How many kids do you prefer to have per couple?

Mine vary anywhere from 1-5, never more than 5 so I have a free slot for a pet or future spouse etc.

but jacque is the real freak with 3 kids but no one needs more then 3 kids

I prefer to have two, roughly at similar ages. But my female sim just re-married and now they have a combination of one child and three toddlers - I don’t know how I’m going to cope!

I tend to only have one because I overly micromanage my sims' lives. :p

Two or three usually for me - although it really depends on the storyline!

I voted 2.

Honestly, I think that most of the time, one is enough. I normally love kids and toddlers (esp. toddlers) but the toddler interacts are so darn buggy that I end up bellowing in anger and frustration at the screen. Sims just do not seem capable of following simple orders like feeding the kid in a high chair (the interaction is highly buggy) and they will often auto-cancel orders I give them relative to the toddlers (like bathe or put to bed -- I give the order, watch them start to do it, click off them to another Sim -- come back and they're reading a book and the toddler has not been dealt with ). So given the buggy interactions I'd just as soon stick with 1.

But I tend to have 2 because I play Legacies all the time and you need spares just in case bad luck befalls you, since you're supposed to "iron man" it (no reloads from bad luck/death/etc.).

Most of them are accidents. My sims make poor life choices.

I am playing a legacy, and my family tree has gotten so broad that I have restricted each family to having only one child. But sometimes if I like the family a lot, I might make them have more. But honestly, if it were up to me, I'd have each family have 2 children.

3 is the minimum.

I prefer one because: 1) I can focus on them more, 2) I don't have choose who to continue with, and 3) I tend to get overwhelmed with lots of sims. Though I like having two because: 1) I feel weird only having one child, 2) I like having a bigger family tree, and 3) I like the interactions. Just depends I guess!