How many kids do you prefer to have per couple?

Personally, I only do one but the most I will ever do is two. One is just easier to take care of, Lol.

I only picked 4 or more because I feel like it really depends on the sims. If I have a sim that hates children, I won't give them 7 kids cause that's just cruel and if I had a sim with the big happy family aspiration, I won't let them have 1 kid because you won't be able to complete their aspiration. Typically they have between 3 and 8. (I love the genetics)

I usually start with one or two and then I slowly add another...then start thinking about another...and another...

I do this very slowly, though. I plan to always add another kid or combine some families.

Four+ I like playing the genetic lottery too much.
Sims toddlers kind of annoys me, but yet I keep making my Sims have kids. I just can't help myself. Lol. They're too cute!

I picked two but I've been known to have more. My current save, my Sim had her daughter, Selena, then adopted a baby boy, Edgar, who turned out to be black (Afri-Sim?) so they adopted an Indian child, Sumit, as a companion. Before they aged up and moved out, Selena had a bit too much eggnog at Winterfest and got frisky with Father Winter, ending up with twins Nicky (short for Nicholas) and Kris (Kris Kringle). She's still living at home because she's the eventual family heir (the goal for this family is to complete as many of the collections as possible -- so far I've got the snow globes, the city posters, the elements, the feathers, and just finished both the gardening and geodes collections)/

I like my sims to have really big families, but then I end up wanting to play every child when they grow up and of course if they all go on to have big families too, you end up with a lot of households to play very quickly and I don't have the patience or attention span for that. I'm trying to get better at having smaller and more different families too.

> @SageRainWillow said:
> Most of them are accidents. My sims make poor life choices.

how do you make a child in sims by accident? :D

I'm currently playing a Legacy Challenge, and my couple had their first kids. Such a pain and so much work, these kids. I just don't really like kids in TS4, but I force myself to play anyways, because I love restyling them. FeelsFashionMan

I prefer one or two. It's enough for me to have fun with them. And I love how toddlers dancing - it's simply awesome, I'm still laughing.

I can’t just particularly give a number but thinking of my long time 4 generation save, its either 2 or 4. But generally only two at a time. First gen had two then when the eldest moved out they had a third, so two at a time. The eldest had twins and when the twins moved out had another two (although aged apart). There was also a step-brother but he was old and moved out quickly. By third gen all cousins and family had an average of 2-3 kids with the sim I was playing having twins when I really just wanted one and so she ended up with three kids and had to raise her husbands illegitimate child. So 4. Illegitimate child moved out, had a mistake baby and a baby through surrogate. I intend for her to have two more but when those first two are old. So really it’s often two at a time. I guess.