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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