http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/fashion/08bigfam.html
Large families--freak show or no? What's a large family to you?
I wonder what the averages would be for Mormon families during the same time span they discuss in the article. I'm sure it's shrunk as well.
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In 1976, census data show, 59 percent of women ages 40 to 44 had three or more children, 20 percent had five or more and 6 percent had seven or more.
By 2006, four decades after the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to use birth control (and the last year available from census studies), 28 percent of women ages 40 to 44 had three or more children, 4 percent had five or more and just 0.5 percent had seven or more.
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