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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only see Mormons with this many [/quote]

I'm in my late 40's and grew up in an area with a lot of Mormons (I'm not Mormon.)   Back then, every Mormon family I knew had at least 4 kids--a few were bigger like 8-10 kids--but four kids was by far the most common number.
Now, all those people that came from families with 4 kids?   They have 5.   Seriously every Mormon I know has 5 kids.
Five is the new four.[/quote]

I think Mormons used to want to be done with having kids very early--I think of my mormon relatives and they always talked about being done having kids in your 20s. But now I see more and more young mormon families saying they want to have kids well into their 30s. [/quote]

Except that the number of kids per woman/couple is falling among Mormons as well (I believe it's something like 3 on average). Maybe the ones who are very religious (so easier to identify as Mormon) have 5 and others have fewer, don't get married (until later), have come out as gay (which they used not to do decades ago) etc.[/quote]

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