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Waiting for the 19th

Sue and Noelle Redfords are waiting for their 19 baby! Sue Radford is 40 years old and is 12 weeks pregnant. The spouses and their children live on income from their own bakery, they pride themselves on the fact that they have no loans and have enough money to live on.

Sue first became pregnant at the age of 14, her future husband was 5 years older than her. Young people got married and kept the child, they were guided by the fact that both were adopted at one time.

"Sue and Noelle Redfords are waiting for the birth of their 19 baby!" Photo from thesun.co.uk

“It was a big surprise for us. We firmly decided that we did not want more children, but on New Year we are lucky again, ”Sue Radford told The Sun.

The Shishkin family from Voronezh

The Russian family of Alexander and Elena Shishkin has 20 children. They live in a private house in Voronezh with a total area of ​​400 sq. meters. They have 10 bedrooms, 2 halls and a kitchen. Elder daughters prepare food for a large family, the rest of the children help them.

The eldest son Aleksey is already married, he has 3 children, he lives separately from his parents, the other 19 children live with them.

21 children in the village of Ostritsa, Chernivtsi region

The Ukrainians Leonora and Yanosh Nameni have 21 children. They live in the village of Ostritsa, Chernivtsi region. She gave birth to her 21 children three years ago at the age of 44. Leonora and her 47-year-old husband Janos are themselves from large families. The head of the family has 16 brothers and sisters, his wife has 14.

The woman gave birth to her first son, Jonathan, at the age of 21, and since then the addition to their family has happened almost every year, twins have appeared twice. Now, after the birth of Janos Jr., the family has eleven sons and ten daughters. Seventeen of them live with their parents.

The largest American family

The largest American family has 19 children. Americans Jim Bob Duggar and his wife Michelle have all children's names beginning with the letter J. Jim Bob and Michelle were married on July 21, 1984. At first, the spouses did not at all strive for having many children; their first child was born three years after the wedding.

On this, Jim Bob and Michelle decided to limit themselves, and Michelle decided to take contraception, but suddenly she had a miscarriage. After this incident, the couple no longer avoided their children and decided to trust God. After this decision, Michelle gave birth to children about once every one and a half years.

On American television, the show 19 Kids and Counting is dedicated to a large family. The father of the family, Jim Bob Duggar, is engaged in real estate and earns good money. In addition, the management of the TV channel, which hosts the show 19 Kids and Counting, helped the family with the purchase of a house.

Shuisky peasant

The family of the Shuya peasant Fyodor Vasiliev (1707-1782) is considered the largest in the world. His first wife, whose name, unfortunately, has not been preserved in history, gave birth to 69 children: 16 pairs of twins, 7 triplets and 4 quadruples. In total, she gave birth 27 times. Of the 69 children born, 67 survived infancy.

After the death of his first wife, Fedor Vasiliev married again, the second wife, whose name we also do not know, bore him 18 more children: six twins and two triplets. As a result, the Shuya peasant Fyodor Vasiliev became the father of 87 children.

The first wife of Fedor Vasilyev is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most large mother in the world. By the way, about the book.

Brewer Guinness

Brewer Arthur Guinness, founder of the Irish brewery that bears his name, was father of many children... His wife Olivia Whitmore gave birth to 21 children, of which 10 survived to adulthood and three continued their father's business.

By the way, many believe that the Guinness Book of Records has nothing to do with beer. But this is not the case. Has, and the most direct. To resolve disputes in pubs without bloodshed, you needed a source you could trust, and where all the records would be recorded. The Guinness Company began to publish this book for their pubs.

Over time, the directory, which contains all the achievements of people and animals, information about unique natural phenomena and progress, has become popular all over the world. Families with many children also found their place here, of course.

Now Elena Georgievna has 9 sons and 11 daughters. Although many years ago, immediately after her marriage, doctors assumed that young people might have a problem with children. Elena's, and her husband's, has a positive one, which is not very good for a happy motherhood, especially a large one. But God gave. And Elena and her husband Alexander never refused this gift.

Home bookkeeping

As a result, Elena not only won gold star"Mother-heroine": together with her husband Alexander, they entered the Russian Book of Records as the largest family in the country.

Believe me, we did not specifically strive for such a record, but we were very glad to every child, - smiles Elena Georgievna... - Of course, they were surprised to learn that they went down in history. They even promised to give us a computer, but apparently they forgot. By the way, we still don't have a computer, although some tasks at school are asked to be performed on it. But the diploma was given. Such a pleasant reminder of the merits to the Motherland.

