Do you think having a larger family affects your childrens education?

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Hi, i recently saw an article stating that those from large families tend to achieve less in their education due to factors such as parents not having time to read and work on homework with their kids and less money for educational resources etc. As a child with 9 other siblings, i'm interested if anyone else from/with large families has a take on this? Do you think having a large family affects how someone achieves in school?

This is one of those things where at a population level you probably can see only children do best and large families to worst, but at an individual level the variation will be huge. However I can see that larger families are less likely to get individual attention and have less resources available.

Well I have 8, two at secondary, 1 preschooler and the baby, the rest at primary. What we do as a family is a homework club straight when home from school. I set the baby and preschooler up with some games like stacking blocks for baby and threading games for the 3 yr old. My primary kids all have additional matches work everyday from their maths club on a Wednesday evening so I sit them up at the table to do that, meanwhile my eldest 2 are doing their homework/reading in their room and can ask me for help if needed.
while they are doing that I take turns to take each primary child individually for reading and their personal topic, maths, literacy etc from their class teacher. Takes maybe and hour each evening to get through their maths and their personal work.
We have been doing this since September and it works great. My eldest son can be very stubborn at not completing his literacy work so he attends the Wednesday lunchtime homework club at school and does it there.
I have agreed with him and his teacher that as it is due in on Friday that if he hasn't handed it in by Wednesday morning, he missed his lunch play to do it then.
after our hour of homework at home the kids then can have free time while I make dinner before getting into jimmies and again free time until its their turn to brush teeth and go to bed.
they are doing well at school TBH, they are either at and occasionally exceeding age related expectancy except for my foundation one who really struggles with confidence in a class of 60.
I know that I am the exception rather than the rule with homework though and some parents of 2 children at the school don't believe that kids should do any homework at primary.

well, statistics can just about be manipulated to say anything! I think there are so many variables it would be impossible to state definitively that children from larger families do worse academically.
I have 6 dc. My oldest is currently in his second year at Cambridge University, having got a first in his end of year one exams and coming 10th in his whole year.
Second oldest is doing A levels this year having got all A and A* in her GCSEs and is also off to Uni in October.
Others all also doing well and higher sets mostly. DD3 has Aspergers and Dyslexia and does struggle academically but is still making great progress for her and works really hard.DD4 is in top sets for everything and DS2 still at primary is also doing well.
so in my opinion you cant make such a sweeping statement without considering all the other variables!