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Congrats to the family, I guess.
Congrats I guess. All I can say is better her then me! No way in hell would I have that many kids. And homeschooling them. Forget it!
There’s a family in the little town I live in that has 18 kids. There was an article in the newspaper about them a couple of years ago. They’re a middle income family and live in a 4 bedroom 2 bath house. My husband went to school with some of the kids so some of them are in their late 20s and moved out of the house now but still… 18 kids. I’d go nuts.
Jedidiah? Jinger?
I guess by children no. 26 and 27, Jim-Bob and Michelle will be down to naming them “Jailbait,” “Jell-O,” “Jockstrap” and “Jumper-Cable.”
Lady, they are children, not friggin’ Pokemon.
Apparently, they are trying to slowly repopulate America single-handedly.
I’ll bet she’s feeling pretty reamed right about now.
Shoot, I can beat that. My father ropes with a guy that was one of 26 brothers and sisters. Granted, he is from a generation even older than my father when families tended to be larger, and we were in a rural agricultural setting. I understand, though, that his mother had a number of twins and triplets.
I remember reading once that the world record was 69 kids from one mother in Australia. I searched the Guinness Book of World Records website and found nothing
What’s wrong with a having a large family? Denigrating people for having a large family is simply wrong.
Tell that to Jinger, honey.
If the parents can support them, and the children can support each other and their parents around the house, I say more power to them.
Because the world is overpopulated. Because the schools are overcrowded. Because it takes more fuel to transport them, more food to feed them, more tax dollars to support them. Because of increased burdens on hospitals, prisons, court systems, state resources. And because all of them will probably procreate at some point, further exacerbating the problems.
Boy, for this woman, menstruation would seem less like an automatic fact of life than a kind of illness that comes and goes.
I’ll bet the baby cartwheeled out.
To each is own, I guess. I’m glad she’s happy. She sounds like something a doula-friend of mine described as a birth junkie…someone who loves being pregnant and having babkies, but then sort of loses interest in the kid when she/he gets past age 2 or so.
Also, I’ve always wondered how on earth you can give each child the individual love and attention they all need when you have so many? You’d kinda have to schedule them: Jinger, Tuesday 1:30-2, Jill, 2-2:30, etc…I’d go nuts. But then, I’m one of those super-selfish people who chose to have only one child.
You are awesome!
Over the course of their life, the average American child will consume 30 times the resources a child in West Africa will consume.
If you heard of a woman in Africa with 450 kids, would it inspire thoughts of world over-population and the like?
That doesn’t sound like someone to whom standing comes natural.
That’s well beyond “a large family.” Four children make a large family. Fifteen children make for an unsupportably large family.
Even if Jim Bob’s business brings in enough to adequately feed and clothe them (which would be an extraordinary feat,) it seems unlikely that all the kids are receiving the support that children should have.
Home-schooling is fine, if it’s done properly. In this situation, it seems very unlikely that the kids are going to be adequately educated. The main benefit of home-schooling over public schools is supposed to be that the kids receive more individual attention. This family has eleven school-aged kids who require nine separate curriculums. Each grade level receives an hour of basic education per day, that’s already a remarkable accomplishment, as it’s more than a full day’s work for the caregivers, which presumably has be delivered sometime in between the quotidian tasks associated with the management of a household of seventeen, of which five or six of the members are young enough to require nearly constant supervision.
It will be a miracle if a significant number of those kids reach adulthood with an education that will allow them to do much beyond reproducing themselves.
That should read “If each grade level receives an hour of basic education per day, that’s already a remarkable accomplishment…”
No, the super-selfish people choose to have no children. :D&R:
But seriously, my wife was #13 of 14 kids, which may be why we’ve chosen to have Zero ourselves.
Even if he made a couple hundred grand a year -which is possible for an unusually good real estate agent- it seems like he would barely be scraping by just to feed and clothe them. Forget anything extra like clothes, birthday parties, or family vacation.
And what if even half of them want to go to college. How did you send eight kids to college?!