'Average family size is getting smaller'

I looked at BBC reports about family as an initial starting point.

I found an article by Dominic Hughes, which says that the commonly used figure '2.4 children' being the 'ideal' amount of children in a family (2 parents, 2.4 children) only really represents the families' of women born in the mid-1930's to early 40s. However, in 2009 the Total Fertility Rate was on average 1.96 children per woman.

In textiles I heat transferred this image of 2 adults and 2 children (the 'ideal' family) and I planned to bleach out the youngest child. Unfortunately, there was no bleach so I haven't yet been able to complete the sample.