What if you could order a family? Sitting in your car, you pull to the speaker and glance at the Family Menu options - The three and 1 combo, the Whacky Pack, the 8 piece bucket. Say you are really hungry, and you ordered the large family sized bucket. How many people would that be? What if you super sized your order? I'm curious. I am.I did a search on large families last night, and the sites that popped up were intriguing. Different large family forums, one of which might quantify large as 4 children, another which might quantify large as 5. And for large families themselves, many might consider their family large if they have been blessed with 6+, but by American's standards, large might be as low as 3 children. When do you officially become supersized or deemed a megafamily?
To press the issue: When is it that society stops looking at your family as "nice" and starts to view your family as "overgrown"? (Not that society drives my personal vision of family size.)
When Ken and I were at the ultrasound, the tech asked if we had any children. We rattled off their three ages, and she quickly made the comment that "You don't see many couples these days who have larger families. I think it is wonderful." So by having four children we are unquestionably "larger", but I don't think we've achieved "bucket" status. On the flip side, no one would argue with the fact that we are at the very least, a Whacky Pack!
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