I actually am not sure if I know anyone in my generation that has more than two kids! There is probably a three kid family that I'm forgetting though. Please note that I don't know many people!
My parents had four kids, which seems like both a lot and a little.
What is the biggest family that you know personally:
a. In your group of friends
b. Including your parent's generation
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
I can think of a few friends with 3 but that seems to be the max. My dad came from a family of 8 so I guess that is the most I know of in that generation.
cherry / 144 posts
in my group of friends - 3 and they are wanting a 4th. not sure about my parent's generation but my sister in law is the youngest of 10!
clementine / 861 posts
A friend of mine has 7 siblings (6 boys, 2 girls). I think 2 or 3 is the max for my friends' kids.
cherry / 168 posts
I grew up with a family that had 9 kids. The parents fully admitted they wanted to keep going until they had a boy.
Ana, Bettina, Christina, Melissa, Mikaela, Laura, Nina, Alfredo and Roberto. They got two!
Growing up I was OBSESSED with going to their house. There was always a baby to hold!
persimmon / 1341 posts
My deck might be a little stacked since I have Amish relatives but it's not uncommon for relatives of mine to have 6, 7, 8, etc. kids. That's just how it is in their culture. Excluding Amish relatives I know of multiple families that have 4 and 5 kids each. I think that might be attributed to being a Baptist and living in the Midwest
cherry / 230 posts
My SO is the oldest of four, and they have 3 step-brothers. Everyone has spouses and children. Christmas is fuuuuuuun at their house 
My maternal grandfather was the youngest of 7. And the only boy. Would have been 8, but they had a brother who was stillborn.
I, however, am an only child, lol.
cherry / 106 posts
I'm 7 of 12 kids. My family including parents, son, daugthers, son in laws, daugther in laws and grandkids makes 54 of us not including the two babies on the way next year.
I have a cousin in their 50's who have like 17 kids.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
My grandma had 10 kids. Husband has 4 siblings.. !
nectarine / 2797 posts
I went to school with a family with nine kids! It was a Catholic school :). Within my generation I know a few people personally who have four kids.
grapefruit / 4400 posts
Two of my work friends have big families: one has 5 kids, the other has 8 (!!!!) kids. The biggest family I know of my parents' generation would be my MIL's-- Catholic, with 6 kids.
pear / 1554 posts
I had a friend in high school who had 10 siblings. My husband has 3 brothers. Otherwise all my current friends have either 1 or 2 kids.
coffee bean / 32 posts
Mine. I have 6 siblings (5 brothers and 1 sister), and through them, I have 4 sisters-in-law and 10 nieces and nephews.
On my mother's side, I have 3 aunts and 3 uncles, 11 cousins, and 5 second cousins. On my dad's side, 3 aunts and 3 uncles, 17 cousins, and one second cousin. Between the two of them, I have 2 living grandmothers and 1 living grandfather. 1 grandmother has a sister and brother still living. My late grandfather had a brother who had a huge family that I don't know.
DH has 2 brothers, 2 sisters-in-law, 4 nephews, 2 aunts, 1 uncle, 1 great-aunt and his grandmother. I prefer spending the holidays with them because it's way less of a madhouse (or as less of a madhouse as we can get when all 4 boys are under the age of 8).
cherry / 242 posts
My husband is one of 5 kids. One of my friends has 4, another friend just announced she's expecting #5.
kiwi / 718 posts
I go to church with one family that has 5 kiddos. The youngest is a baby & I'm not sure if they are planning on more. I grew up with a family that had 2 kids & wanted a 3rd, so they got pregnant again & had triplets! That was completely unplanned & no fertility treatments involved from what I understand, ha! Can you imagine?
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Wow, some of you have big families! My parents have two kids, so that's small, but they both are part of the Baby Boomer generation. My mom has six other siblings (seven children total) and my dad has seven siblings (eight children total). Which led me to have 25 first cousins! My husband only has five first cousins!
honeydew / 7230 posts
Well, my grandma had eight kids! So did my husband's paternal grandmother, actually. And one of my husband's uncles had seven (Catholic families!)
I'm young so most of my friends are on their first babies. One of the girls at work, though, had her 4th baby about a year ago. I think that's the most that I know of anyone having in my general age-group.
honeydew / 7917 posts
I am one of 5 girls, and my FIL is one of 7 kids. In my group of friends, very few even have kids (most outside of marriage). My husband's cousin has 3, and I think that's considered a lot for our generation.
coffee bean / 36 posts
I'm the youngest of 5, my mom is the oldest of 9 and my aunt has 8, all my siblings stopped at 2, all of my friends stopped at 1, I want 4 so we'll see how that goes
pear / 1664 posts
Hmm. Well my best friend growing up--her mom had I think 3 or 4 siblings and dad had 5; she had over 90 first cousins. I couldn't imagine. I have 3 (both sides inclusive).
pomelo / 5073 posts
I'm the oldest of 4 girls. My grandmother had 10 brothers and sisters. There is a family that I know that had 15 kids!
honeydew / 7968 posts
3 is the most i know of - friends-wise. most of my friends just have 1 siblings. but my parents came from big families - dad had 7 sibs (8, but 1 passed young), and mom had 3 sibs. i have tons of cousins.
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
My dad was one of 8, with 2 full siblings and 5 half siblings. I know a family with 6 kids, and to me that's a lot.
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