Me, too! My brother doesn't have any children. My parents were from small families, too; big families were in my grandparents' generation.
It's just the way things are now, and for all the blaming of immigrants, the trend is the same for them. Two or three children are the norm, except for the minority who have both good health and intense religious conviction.
My parents were from large families, but health keep my mother from having as many as she would have liked. There are two of us.
My sister doesn't have any children. She never wanted them, and is doing the same things today that she did in high school and college - socializing on weekends with friends, buying stuff that catches her eye - new clothes, and "stuff". She has a great job and makes good money, but she is in the same mindset as she was decades ago - me, me me!.
I wish I could say that she is unique or different, but so many of our friend's siblings are doing the same sorts of things.
It's just the way things are now, and for all the blaming of immigrants, the trend is the same for them. Two or three children are the norm, except for the minority who have both good health and intense religious conviction.
I was at a home school cooperative event in May, and one of the ladies came in tears because she's pregnant and a stranger had stopped her when she was out with the kids, and had berated her about the fact that her family is obviously about to get bigger - she had her four kids in tow.
I tend to shrug that sort of thing off, and she probably would have on any other day, but some days it is seriously frustrating to know that society doesn't "approve" of the fact that you have more than two children, and that so many people are emboldened to mouth off about things that are none of their business. They know that they hold the majority opinion.
The idea that anyone is satisfied and happy with trusting God to give them what He thinks they need is foreign to most people today. Such a sad way to live, not trusting God.