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Originally Posted by acparker
Most folks try to avoid making kids in batches. It is not unusual to have near adult sized kids and near infant sized at the same time, depending on quantity and spacing.
My parents had eight kids spaced about two years apart.
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Ah, didn't notice that you were in Utah :-) I suspect Utah's very much an outlier in the developed world, which after all is the target market for automakers. Elsewhere, most people have two or three kids, who are spaced fairly close together. Just thinking over the folks I know with kids, and there's only one with more than 4 - and he's 101 and on his second wife, or maybe third?
PS: A bit of searching finds that a majority of Americans now think two kids is the ideal size for a family, down from four in the 1950s. 75% think three or fewer, so eight is very much an outlier:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...erican-family/