What constitutes a “large family”?

[LucieMorningstar]

Wondering what people believe constitutes a “large family”? More than 3 kids for example?

Just interested really as it’s something I hear a lot, but I’m not talking Radford family size!!

6 and said he fielded this question approx once a week. -incidentally they weren’t)

My granny's 's stock response to anyone having a second child was 'didn't you work out what caused it first time around' or didn't you tell him to get off the Birmingham train at Aston? '

I think there have been a few AMAs on large families

'Ask me anything' threads on the 'Ask me anything' board

2+

More than two I mean :)

Looks like £780 per year on an income of 27k before tax count, £1044 on £30k net. 27k net is 21,784 gross, so another £780 off that per year isn't nothing, it's easily enough to pay for a holiday, and close to the price of an annual bus only travel card in London, meaning a year's transport to work... I take your point that it's not like many other forms of debt, but it's not nothing, and we didn't have to think about or account for it.

www.studentloanrepayment.co.uk/portal/page?_pageid=93,6678490&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL sorry, meant to say that's where I saw the figure

www.gov.uk/government/publications/nursing-degree-apprenticeships-factsheet/nursing-degree-apprenticeship-factsheet#eligibility-to-become-a-nursing-degree-apprentice

I think it's worth while for a lot of young people to think creatively about alternatives to paying to do a degree.

Not always - sometimes a degree at a traditional university is absolutely right.

It's crazy to push 50% of kids into uni though. There all sorts of reasons for it, prom political agendas to parental egos, it isn't always the right choice for the 18 year old. Certainly not for 50% of the entire population.

a BBC article on pointless degree taking

Blue

I'd contest the notion that the degrees are useless, particular in the first two cases, competitive fields, yes but not 'useless' just because three individuals failed to make use of them or were unable to do so.

Emperor I don't actually think degrees are useless. I have 2; I've used one intermittently and the other never, but I didn't pay for either.

My point is that if 50% of the population are doing degrees some of those degrees are a waste of time and money, unless you value the social experience very highly.

50% of the population are not academic enough to do a meaningful degree, and kids can go to uni with Us now. 50% of jobs do not require graduates. Almost half of all graduates are in non graduate jobs.

Some degrees are waste paper. Not all, obviously!

Every single MN er ist expecting all their kids to go to uni. Many of those kids would be better advised getting a vocational qualification in a shortage area.

4+

There are a lot of assumptions here.

5 children and we have always financed them completely ourselves. fAnd each has a bedroom. The ones at University have had minimum student loan.

One advantage my children have had over some children in smaller families (not all, obviously) is that they've developed an easy facility for sharing, assertiveness, getting on with people, negotiating and conflict resolution.

More than 2 I'd have said, personally (I don't know any colleagues or friends or family with more than two)

I know someone with 7 (and she is helping her eldest through med school and will concurrently help her second eldest too soon - they seem to be a family where being a doctor is mandatory though).

More than 6 is a little above average in my family/friends/social circle. We have two, are planning for four, and people often ask “why so few?”.

I think more than 2 is large. When the world is already overpopulated and the UK so crowded why are people having more than 2?

2 seemed to be the norm for quite a while but now it seems to be 3. Almost all the youngish couples with children in my village have 3

I'd say 4 and over.