You can look up the survey data and check yourself. I relied on IFS for doing the work of graphing it and explaining it clearly.
So for instance here is information from Gallup up to 2013.
Here is data from GSS.
I don’t take these polls very seriously because it’s ambiguous if the “ideal number of children” includes the financial/work/time costs.
Lots of people have a different idea of what the “ideal” is vs. what they want in practice.
You can look up the survey data and check yourself. I relied on IFS for doing the work of graphing it and explaining it clearly.
So for instance here is information from Gallup up to 2013.
Here is data from GSS.
I don’t take these polls very seriously because it’s ambiguous if the “ideal number of children” includes the financial/work/time costs.
Lots of people have a different idea of what the “ideal” is vs. what they want in practice.