Hmmm, never thought about that before. I usually try for as many kids as possible, but like to change the status quo. Each family is different and I have had a few single parents by accident aka having a single guy, adopting right after he moved in, and then abandoning them until he died. Otherwise he would have gotten married. I've also had one family where the dad died and left the mom with two sets of triplets to take care of: the first three were five and the second three were still babies. Unfortunately the mom died shortly after the second triplets turned four and then two of the second triplets died of sickness, the last one died along with one from the first set of triplets from starvation (They couldn't afford food because there wasn't any income).