Family size

In many parts of world, families were larger in the past because people had more children.
Do you think there were more advantages or disadvantages to being part of a larg family in the past?

Are you tired from so many family visiting?
Or vice versa, are you energized and so happy from these family events and visiting?
Would you like to be alone all weekend and do your own things?
Or like to be with your siblings?

Good memories of together games, challenges with your younger and/or older siblings, proud of having extended family and getting so many gifts on every birthday celebration. 

I think you guest right, it's about Family Size.

What do you think and like about family size? Small or large family?

Surely everybody has her/his own reasons to choose which size to like.
There are Both positive and negative, or advantages or disadvantages points for your choice.

I want to talk about my opinion.
Maybe it's better to talk about roots and causes affecting family size in the past. 
These are listed below without priority.

Factors affecting family population growth

To have workforce
To keep domination 
Lack of knowledge and training
High percent of child death in early years of their life
(maybe)
To have child with favor or preferred gender (e.g: Male gender, it's related to two first items in list)
Having wealth
Polygamy (though I think it's not for all cultures)
Remarriage

Factors affecting family population decline

Living costs growth
New needs and requirement
Expanding the area of some floors of the Maslow pyramid
Cultural changes
Government policies
....

With respect to these reasons, we can have more balanced look at the family size's adv/disadvs.

When I was child, we would go to see grandmother and grandfather in the village. It would be my best times. Gathering with my relatives and their children, my cousins, would be like a festival, yes a festival. With different types of people, moods, ethics, policies, sadness and happiness.
Hamidreza, my younger uncle would be one of the most attendant person in our family. It would take a few minutes to ask him to do anything to make children happy and entertained.
In return my father, the grate son of my grandmother and grandfather was just a governor and user to handle the works.

Now, when I think, in those times there was something that I always would like to have, more siblings. Although there were not many larger family between my relatives (all of families have 3 or 4 children as we are 3 children), but I would like to have more siblings.
I think kind of support and intimacy we receive from our sibling is so different from those we receive  from our relatives.
Even different from our parents.

Let's look at family size as a Mother.
Although giving birth a baby and growing up him or her is not really easy from any aspects, but I think it's really good to have more children. 
Count of children is not matter when you have good ones. I know it's really depends on many factors.
As a parent, you have chance of getting more support and care, especially when you got older.

Let's get back to the child's point of view.
If you born in a culture that leaded family to have more children, most probably you would have many relative, uncles and aunts and their children. It's really good and safe situation for any child to experience differences in human interactions without no concerned parents about situation and people.
Nowadays the chance of this experience for children is decreased. Of course there are other social units like Kindergarten that fill these type of gaps, but not real replacement.

When I want to talk about advantages about large family, my mind is on another subject, the Time.
Time, the most important and most tangible factor, we are dealing with it.
Lack of time lead human's life orientation.
I said about large family advantages, but nowadays  benefit of some advantages of having large family, sometimes is impossible or it's boring.

As a conclusion, large family has more advantages that benefit from those are not possible, like past.
Finally with respect to this fact, I prefer to having and forming a large family.