Why do people have kids? Most people have the first child because they want to experience parenthood and have a child to love. They may then have another one or two, so that their first child has siblings to play and grow up with, to have children of both genders, or to complete their family.

Although we tend to use the term “ideal family size”, it is more accurate to describe most of us as having an ideal range rather than a single fixed number. This can span from two to three for some of us, and from zero to one for others.

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Tan Poh Lin is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

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