This study analyses the determinants of an individual’s intention to start up a new venture thatinvolves family members. Building on the family embeddedness perspective, we hypothesize theexistence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between the number of individuals in a familyhousehold and the intention to start a family business. Moreover, we argue that this relationship ismoderated by the household income and the individual’s education level. With supportiveempirical results based on data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) from Mexico,our work contributes to research on family embeddedness and entrepreneurial career intentionsby identifying the importance of household-level factors in the family business start-up decision,and by depicting such decision as a distinctive career option in terms of self-employment.