I'm the oldest of eleven kids. My mother had seven and my dad remarried and had four. I don't know my dad's kids and they're much younger than I am. My mother's youngest is 18 years younger than I so we don't have anything in common.

Now days the only time you hear of large families is if they have fertility drugs and then they have a litter.

Laurel

rember the old joke ....about big families having no T.V.....hence the big number of kids....i can never work out exactlie what the lack of tv to kids ment lol.

My childhood best friend was one of 10. They lived in a three bedroom apartment with ONE bathroom. Five kids in each room...several, obviously slept in the same bed.

Their closets were pipes with sheets hung over the front to cover the clothes. The mother was constantly yelling, but boy were those kids disciplined! Their apartment was the second floor above a bar. Two very long flights of stairs led up to their place.

The Mom and Dad smoked constantly. They did NOT have a clothes dryer...just a washer. She was at home as the kids were growing so she hung clothes out on the line.

We didn't think anything of it. There were four of us and we were all friends with her kids.

She had one son commit suicide in 1980...I really liked him!

Amazing family. But today, don't know of any large families. Actually, I do.....a family of 6 and they want nine!

This is an interesting thread. I was floored to read about Laurel; oldest of 11 children!
Haha you are funny;…fertility drugs make liters…oh man.

My husband is one of 7 siblings. They are all very different from one another. It's as if they aren't even related. They don't quarrel with one another,…they are just not interested in each other. I could never understand that.

I'm with you Chatty. I always wanted a large family. But my husband said you aren't doing the children any favour. You can never give them all the attention they want and need, and never mind the material things. He spoke from experience, but still I always felt I had so much more love to give. I would have liked to have had at least 4 children. Oh well, now we can lavish our attention on hopefully many grandchildren.

Well, my husband has two sister's and he is the middle child and they are the nicest girls I have ever met . Even thought they are out of town we all are close . Call each other and email . Now , my husband father 's family there were 14 kids and lots fo Aunts and Uncles and that was fun when we went back to W.VA to see them all at the family reunion , but now they are almost all died .

I don't have much of a family and what I do have I don't have anything to do with because they are toxic and I stay away from toxic people . I have lots of friends. I have a brother who is eight years older then me and we are not close and he is not married . He is married to his Vodka . LOl. It does not bother me though . I think sometimes you learn to convansate with lots of friends. Or at least I do .

Blessings,

I am the oldest of six. I like big families and don't believe there isn't enough love to go around. At least not in most cases. When that is true, it would have been even if the people had fewer children. I only had two children myself, but it was because it just happened that way. However, thinking by today's standards, I don't know how couples can have big families. With both parents working, two cars, the big house and all, it's difficult to afford and then there are more children shuffled off to babysitters/day care. And then, there's college. Today, having two children is probably a big family.

Large families... Well, they are not so common these days, but I know someone who is definitely on the road to having a large fam. This young couple has already 4 young ones to feed. Not sure that they will stop at 4 either.

My son once joked that he wants 12 kids! I just said: Well, you better study hard and get a good paying job to sustain them all! He has BIG plans, as you can imagine!