How many are your family members?

@alkurishy (2068)
Iraq
July 14, 2008 8:28pm CST
Before I married, I was a member of a big family (I was the youngest one) in my country (Iraq), we are 4 females and 4 males with father and mother we will be 10, we are all old now and every one have his life, but I remember my big family now and I like to tell you about them a little, I admire what my father and mother do to make us grow up with loving to each other and caring for each other, it is hard to control this number of members family, I had realized that when I have my 2 kids and how hard to educate them and take care of them, how our parents could do that with that 8 members of one family. How many members are in your family? and how could parents take care with more than 3 members?
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33 responses
• United States
15 Jul 08
I come from a family of 6 and am the oldest. My husband comes from a family of 8 and he's the youngest. My dad's Mom had 12 kids and she married a man who had 17. That's 29 kids. I have no idea how they ever managed that many kids at once. My dad can barely remember all his siblings names as he grows older. It's crazy!
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• Canada
15 Jul 08
No, you have never called a child by the wrong name Walker, but you did call me MARY once!! haha And don't use the excuse that that's my middle ame, even though it is. It's still your ex-wife's FIRST name, and no one EVER EVER calls me Mary! hahahahaha I love you anyway. Love Your FAVOURITE (and last) wife!!!!!!
@alkurishy (2068)
• Iraq
15 Jul 08
What a big family they are, God bless them all. Thank you for your response and have a nice day.
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• Canada
15 Jul 08
I am very proud to say, I have never slipped and called one of my kids by the wrong name. My ex wife, who only had two to keep track of, would do this all the time. I know who my children are, and I know what their names are. I've never made the mistake.
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@mandykaren (2040)
15 Jul 08
my mum and dad separated while we was living in Australia.. So was my mum, brother and me came back to england. She remarried years later and he had 2 sons living with him. So ended up being 3 boys and me.. And that was difficult for my mum, she would make comments on the amount of time standing over the sink pealing many potatoes haha. Later my mum become pregnant, i was really pleased my mum had a girl, as being in a family of 3 boys and me, id get teased much. so was 5 children in the family in end. Which is considered a big family in England as the normal amount of children be 2 or 3 I never saw any of my actual dads side of family, as he stayed in Australia while we came back to england when i was very young.. He remarried and know he had children, so i have half brothers/sisters out there somewhere..
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@alkurishy (2068)
• Iraq
15 Jul 08
It is a distributed family you got, but it is good to know you have that much of brothers and sisters, God bless you all. Thank you my dear friend and have a nice day.
@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
15 Aug 08
It sounds like you did have a very big family my friend,but it sounds like it was a very loving family,my family only has three members,me,my mom,and my dad,and four if you count my half brother even though we never saw him when I was little,my family was small,and I sometimes hated being the only child,but my parents always loved me and always took care of me.
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@lazeebee (5461)
• Malaysia
15 Jul 08
Hi, my family is considered small - my parents, my brother, sister and I. My mum is a housewife, while dad works. So she will take care of us and everything in the house - of course, as we grew up, we help her with the housework.
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@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
15 Jul 08
I have a total of 10 children. 6 girls, 4 boys. Several of them are the children of the women I married, but they are my children, just the same. 6 of my children are biologically mine. I love them all of the same.
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@alkurishy (2068)
• Iraq
15 Jul 08
That is a big family you have, I hope you can handle them well, God bless them all. Thank you for your post and have a nice day.
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• China
15 Jul 08
Aha, I bet that my family is a big one as well in China. There are parents ,two older sisters and I.I am the youngest,so they care me very much! And i hate to say that, i am tired of taking care of baby.so maybe i won't have baby as well.LOL
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• Canada
15 Jul 08
I thought that China had a 1 child per family policy. I am not being critical, I am interested in understanding.
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• Canada
15 Jul 08
In my family there were just my parents, my older sister, and myself. My parents divorced and re-married. My mother married a man with no children, and my father married a woman with two children. Neither couple had ay more children. My sister got married, but she and her husband don't want children, and it is the same with my husband and I. We don't want to have children either.
• Canada
15 Jul 08
I've got 10! That's enough! I love you for you. Neither of us needs anything else to cement us.
• Canada
15 Jul 08
Thank you, Walker. I hear way too many people say that they hould have talked about children before the wedding. I'm GLAD you and I did. As you said, there really was' much to talk about. I love you for YOU and there's really no need for us to bring more people into this crazy world.
@mflower2053 (3223)
• United States
16 Jul 08
I only have 1 brother, I do have a step brother and a couple of step sisters but we are not close. I have 2 beautiful girls and I do hope to have another child but with how the world is doing it maybe too hard to have another child.
