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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]4 IS a large family. AI says that only 7% of US adults have 4 or more children, a number that stands out even more when you realize that many of those adults are likely in the same families.  I’ve always viewed 4 kids as “large” because that’s the point where the whole family can no longer fit in a car together.  I guess there’s another “very large” category that’s reached when the whole family can’t fit in a mini-van or SUV together.  [/quote]

That number is 6.  
We have a lot of Catholic and Mormon friends and know a lot of families with a large number of children.  
IMO, 6 is the tipping point where they really feel different than other families.  They have to move from a typical suburban minivan to a weird van.  The kids HAVE to share rooms no matter how wealthy the family is.  A lot of times they move to a neighborhood where they have a lot of friends that can help each other out.  So that means it isn’t just their six kids at home, but often more like 10 kids in the house and yard.   They start putting on additions to the house or unusual stuff in the yard because it’s hard to go anywhere.  
People start to think you have a lot of kids at 4, but 6 is where you are really different from other families.  [/quote]

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