Kinds of family do you want- a large family or a small one

Please check it for me. thanks you so much!
I prefer to have a large family because i love babies very much. I like taking care of children and grow them up. In addition, children are essential to maintain the family happiness. Whenever parents get into trouble, quarrel with each other, children would be a rope that ties the family together. I believe that a family won't be happy without a child, without a sound of cries and smiles of children. Furthernore, when you have many children, they will look after you when you get older.

What is this for? What were the instructions? It is a very simple, short paragraph. Is it meant to be, or is it meant to be a full essay? If the latter, you will need to do a lot more work and add much more to it.

I wrote a longer essay as your advice. I wonder whether I can post a short writing on this forum? It's quite hard to write an essay compeletly.