to ask how big your family was?

[Deliainthemaking]

Coursework statistics

past & present families
and the general view in the past families were bigger.

How big was you family?
How big is your family of children?
Do you come from a big/small family do you think it affects you??

I'd like to see who comes from the biggest :)

Perhpas Winter; can;t tell you until tomorrow, first lesson in it (well not, but first lesson since 2005 so have forgotten every bit!)

But s it's a prt time MA it's expedience I guess: dissertation comes the year after taught stuff ends, so tehy ahve to put it in there somehow. You're right, it would have been better to have alongside, but then they'd end up charging extra tuition fees on tyop of dissertation supervision wouldn't they? It's painful enough as it is .

dad is one of 13
mum is one of 6
I have 42 first cousins. MOst of my aunts & uncles have two kids, some are childless & one or two have 4 or 5.

I have one sibling and two children myself

tell me about it. I've been wading through analysis on SPSS for the last month, if I can be of assistance (unlikely, but you never know)just pm me. If you've done it before it will come back to you, the latest version is a bit different though.

When I did a research school we used a cobbled together survey, but it was at least an attempt at real data and it really helped, most of the tests make little sense in the abstract. Well, to me anyway!

Must log off and get back to it actually.

My mother, born 1965, 1 of three, one no children, other 2 children.
My father, born 1958, 1 of two, has 7 children(4 from previous wife) his sister has no children.

I was born in 1987 and have two younger brothers (1992 and 2000)

I have one DD, born 2008 and am pregnant with #2. My brothers don't have children yet.

ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts

you make me feel old, i am older than your mother!

Sorry! She is only 45 though, that isn't old.

LOL I know but I am 48 and obviously old enough to be your DC's GM. My DC's are in their teens.

My mum had me at 22 I think which she thinks was really early, but I was 19 when I fell pregnant with DD and am now pregnant again at 23. There are quite big gaps between me and my brothers who are 18 and just 10. So my mum feel really old having a 10 yo.

I am almost 39

Paternal grandmother one of 15
Paternal grandfather only child

Maternal grandmother one of 5
Maternal grandfather one of 2

Mother one of 6
Father 1 0f 4

How big was your family?
youngest of three of mother and father, 3rd of 8 with fathers 2nd marriage, father had custody of all children

How big is your family of children?
one stepson and one son

Do you come from a big/small family do you think it affects you??
Was youngest for 10 years very big adjustment when further siblings came, 5 children in 6 and a half years was absoulutely nuts and caused a lot of resentment. DP and I knew we wanted only a small family and I am very happy with our decision 6 years on.

Born in 1978 - One of two children born to my mother and father

Mother - born 1959 - one of 17 (yes, 17)

Father - born 1952- one of 3

I love having a large family (on my mums side) I have lots of cousins (100+ when including their children also) and we are all very close

Dad 1944 1 of 6
Mum 1945 1 of 6

Had 3 dcs (now 36, 31, 28)
Only 1 dgc produced from their own ungrateful offspring so far , gawd bless 'em!

Ooo forgot to say how it affected me - had a large network of cousins and LOVED it. Think it is a shame our kids won't have that.

I am one of 12. (born 1970)
My parents were both from families of 3.
I have two children.
Most of my siblings have two children, two have three kids and one has four.
Big families don't work - not enough money, time or emotional support to go around. Older children lose their childhood looking after the younger ones. Parents have zero relationship with the children having spread themselves too thin and poor relationship with each other presumably for the same reasons. The silver linings is that the siblings are very close despite the spread in ages.
It would be interesting to know if religion has a factor to play in the creation of large families - it was the motivation in our house. It made you feel that you were their because your parents felt a religious obligation rather than because you were wanted and cherished.

Gosh, 12 isn't just a "big" family! By modern standards 4 is considered big, but that's nothing like 12. I have 4 and am completely harried, would achieve nothing if I had 5+. There should be a term for going 9+... SuperSize?

My mum was the youngest and only girl. She had 2 elder brothers.

Uncle 1- had 3 boys and a girl
Uncle 2- had 2 boys
Mum- had 3 boys and a girl (me!)

Brother 1- no children
Brother 2- 1 stepdaughter, 2 sons3
Brother 3- 2 girls, 2 boys and another boy on the way
Me- Have 2 girls

My mum was one of 11, my dad was one of 6. I come from good Irish Catholic stock

I have one brother and one sister, my mum always wanted 4 or more kids, but they divorced when my sister was 3.

I have 2 and will not be having any more and my siblings have yet to have kids.

I was born in 1980, BTW

I'm one of two
DH is one of three

My mum is one of five
My dad is one of four (one died as an infant)
MIL is on of six
FIL is one of twenty (6 died as infants)

Not sure about grandparents, but they all were five plus afaik

thats the 60's and 70's though ragged, in Ireland 12 at that time wasn't unusual.