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How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? Family size in the United States has decreased steadily over the past century. Your great grandmother might have had eight, nine, or even ten children because this was an economic necessity to help maintain the family farm or business. Extended families often shared a household and everyone-aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents- helped care for the children. But now, when both parents are likely to work outside the home and relatives tend to live far away, large families are more difficult to manage. The average number of children in a family today is only 2.4 (Livingston, 2015). The challenges of caring for a large family were brought to national attention in January 2009, when Nadya Suleman, a single mother who already had six young children, gave birth to octuplets. How could she possibly cope with the task of caring for 14 children? Guidelines for child care facilities suggest that at least one caregiver is needed for every four infants to ensure that the babies receive proper care. This means that at least four caregivers would be needed to care for Suleman's children. If she had been living in an earlier era when extended family members were available to share the burden of raising large broods of babies, or if she had lived in another culture where all members of the community share the child care load, the challenge would not be so daunting. But in our culture today, Suleman faces an enormously difficult task. Need Assignment Help?