Family size where you live

[begonia]

I was just replying on another thread and it made me think about family size. Where we live, it's very common to have 2 but no one bats an eye at families of 3; they are everywhere... and not just 3 of a kind, many people with PP for the 1st 2 go for 3 around here. I know very few families with an only child.

4 is pretty rare here though. It would definitely have shock value :) And more than 4 ... I can't think of a single family I know with more than 4.

What is it like where you live?

[alreadyneedivf]

Well I currently live in NYC--if you plan to live in NYC people think you are crazy for having more than 2 since it's just sooo expensive. I grew up in NJ though (and will move there) and there it's exactly what you said--1 and 4 are rare but heard of and 2 or 3 is normal. Tons of PP parents have a third!

[purplepoet20]

I live in a mixed type environment...

The Navajo and Hopi Reservation is about a 45min drive east of me and for them 5+ kids is normal.

Among the richer neighborhood 2 is normal. Either GG, BB, and a few PP.

The upper middle class have 2-3 and they normally have at least 1 of each gender.

The middle class families have 3-4 kids. These are the ones that keep trying for their DG.

In the farming area it varies from 3-8 kids. The families with the bigger farms have fewer kids but the famlies with tons of farm animals have more kids. Normal at least 1-2 of each gender.

My group... The Hippy Organic (upper-lower class) families have 2-4 kids. 99% are the same gender.

[purple sky]

Where I live ( SF Bay Area, Calif.) it's the same. 1 and 4 is not as common as 2 or 3. When we have my step-son that makes 4 boys for us already. I'm sure you can imagine the comments we get! And to possibly add another :sigh:

[angel-pink]

majority are pp families but i have 4 already and a few people I know have 4 but I don't know any1 with 3 how weird im uk

[RedCanoe]

about the same here too... lots with 2 or 3 kids, a few with 1 or 4, very few with more than 4.

[Hobbermittens]

Where we live it is similar to what you said, begonia. There are lots of families with 2 or 3, very few only children, and not many families with 4 or more. One family I know with 4 sort of shocked everyone when the 4th came along. I am sure people will be shocked by our 4th as well!

[Princess of Pink]

I live on the Gold Coast, Australia. Here most people have 1-3 children...you do see families of 4 a bit though. Anything above 4 is rare, but you do see them around. I have friends who have 6 kids but they live a bit further out of town (40mins away) and I live right in town.

[sixhappysons]

7 is very rare and considered crazy, lol. :running:

[familiesr4ever]

I live in Utah and 3 or 4 kids is the norm. I don't know any 1 kid families, but know some with 2 kids and they are done, 1 lady in my neighborhood has 2 boys, she had her tubes tied. The other two families with 2 kids have a pp, but I think it was health reasons as to why they stopped at two. I was counting and I have four families with 4 boys in on my street. I don't think I have any all girl families, that I can think of. I have 4, but we are trying for #5 soon. I guess will be getting the looks now :)

[purplepoet20]

7 is very rare and considered crazy, lol. :running:

But crazy is so much fun!

[TTC5]

People think I'm crazy having 4, when word is out I'm pregnant I will be even more nuts lol
Most people have 2 or 3.

[Cinss]

I live on the Gold Coast too Princess of Pink :) I notice the same as you, usually 2 or 3 kids per family. And my SIL who has 7 lives in Townsville and a friend from school who is expecting number 5 lives in Sydney.

[nks798]

mixture here as well.. I live in South GA.. small town. so, we have a lot of farmers in this area and most have 2-4 kids.. sometimes more. the upper class usually 1-2.. middle 2-3.. and poorer have anywhere between 2-8 kids.

[nks798]

gosh, that sounds bad.. lower*

[pebmcpd7]

6 darling boys, people think I am mad!!!!!!!!

[Lilian78]

2 is the norm where I live I think. Larger families are pretty common but not with people I know. I seriously know (rather than knowing of, seeing at kids' school etc.) 2 people with 4 kids. When I announced #3 I got a lot of surprise because people assumed I would only have 2.