31.   Each of the affected veterans could receive several thousand dollars a year, depending on income and family size.

32.   Experts now understand that the reasons behind what spoils a child have nothing to do with family size.

33.   He cites the success of population-control campaigns in Indonesia where the idea of limiting family size directly conflicted with the deeply held traditional values of many Indonesians.

34.   He said, for example, that the average family size in third-world nations had fallen from five children to less than three.

35.   Here is a pared-down recipe that is more family size than festival size.

36.   However, the report says decreasing family size is not as large a factor as some might think.

37.   Large families are the norm in the forest, and a federal program to cut family size has not succeeded.

38.   Local economies play a role, but so do eligibility rules, population growth and changes in family size and structure.

39.   Meanwhile, the power of the Catholic Church was crumbling, family size was shrinking and divorce was finally legalized.

40.   Millions of people choose to recycle, conserve water and energy, eat lower on the food chain, and limit their family size for environmental reasons.