only had 1 or 2, or if we have more than the 5 we now have - they are all miracles, blessings and we will welcome them and love them and care for them to the best of our ability.

I would like to have a big family since I came from a small family. We are just to siblings, so a total of 4 all in all. My husband and I are trying to have a baby soon. I'd like to have twins...and i think a total of 5 or more children all in all. Hahaha...that's my dream, a big family!