It depens on how you're using it.
Example: My aunty has five children. I have five children to take care of.
Eleanor Roosevelt had five children.
Because he and his wife chose to have five children.
He has five children
he has five children
Arlyne Parness - wrote Five Children's Stories by Grandma
Five identical children born at the same time are referred to as pentuplets.
Five Children and It - 1991 is rated/received certificates of: Singapore:G
He had six children. He swollowed five of them.
Five children... that he knows of.
Three. The first generation is the mom's generation. The second generation is the mom's children's generation. The third generation is the five children's children's generation.
The statement can be true if the family has a total of five children, with two boys and three girls. The phrase "half of which are boys" can also be interpreted as meaning that two out of the five children are boys, which is indeed half of four, but not of five. Therefore, the family can have five children with two being boys, fulfilling the conditions of the question.
Five of the passengers on the Titanic were children.