MJones

I have two older brothers, and a little girl and boy. The size of my family growing up had no influence on the size of the family I have now.

What did influence it was that, comming into this marriage, I wanted one kid and my wife wanted four (two boys, two girls). So we added them together, giving us five, halved that which is 2.5 (the average). Since we couldn't bear to have half a kid (imagine the teasing), we subtracted out the .5 and arived at two, which is what we have!

Dirty Dog

ImGod

I have 3 siblings.

The 3 boys were in a 5 year time period and I am 13 years older than my sister (10 years from the youngest boy).

My wife has 1 sister 13 years younger so she was basically an only child growing up.

She wanted a large family close in age because her mom's side of the family has 6 close knit siblings. After 2 kids, 2 years apart, 3 looks like a slim chance. And I'm not complaining about it.

beth

I had three siblings. I wanted four kids until I had two. I decided that my life would be a living hell if I had any more. I think two is quite enough and we can still afford a small measure of luxury items.

Monkeybot

How about some historical data:

My grandparents had five kids, one of whom would become my mom. The oldest son had 2 kids; oldest daughter, none; my mom had 2; younger son had one kid; and the youngest sister had none. Five kids between 'em all!

Anyway, I have one sister, and actually, I'd like to have 2 kids. Three seems like a handful (er... moreso than 2, anyway), and I'd be afraid I'd focus a little too much on an only child.

ImGod

When you go from 2 to 3 you have to switch your parenting from man-on-man to zone.

One was relatively easy, because you could tag team.

christ-on-a-stick

Although I have 2 sisters, we were all raised separately after I was 3 so I was essentially raised as an only child. My husband has one brother. He wants 2 kids, I'm looking at having one and then seeing how we feel about having another. But NO MORE than 2, no way Jose (unless by some ungodly event I were to have twins on the second time!)

lisarea

I have three younger siblings.

I have one child, my sister has one, and neither of my brothers has any.

If we keep these numbers, we'll have done our part to reverse the population growth a generation. (We're all in our mid-to-late thirties.)

I know I'm not having any more kids unless, like, I go into a coma and someone impregnates me and makes me gestate; and I can't really feature my sister doing it again, either.

The brothers, I dunno.

Not a one of us is really the marrying type, but who knows? (My sister's sort of common-law M-worded, but she'll kick my ass if she hears me say it.)

I don't think any of us were unhappy with our family, either. We're all still very close, and I don't think our relative lack of breeding instinct has anything to do with Big Trauma or anything.

Shake

Wife and I each have one sibling (me a sister, her a brother), and as of now we have one child!

I'd like one more, but the wife wants 2 more. Long story, running joke.

Ab_Normal

Some data, no analysis.

Mom: One sibling
Dad: One sibling

Produced 5 kids together. Stopped when the Pill came out, regardless of what the Pope had to say about it.

Sister 1: two kids (one by each husband - serially, not in parallel)
Brother 1: no kids, doesn't look like any will happen
Sister 2: three kids and holding
Sister 3: one kid and holding
Me: one kid and holding

Okay, some analysis on why I've only had one: I didn't get along with my next oldest sister until we both graduated from college, and the age gap between me and the rest was too great for us to really be close. (That, and I was an absolutely awful whiny little kid; I've frequently thanked them for not killing me when I was little!)

I never really had a hankering to reproduce in the first place (darn antibiotics interacted with the Pill), and I never imagined having a large family. After the fun of childbirth - I cannot personally recommend any process which includes a blood bucket - my husband and I decided that one was enough, despite pressure from my mom to have another "so they can play with each other". I didn't buy that; I had siblings, and they weren't my playmates by any stretch of the imagination.

penumbra

I have five siblings, two children.

As a matter of fact, between all six of my parents children, we have a total of six children of our own (2 with 1 each, 2 with 2 each, and 2 with no kids).

Spouse has one sibling and he has no children of his own, but two step children.

PS: likely won't be anymore, we're all at or close to grandparent age.