@katkat (2378)
• Philippines
16 Jul 08
My parents have 3 wonderful offspring,I'm the youngest of the three. All of my siblings are still not married including me. I think having 3 offspring for a family is just right. You can easily control the family.
• United States
15 Jul 08
There are six of us in total. It was seven, but unfortunately my grandma passed away six years ago. And one of my aunts lives in another town so there are only five of us in the house. And I live with all chicks, lol. It can be chaotic around here sometimes. Luckily, my mom only had me and didn't have to deal with more than once kid, lol. Big families are fun though.
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@Nana530 (286)
• United States
15 Jul 08
I'm also from a big family. My parents had seven children and I was smack dab in the middle. :o) I have three brothers and three sisters. My Mom was wonderful and I credit most of my rasing to her. My Dad was a drunk until I was thirteen years old and then he quit drinking, never to take another drink. I do admire him for that. None of us have ever been in any trouble of any kind nor do any of us drink. I think we saw enough of that growing up. I have two boys that are grown now, and yes I did sometimes wonder how Mom got through the days sometimes. But we all had chores to do. So I think big families learn to work together to make it possible for such a household to run smoothly. We were poor, but we were very happy. As we grew older each of us worked making a little money to help out with getting our school clothes and school supplies. We lived in the country and raised most of our food. We always had a garden and raised a few hogs and chickens and of course cows. That was a big help in feeding that many people. Only one of us went to college though. My oldest sister became a nurse. All the other's went to tech. schools or learned on the job. Life was just easier back then. I think it would be much harder to raise a family that large these days.
@alkurishy (2068)
• Iraq
15 Jul 08
Yes I think that too it is hard these days, thank you for your response and have a nice day.
@amrishkj (297)
• India
15 Jul 08
We are a family of 5 consisting of my mother, myself, my wife, my brother and my kid. My brother is doing his PG and am funding for the same. my kid has just got into elementary school. The ways prices are moving up its getting difficult to meet the expenses. I have for that sake joined up for one more job that of a Insuarance selling agent. Have been kind of OK so far in selling the same. And also have made a decent sum of money. So I think I will tide over the prices rise for now. But if any further increase in prices will again put our lives into knots. Hope for the best that there is no more of a price increase.
@Alex42692 (167)
• United States
16 Jul 08
In my family there is my mom and dad, my brother, and me. If you count pets then I have a dog too. My family really hasn't got any bigger or smaller sense my brother was born. My relatives as a whole, we've gotten 1 new toddlers to my mom's side of the family and another on the way. I think smaller families are better because attention doesn't have to be split up so much and kids are easier to control and teach.
• United States
15 Jul 08
I live in North Carolina, USA My mom and dad are still living. I have 1 older brother me 4 younger sisters and 1 younger brother so, 7 kids! Times get tough, but a few of us family members stick together. The rest are wrapped up in their little worlds and act like they think they are better than everyone else. (wrong) It's sad, because one day some may wish they hadn't been the way they are... Nice to hear about you!
@munhozmib (3836)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
15 Jul 08
Hello, alkurishy! We are a family made of four members. It's my father, my mother, my brother and I. My mother is the oldest in our family, and my brother is older than me. We also have a dog, which I consider to be a part of the family, but he doesn't count as a human. My parents always raised us with all they could give, they are the best parents. Without them, I wouldn't be here right now, I wouldn't have learned so many things from life. Respectfully, Munhozmib.
@littleone3 (2063)
15 Jul 08
I have my Mum and Dad and one sister and one brother. So that is five. But in my own family i have five children one girl and four boys.So with my partner that makes 7 of us. My partner is the youngest of 12 children. Then he has two half sisters and also has two stepbrothers and a step sister.
• China
15 Jul 08
Oh, so many family members~ We have only three members in my family. My father, my mother ,and me.Because our government have the policy that there should only be one child in each family~
@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
15 Jul 08
When I was younger still living with my parents, there were 5 of us... Dad, mom, 1 older brother, 1 older sister, then me... Now there's 3, me, my girl friend, my daughter...
@KellyMate (361)
15 Jul 08
There are only me, my brother and my mother in my house. But my family seems to be 'extended'. When i was 5 my father married another woman, and they had a child together, and she already had one from a previous relationship. Then dad left her for another woman!! Who has 7 daughters! The arguments in that house are petrifying!!
@karjyo (830)
• India
15 Jul 08
I have four members in my family- mother, father, brother and me. But as far as my mother is concerned, she has ten siblings. In those days it was possible as the older brother or sisters used to look after the younger ones. But now it is not possible because both husband and wife are working. Moreover the cost of education has also increased.