How many people in a family is ideal size ?

I think that family size is very personal. Some people prefer larger and some smaller. My husband and I have a small daughter, and we have decided that we probably won't have any more children. Firstly, I don't have very good health, and I don't think I would actually physically have the energy to look after more than one child! That would therefore not be fair on me or the children. Also we are not in a high income bracket, and we want to give our daughter the best possible education and opportunities we can, so we have decided just to stick to one child unless we come into a serious amount of money! I do however think that it is really nice for children to have one or two siblings to play and interact with, but in our situation at the moment I think the health and economic disadvantages of that outweigh the advantages. What do you think is the ideal family size Hariharbhat?

SIX! Not only 6 is our LUCKY NUMBER. Father, mother, you, wife/husband, sun, daughter. Parents give you safty, though you are strong enough, children are you hope,pride,and future...

In this heavy populated country of India, the better ideal family is "we two and we have one". This is GOI approved way of thought. Earlier it is "we two we have two". Depending upon the growth percentage it changes on the crisis volume. But actually in some countries due to lack of reproduction, Govt., offering many rewards to them including promotions. But we are at reverse side of the coin. It is better to depute some women or men(qualified as products) to those countries, to relieve from this ideal family constraints. What do you say Bhatji?

Personaly I don't want kids so two would be just right for me but as far as others go I think it should depend on how meny they can aford to take care of and have the time for .If they have the money and time for them theres nothing wrong in a big family but if they are going to suffer for it they should limmit the number of kids they have or have none .

Acording to me, the ideal size of the family is 4.two adults and two children.this is perhaps due to lot of talk about benefits of smaller family in my country of birth, india.but looking to usa scenario of low population, this can be a real small family and may be 4 kids are fine.mainly depends upon your own circumstances and of course, the economical condition.

There in no such ideal size for a family. It only depends on how ideally they live together.Generally there should not be much children for a couple because then bringing up each child becomes the responsibility of the couple as a whole and lot of resources are required to impart them good educatin etc. Present day there are husband, wife and 2 children is good.

For me the ideal size of the family is two people - a man and a woman. Yes I don't like kids :)