Number of children

I have only 3 kids, because that's all I can handle, all I can afford, etc. But I only have one sister, six years younger than me. So I'm used to a small family. It's not like the old days when families were bigger, plus back then there were more farms and such, so it's like having a bigger famiky was expected. The drop in bigger families is again, not everyone can afford it, money or mentally

There was 13 on my mom's side and 9 on my dad's side. There were six girls in our family and I had two children.

My grandmother and my late husband's grandmother each had many children and it was very common back then. Now the average is like you said 2-4. My mother had 2, I have 2 and my sister has 4.

My parents each had one sibling. They had three children. I have two. One son has two. Hopefully, my other son will have two. Two is perfect and affordable if you plan on educating them and providing everything you can.

Both my father and mother's family has 7 siblings. Then, we are also 7. Me, my sister and my brother have 5 children. Maybe the reason is , the kind of life that we have now.

Having less children helps with population control.

We are 5 siblings in the family. In my hubby's part they are 5 siblings. Most of us siblings has only 3 at the maximum for our children. While on my hubby's side , the most is 2. The reason: life is hard when there are lots to feed. So, the most ideal one is 3. My officemates who have one child , even after 5 years, doesn't want to have a child yet. The reason to is the same. I guess, long ago, life is good and easy so the parents have 4-5 children. In my opinion, it is very nice to have at least 4 children. I only had one.

my siblings and cousins only have 2 -3 children, maybe because of our experience growing up with too many siblings.

Vince is one of seven children and I have two siblings. Certainly families are much smaller than they ever used to be.

are the siblings of your mother's side at 2 years gap each? maybe,family planning was not yet introduced that time. we have a neighbor here; the wife bore a dozen children, but almost all of them are now successful in their respective lives.

We see many micro-families these days. There is just one pampered and spoiled child in many a family. Those families with many siblings taught children to share things.

We are 3 in the family... On my mother's side, they are 10. My father's side, they are 2... My sister has one child and my brother has two... Hihi

My dad has 5 siblings. My mom has 7. I have 3 siblings. If I'll have kids in the future, I just want 1 or 2. Economic reasons, probably.

I have 2 kids, 1 is a new born. But me and my husband both are the only child of our parents. Here in our country the idea of having only 1 or 2 kids is promoted. Todays youth(exceptions are there) do not have enough patience, efficiency and courage to have number of kids, though i love the idea of having as many as possible but me too find it tough too deal with it. Especially now as i am the mother of a new born and still strying to settle down, may be in future. But both my kids are daughters and we get this societal pressure on us when we have more than one daughter and no son..there is a lot of gender inequality here.