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Half Of Americans Now Want A Big Family, According To A New Poll
Is it possible that the family unit is back (and possibly here to stay)? Maybe so. The days of a preference for having two or fewer children might be becoming a thing of the past, a new poll suggests.
By Mia C. Gonzalez4 min read
Many millennials will tell you that when it comes to family size, smaller is generally preferable – if they even decide to have children, that is. A Pew Research poll from just two years ago found that 44% of adults from 18 to 49 said they were not terribly likely to have children – a 7% increase from the same poll conducted just three years before that, in 2018. But it wasn’t always this way.