"Several families raised their first girls as boys, sir," she said.

A Swedish farmer and the family he raised on his own.

Each family kept the child they had been living with, though, and raised them as their own even after learning of the switch.

His aunt's family had raised no objections to her daughter being brought up.

After the house flooded in 1987, the family raised it five feet.

The family took her in and raised her as one of their own.

In the end, he had been everything his family had raised him to be.

One year her family raised three geese on their farm.

The two families have become friends and are raising the children as siblings, getting them together about once a month.

But, today, European families are raising fewer children than their parents.