As per my view smaller families are better than larger ones. Now a days the way a child is raised is far different from the way child was raised decades ago.Standard education,healthy life style,better feeding and regular medical follow up,in our country , all are available at high cost.There is inflation all around.In case of large family and small income provision of all these facilities automatically level down to substandard which affect raising of children.It’s better to have few but best rather more and average.