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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

An Odyssey will hold 6 kids, but yeah.  I don’t get the room sharing point though because a) that tipping point is usually so much lower and b) I had one sibling and we shared a room for years and that seemed normal.[/quote]

6 kids is usually where I see people switch cars.  
I guess what I meant with the room sharing is that even my friends who make 7 figures still have their kids share rooms when they get to six kids.   You can get a five bedroom house.  And you and squeeze a sixth bedroom out of it.  But can’t get a house with 7 bedrooms unless it’s some mansion on a ton of acerage, and that doesn’t really appeal to people who want to have a lot of kids running in and out of their house all day.  
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The thing people tend to forget is that you can have six kids but they aren't six babies.  With six kids, chances are that one of them will be almost out of the house by the time you have all six in the separate-room-needing-territory. With smart spacing, you won't have all six in the house at the same time unless maybe for a short while.[/quote]

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