when i was growing up, my family of 7 kids was small. Most of the people I knew had 8, 10, 12 kids. (Irish Catholic). Ours was small with "only 7 kids".

Now I agree that any more than two kids is a large family.

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Anonymous wrote:These days, 4+ kiss seems like a large family. 100 years ago, 4 kids would have been a small family. I’m one of 5 myself.

Yes, but childhood mortality was higher then. You had spares, and you needed offspring to help work in the family business.

Good point. It was very rare for all the children birthed to make it to adulthood. Of course you needed 8,9,10 to help around the farm, just in case 1, 2, or 3 died from some random preventable disease (by todays standards).