The question was, "What did she want?"
That should answer the silly question.
She's not a character from a novel written by a modern day feminist about how hard and traumatic life is in a Middle Eastern country because she has to carry the burden of raising children.
The number of people who had 16 and didn’t want 16 is also non-zero.
Availability of birth control coinciding with a fall in number of children per family suggests what the balance between the two might look like.