All in all, what do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have? Please just write a number in the box below.
The answers range from 0 to 7. I truncated the graph to 4 because the answers for 5 through 7 attract extremely low N-sizes, which produces flakey results. The most popular answer is 2, but we can see a clear pattern of greater happiness among women who view larger famlies as ideal. The marginal return in happiness for each additional child above 2 is small. The women who think 0 children is the ideal are the least likely to report being very happy and the most likely to report being none too happy.
Source: GSS
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