Interesting

I had a ton of things to say about all that went on this past week with Elder Packer's talk, but I lost the desire to spend the time to type it all out.  Basically, as usual, I tend not to jump on either extreme's band wagon.  The worst thing in the entire situation is when people don't treat those they disagree with civily.  Unfortunately that is happening way too often and I think overshadows the issues at hand.

Anyway, while I was looking up some info on a couple GA's, I noticed their bio's have how many children they have had.  Although it is totally up to the individual and you can't judge another and how many children they do or don't have, I couldn't resist noticing the following trend...

Average number of children to the seven most senior GA's (excluding President Monson to keep the numbers at seven and seven) is 6.4 while the average for the seven least senior GA's is 3.7.  One of the things I learned in my sociology minor that stuck out the most to me was how we as LDS people tend to follow the nation trends very similar, just at different levels for most things.  For example, when the average family went from four to two, we went from eight to four (or some other similar numbers).  We drop when the country drops, but just at different numbers.  Here are the stats...

Monson 3

Q12

Packer 10

Perry 3

Nelson 10

Oaks 6

Ballard 7

Scott 7

Hales 2

Holland 3

Bednar 3

Cook 3

Christofferson 5

Anderson 4

Everyone but Monson

Packer 10

Perry 3

Nelson 10

Oaks 6

Ballard 7

Scott 7

Hales 2

Holland 3

Eyring 6

Uchtdorf 2

Bednar 3

Cook 3

Christofferson 5

Anderson 4

Averages

First 7 = 6.4

Last 7 = 3.7