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@LovelyPlum: Yeah I thought a lot of kids was 'normal' for a long time! I also wanted to have a lot until I got older and realized how much work it is and how expensive it is-- now 2 or 3 sounds good, but sometimes I feel bad because I know how much I appreciate all my siblings! I was talking to my mom this weekend and she said she wouldn't have minded another one after my youngest sister but my dad thought 5 was enough, which was funny since we always joke that the youngest was an accident (aren't siblings sweet?)

My fathers wife had 6. She wanted more - when she married my father they wanted to have more, but he was so old that they decided not to.

If I had a lot of family in town and didn't have so much desire for a career, I could see having as many as my crappy fertility would allow.

My grandma had 4 kids. That is the one one I can think of.

My mom was one of 12.

@woodentulip: when we move to our Florida island beach home we will be a family of three! Maybe four?

I had an intern who's 1 of 12. They're mennonite. She's the only "contemporary" family I know that's that big - my dad was 1 of 9 and my mom 1 of 5; my inlaws 1 of 5 and 1 of 6; I think bigger families were more common a generation or two ago.

That is my age 6 kids. They have 4 adopted and then had 2 biological children.

My neighbor growing up had at least 14 kids, but as @Foodnerd81: pointed out it gets hard to keep track. My FIL is one of 8. My mom is one of 5 and my dad is one of 4. DH and I are both one of 3.

My previous boss had 6 kids (2 sets of twins!).

@Mrs. Pen: I'm one of 6, too! But none of my siblings have been crazy enough to do that. So far, I only have 6 nieces and nephews (from just the oldest 3 siblings).

But our cousins are still having tons of babies. In their case, it's religious though. No BC! Also, in their lifestyle, they kind of need the child labor.