# Which Doper has the most kids?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 1, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doper-has-the-most-kids/587533 "2011-07-01T18:02:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doper-has-the-most-kids/587533/41 "2011-07-10T17:18:21Z")

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> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#):
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> Right now, in North America, eight kids is a whole lot of kids. Anything over about three is considered a large family, and people sort of boggle at the idea of managing more than a couple.  
> We’re just working on #3, and we’ve already gotten a lot of, “Wow, really? 3?” comments.

Our family doctor when I was a kid was the oldest of 10 and his wife the youngest of 9. They now have 8 of their own.

We also lived near an Amish community and knew a family that had 17. (I can’t remember if there were 2 or 3 sets of twins)

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