As a large family, the local authorities presented the Shishkins with a gazelle, but the zealous owners sold the expensive car and said that they had found a cheaper and more reliable car. They were also granted 15 acres of land. True, such a plot for 20 children turned out to be not enough, so the land had to be bought in addition. Now parents help their grown children as much as they can. After all, many have dispersed to different cities, someone lives in rented apartments, someone is under construction, and who is studying ... Now the eldest son is 34 years old, and the youngest daughter is 9 years old.

Four schoolchildren, four students and two adult girls remained with us, - explains the mother-heroine. “But it’s not easy with ten children either. We have a house of 11 rooms, so we pay more than 10 thousand rubles only for a communal apartment. But my husband and I are already pensioners.

Elena Georgievna came out at the age of 50. Now she is 54, her husband, Alexander Vasilyevich, who has worked as a fire engine driver for many years, is 57. A great help to retirement is the vegetable garden, from which the Shishkins simply do not crawl out, and their own farm: a cow, a pig, chickens ... Otherwise, you will not survive. And the farm has its own small tractor - both for itself and sometimes to earn extra money.

Whatever one may say, but the main expenses - food and a communal apartment, - sighs a mother with many children. - It's even easier with clothes. It is difficult to spoil children in a large family, they wear everything one after another, so they try to be more careful. Recently, we even laughed when we looked at the diapers of the eldest son, who "survived" to the youngest daughter.

Elena Georgievna counts family budget: child support - 212 rubles. For five minors who live with their parents, there are as many as 1060! It happened that businessmen helped the Shishkins. For example, Euroset presented a playground, which still stands in their yard. At the expense of the same company, the Shishkin children were treated for teeth, they dressed everyone in front of the school, and even once they took the whole family to the capital for a ride on a steamer along the Moscow River. Here it is - happiness ...

My half

How did we meet my husband? - the woman laughs.

Yes, everything turned out simply, we are neighbors, we looked closely at each other for a long time - there was time, and only then we began to communicate. When Sasha went to the army, he asked him to wait. Well, I waited, then signed and healed in perfect harmony.

A happy mother and wife admit that they have never regretted their choice:

My husband is very attentive, loving, there is trust between us, and I know that I am the only one with him. He loves children very much. It used to come home from work, fall tired on the floor, and they stick around him, climb on it, play. I ask him to go to another room, to rest, but my husband refuses, says that he is resting with the children. He is kind, but strict when necessary. What a father should be.

In the footsteps of his parents, the eldest son Aleksey also followed, he is a father of many children, raising five children. Now he is building his house in Shcherbinka. It's not easy, but the family helps: the other day, four of him younger brothers went from Voronezh to the Moscow region to help with the construction site. Whatever you say - family ties with the Shishkins are really strong. Everyone helps each other: so the daughters take care of their mother, ask them not to work in the garden, milk the cow themselves, cope with another household. Shishkin is no stranger to working, with early childhood they do everything together: who washes the dishes, who cleans up, and who looks after the younger children. And no one is hiding behind someone else's back, because they know that everything in a big family is in plain sight.

Waiting for a miracle

The feeling of elbows and responsibility is very important, Elena Shishkina is sure. - The child must be made to understand that the family loves him very much and expects the same love from him. Children also need our attention. Once at school, a teacher told us that in an essay on the topic “Who would I like to be like?” One student from a very prosperous and wealthy family wrote: “I want to be like a TV, because everyone loves it and my parents spend with it a lot of time ”... Probably, with children of any age you need to be together as much as possible, to have common interests. For example, we do our lessons collectively. We have a large room with tables with lamps, just like in a real school class. This is how we learn ...

However, a large family is also a lot of work. Realizing this, many people today deliberately refuse not only from large families, but also from children in general, believing that the problem with them is through the roof. Moreover, they find many arguments in defense of their position.

I know these, I saw them, - agrees Elena Georgievna. - Several years ago we were invited to Moscow for a program about large families. So there was one woman who claimed that she would never give birth, and boasted that she was free and independent. And I felt very sorry for her, because people who do not know and do not want to know the happiness of motherhood can only sympathize. What did they live their lives for? To whom will the gift received from God and their mother be given? It seems to me that the meaning of life is in life itself, which must be left behind. Children are a constant joy. When everyone leaves for us and silence reigns in the house, my husband and I immediately go to call the children, find out how things are, if everyone is all right.

... Of course, the Shishkins also have difficulties and problems. But spouses always calm themselves like this: everything bad passes, the main thing is that we have each other. You just have to live, love and work honestly ...

