It's back to bigger families.

Sunday Telegraph

By social affairs writer SHARRI MARKSON
March 13, 2005

FAMILIES of four children or more will become more common over the next 10 years as part of a return to traditional values, experts say.
New figures show the number of Australian women giving birth to twins or triplets has almost doubled in two decades, with 4067 multiple births occurring in 2003.
University of Western Sydney urban sociologist Professor Michael Bounds said age would no longer limit family size, with more women giving birth in their thirties and forties.
"Women's fertility period has been extended and over the next decade we can expect some increase in family size," he said.
"There is an increased use of assisted reproductive technology which resulted in a doubling of multiple births in 10 years.
"Given that we have our highest rates of reproduction now in the age bracket of 30-34, and a major increase in the birth rates in 35-39, we can expect an increase in larger families from older women.
"It is becoming more culturally acceptable for women to engage in assisted reproductive technology and prolong their reproductive age.
"There is a general trend to move beyond two children, which has been the stopping point, towards larger families of three or four children.
"People are inclined to have larger families if they feel they are able to support them."
The Australia Institute research fellow Richard Denniss said Australia will be divided between couples who have no children and large families.
Demographer Bernard Salt said the larger families are springing up in Sydney's urban fringe and can be seen through the growth of "mcmansions".
"The larger rambling houses are becoming more popular in the edge of Sydney where there is ample space. It is almost like a status symbol," he said.

Suzanne Brown, 39, from Seaforth, is a mother of four - nine-year-old Briella, Jordana, seven, Teneal, six and one-year-old Jatali. She said her household was busy and hectic, but "I have a loving, big household, I couldn't see it any other way".
"My husband wanted six children but I said four was enough. All the girls complement each other and they have different personalities."
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