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Odd, I agree with you 3+ seems regarded as a big family in my circle IRL. With me starting to talk about having a third my 1 child mums think I'm mad and they're both pregnant and the 2 children Mums think I'm madder. Of course most of them have BG or GB so I kind of feel like their seeing their family as complete. If I had BG or GB I'd not beon this site tbh and I don't know if I'd want a 3rd as badly.
When I had DD#4 (keeping in mind DD#2 is an angel watching over us). In my government payments we got a small amount of money for being a large family at THREE kids?! I did not understand. I even rang them up to make sure they just paid me wrong. Nope, looks like the government classifies you a big family at 3 kids, in Australia.
I have conflicting views. I agree that 4 is not large to me because I am the oldest of 7 children so large is 7+ to me, but I will agree that in societal standards any number over 3 kids is considered a large family because you do have to have a bigger vehicle to fit everyone when you all want to go to the same place.
I don't feel 4 is large, maybe because both dh and I are one of 3, and I know several people with 4 or 5 kids, or even 8 and 10. But I do get asked "did you always want a big family" I guess when the number of children you have starts making things tricky (the hotel rooms or fitting into vehicles) then you have graduated to a large family. But personally I'd have thought 6 plus which was what I wanted, but DH has now said just 1 more, making our number 5.
Definitely think 6+ is what I consider large. 4 seems a nice number and hopefully I'll have 4.
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