I can't complain about anything, God gave the most important thing - love and family, - the mother of many children confesses. - It's a pity, of course, that the years pass quickly. We have long been grandparents, we have 20 grandchildren, and three more are about to be born. We are happy - we live all the time in anticipation of a miracle ...

In modern Russia, families with three or more children cause surprise, bewilderment and even sympathy for many. But the most famous in history large families it is Russian.

The largest family in history

One of the American TV channels even has a program dedicated to the Duggar family "19 Kids and Counting".

Another famous large family is the family of the Irish brewer Arthur Guinness. Arthur and his wife Olivia Whitmore had 21 children, three of whom became brewers and continued their father's business. The Guinness beer brand is known all over the world

The largest family in Russia

The family lives in big house, which was built many years ago on its own. The house is always impeccable cleanliness and order. Older children help their parents with housework and take care of the kids. Now 10 children are left with their parents, the rest have grown up and dispersed to different cities. The youngest daughter is 10 years old, and the oldest son is 35. He is the father of five children, all in all, the Shishkins already have 23 grandchildren.

The largest father in the world

In 2012, his ninety-fourth child was born. For the first time, Daad married in 1967 at the age of 19, since then he had 18 companions in life. According to Sharia Law, a man can be married to four women at the same time, which Daad successfully used. The man is proud that he was able to adequately provide for all his wives and offspring. Each of his wives has a home, a car, and financial assistance. This is largely possible thanks to the help of local sheikhs who support the "super-dad", as local media dubbed Daad, in his desire to become the father of hundreds of children.

"Super Dad" also wants to enter the Guinness Book of Records. Today, the sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismail of the first half of the 18th century is considered the largest father in world history. According to the Guinness Book of Records, he gave birth to at least 342 girls and 700 boys.

But anyway, a large number of children in countries where polygamy is allowed is not as striking as in monogamous families. So, for example, the peasant Yakov Kirillov was recognized as the most large father in the history of Russia. The first wife bore him 57 children, the second another 15. In total, he was the father of 72 children from two consecutive marriages. In this regard, at the age of 60, he was presented to the court.

The largest mother in the world

Another mother with many children is Chilean Leontina Albina. She gave birth to 55 children, and as a result of the first five pregnancies, she gave birth to triplets and only boys.

The most mother of many children in history is our compatriot, the peasant woman Vasilyeva from the Shuisky district. Unfortunately, the name of the heroine mother has not survived in history. It is known that she gave birth to 69 children, all pregnancies were multiple. Vasilieva gave birth to twins 16 times, triplets 7 times and quadruples 4 times. She holds the record for multiple pregnancies. A surprising fact for that time was that only two children died in infancy, 67 survived to adulthood.

V different time, v different countries there are families who are not afraid to give life to a large number of children. And do not look at the external circumstances and life difficulties.

But the youngest mothers do not always become large. According to the website, there is a girl in China who gave birth at the age of 9, but there are mothers who gave birth even earlier.
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The largest mother on earth, Mariam Nabatanzi from Uganda, gave birth to 44 children by the age of 36. A woman suffers from a rare genetic disorder in which she always has more than one child.

She had her first twins at the age of 13, a year after she married a man 28 years her senior. Then she gave birth to twins five more times, triplets four times and quadruplets five times. Already at 23, she had 25 children and she asked doctors to somehow stop it. The doctors found out that contraceptives would not help her because of the innate characteristics of the body.

Dr. Charles Kiggundu, a gynecologist at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, noted that a genetic predisposition to hyperovulation, in which a woman always matures several eggs per cycle, is a very rare condition.

Now the doctors were able to take measures to eliminate the risk of another pregnancy for a mother with many children, and performed an operation to ligate the fallopian tubes.

“I grew up in tears. My whole life has been spent caring for children and working to support them,” she said, saying that she originally wanted to have no more than six children.

Her husband left her after the last birth, which ended with the death of one of the twins three years ago. Now she single-handedly takes care of all her children, who live with her in four small houses.

The family is the unit of society, its foundation. Everything that happens inside it reflects on society, since the latter is formed by hundreds of thousands, millions of such cells. In this article, we will compile an unusual list of the most prolific marriages and find out about the largest families in the world (and in history). I wonder who was not afraid of a large number of descendants and a large-scale continuation of their kind? Let's start our top ten "Largest Families in the World".

Vasilievs from Russia

In the 18th century, this family set a world record. Until now, no one has beaten him. The huge family of Vasilievs from the Shuisky district opens our top-list "The largest families in the world." The wife of the peasant Vasiliev gave birth to 69 children! And so many descendants were born in just 40 years. life together... How is this possible ?! This is explained by several multiple pregnancies peasant women: 4 children were born 4 times, triplets appeared 7 times, 16 cases when twins came to this family. After the death of his first wife, the peasant Vasiliev married a second time - from this marriage 18 more children were born. As a result, he turned out to be the father of 87 children.

