This week I learned many interesting things about the family. My teacher told us that the average household size in the 1950's was 6.1 people in a 900 sq. ft. house. In 2000, the average household size was 2.5 people in a 2300 sq. ft. house. I found that very interesting that we are building bigger homes with less children. .5 children! That's not even an average of 1 child in the home!
While I was serving as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Honduras (2011), I met a family that lived in a "tin hut": meaning the roof and walls were made of tin. Their floor being cement. The house had to have been the size of the average kitchen. They had a sheet to divide it into 2 rooms. There were the parents and their 13 children that lived in that house, with 2 queen size beds and one couch. They were contacted by the missionaries 2 years before I met them and found peace in their lives and meaning to their big family. That family goes to church every Sunday and every child is not only in school, but goes to seminary or institute along with many of the children having callings in the church as well. They have no car, not much money (as you can tell from the house) and the dad works around 11 hr. days. They always make time for family and are a great example of what we should strive for: faith; faith that we TOO can have a successful family no matter our circumstances.
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