Small family vs large family
By ctryhnny
@ctryhnny (3460)
United States
November 27, 2012 3:37pm CST
I have a very small family just 3 kids and 4 grandkids. One of my daughters lives in California with her son, I have a daughter with 2 kids who lives about 4 towns over and I seldom see, and my son and his wife and baby live about 10 minutes from me. I have an Aunt and Uncle and 3 cousins that we never see. That's the extent of my family. I have a close friend who has a HUGE family. We used to date and I loved his family and they loved me. When we broke up I think I missed his family more than I missed him...lol. We used to do a lot of things with his family like camping and going to concerts and even went on a cruise with his sister. My question is do you think it's better to have a large family or a smaller one? Which do you have large or small?
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8 responses
@Elenakat13 (425)
• United States
27 Nov 12
I have a huge family
Six daughters , twelve grand kids , and one great grand kid
A lot of cousins a sister three brothers and so on
I think it doesn't matter if you have a big or small family as long as they love you and you love them
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
28 Nov 12
I have one sister and a brother. Both my mom and dad has 2 siblings each. I have 4 kids. But when I was younger, I only hoped to have 2 kids coz I think that the number of kids should be not more than the number of hands you have. What I mean is, keeping a small family is easier to manage. But then I was blessed with 4 boys. And I am happy with that. It's just that it is really difficult to make both ends meet and I thank my parents and in laws who are always there that continuously supports my family.
@aabuda (1722)
• Philippines
28 Nov 12
I think it's not a problem of having a large or small family as long as you can afford to raise them.
@ShyBear88 (59275)
• Sterling, Virginia
27 Nov 12
Well really I don't know which is better. The more there are in a family the more expensive it gets but there are ways to save in a big family.
I have two kids now and would love to have two more in a few years. The two I have now are close in age which wasn't the plan. I don't see 4 kids being to small or being big. I think after 6 kids it's getting a bit two big but I have no right to tell others that it's to big or two small.
All I know is that I didn't want my daughter to be and only child so now she has a baby brother.
I have two brothers and I'm the third and last child of my family. My husband is the oldest of 6 kids. He has 2 full blood sisters, two half brothers and 2 step brothers so yeah he has a big family.
@ungu89 (1999)
• Malaysia
28 Nov 12
i'm not sure mine is large or small.
im the elder. so i have 4 more sibling.
6 uncle & aunt from my father side and 8 from my mother.
cousin , the least is 4 from each my uncle , the most is 13.
so i think it big. also we are very close to each other, barely seem them monthly.
i think i prefer big family. it just very happening during certain occasion.
i still have one grandmother. another one already pass away a few month ago.
im very sad because we cannot see her for the last, before we live far from her.
when u arrive, they already buried her
@sakurage123 (77)
• Philippines
28 Nov 12
I belong in a big Family.We are 8 and I am the youngest.I am so blessed that I have a big Family.And I think its really good to have a big family bacause you can share many things and you can enjoy together .If you have a small family you have limited people to talk to and its boring especially if your parents are working.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
27 Nov 12
I have a lot of relatives, because my mother was from a large family. However, my immediate family is very small currently.
I want to marry my boyfriend and adopt at least a couple of kids, but we are not yet at that point. I have considered adopting more than two or three kids, but I don't know that we would. It gets expensive to have more than two or three children; there are the dance lessons, music lessons, Hebrew school, food, clothes, etc. I want to be able to raise each child with the ability to provide them with the ability to pursue the things which they are most passionate about; having a large number of children would likely severely hamper that ability.
@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
28 Nov 12
I came from a small family with just one sibling; my father was an only child, and my mother has two sisters, that's all. But my spouse has 7 other siblings and I totally lost count how many nieces, nephews, and even grand nieces or nephews are there. We have our own 'medium' family with four children.
