On 11 Jun 06  19:06:35, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: families

 NB> That's where I thought you were coming from.  :)  That's only one
 NB> reason for large families... :)
 
 DC> Not when the Catholic church is involved!      

 NB> Didn't you mean to type "isn't"?  :)

Nope!  

 NB> But anyway, one reason is simply liking the idea of having a large
 NB> family.  When you grow up in one, it seems a lot more normal... and,
 NB> when your own family is smaller, but your parent's family may have
 NB> been larger, it seems more interesting.  Plus, with a large family,
 NB> there's always enough kids for outdoor games (soccer, tag, etc) without
 NB> having to scrounge up the neighborhood...  

Tag only needs too to tag-o...  


 NB> Of course, being the oldest of eight siblings, and having helped raise
 NB> the younger half or so of them, I was ready for a slightly smaller
 NB> family... 3 or 4 sounded good to me.   :)   Hubby, being the younger
 NB> of two, thought we should have 2 or 3... so we figured we'd compromise

2 or three aren't bad.  


 NB> But, my parents have 34 living grandchildren... if I counted right. 
 NB> Something like that, anyway...  :)  The largest families of them have
 NB> 5, 7 and 10, respectively...    And still no Catholics among them...

That's a lot of kids!   

The majority of the kids I know were from families of 2 to 4 
children.  But, in my extended family, there are 2 households 
of only 1 child.  

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