[stkdump]

I recently heard about a survey where people on average said that they do want to have 2.something (lets say 2.4, but I don't remember the exact number) kids. I guess it is easier to prevent overshooting, but sometimes life circumstances prevent them from having as many as they wanted. That can be as simple reasons as not finding the right partner, etc. What you see less often though, is people that want to have 4 or 5 kids, which I think is stigmatized, but it could even out those that don't have kids.

[jolmg]

> What you see less often though, is people that want to have 4 or 5 kids, which I think is stigmatized

That might vary by culture, but I can't think of a time when I've seen it be stigmatized. I imagine that current generations chose to have less than 4 kids for economic and quality of life reasons, not because they see having many kids as somehow wrong.