Leontines from Chile

Our list of "The Largest Families in the World" is represented by the next Chilean couple of prolific Leontin parents. At the beginning of the 20th century, the 64th child was born in a friendly and large family. However, only 55 children were officially registered. This is not surprising or suspicious, since this situation with "unofficial" offspring is quite common in Chile.

Gravata from Italy

Around the same time, in the twenties of the XX century, the 62nd baby was born in the Gravata family in Palermo. Throughout her life, mother Rosa gave birth to one gear, fives, fours and twice triplets, the rest of the births brought one child at a time.

Kirillovs from Russia

And again a couple with many children from Russia! In the 18th century, the peasant family of Yakov Kirillov lived and became famous on the territory of our country in the village of Vvedenskoye. He continues our list of "The largest families in the world." In total, the peasant had 72 children in his 60s. The first wife gave birth to 57 children, and 15 - the second. It was for these successes that Yakov Kirillov was noted at the court of Catherine II.

Pomegranate from Italy

Italy is not lagging behind either! Another large family abroad by the name of Granata continues our top list. In 1832, their 52nd child was born in a row.

Mott from UK

The Englishmen Elizabeth and John Mott entered into a marriage alliance in 1676. They did not have to regret this decision. As a result of their family life 42 healthy children were born.

Greenhill from UK

Another English couple The Greenhills, who lived in Great Britain in the 17th century, gave birth to 39 children. That is why we got on our unusual prolific list.

Daad Mohamed al-Balushi from the UAE

In the United Arab Emirates, in 2012, the 94th child was born to the huge family of Daad Mohamed al-Balushi. Despite such a number of children, this prolific father is not in the first place due to the fact that such a large number of children was provided to him by 18 wives, who successively replace each other after a divorce. According to Sharia law, a man could have 4 official wives at the same time. However, due to its large offspring, it continues our top list of "The Largest Families in the World".

Zion Khan from Indonesia

Today, in the Indian village, such views of Daad Mohamed al-Balushi are shared by Zion Khan, the founder of the sect, who, according to the laws of his religious cell, can have an unlimited number of wives. His large family lives in a modest one hundred-room house: 38 women of Zion live there, who gave birth to their husband a total of 94 children. The father of many children does not want to stop there and intends to continue his family.

Moulay from Morocco

In the 18th century, Morocco was ruled by the cruel Sultan Moulay Ismail, the owner of hundreds of wives and concubines. The Guinness Book of Records reflected on its pages the following figures: the sultan gave birth to 700 boys and 342 girls. However, according to historical records, half of the children born from concubines were not officially registered. The information reflects that every 4 days in the life of Moulay Ismail his child was born. Be that as it may, he is the most large father in the world, and his many thousands of kinship with wives and children is the largest large family in the world in all history, albeit in the unusual sense of the word for us (for us, marriage is a mono-union ).

Large families in the past

Long ago it was believed that a family should be large and large - it is easier to live together in big world... When everyone fulfills their duties, things go faster and more conveniently. The craft (and this is training) and the conduct of business in the world (society) was passed on from grandfathers and father to sons and grandchildren, and household and all women's everyday wisdom wandered from grandmothers and mothers to daughters and granddaughters. This is how the transfer of knowledge, skills and abilities proceeded, the culture was absorbed. The upbringing and education of the younger ones (through work, by their own example, mutual assistance, through communication with each other) took place interactively, right before our eyes. It did not depend on the strata of the population. Those who had the opportunity to receive education from other teachers and professionals, they undoubtedly received it, but it was additional, developing, expanding the boundaries of the knowledge that we already had. The development of generations went approximately in this way.

Large families these days

Over time, everything has changed: social conditions, social attitudes and demographic outlook. Now in Russia, a family with three children and more is considered a large family. Not everyone decides on such a number of children. It would be more correct to say that very few people decide. Large families in Russia are only 7-9 percent of all existing ones. This situation is a reflection of many social factors: this is an insufficient amount of earned finances, and a deterioration of the environment, which affects the health of women and men in reproductive age, and working on an equal basis with men, instead of doing housework and raising children at home, as well as the emergence of a negative attitude towards large families.

With regard to our topic, we can probably dwell a little more on the last factor. For what reason has a negative attitude towards large families formed in society? The fact is that in recent decades, such “cells of society” have been mistakenly associated with disadvantaged ones. This happened due to the loss of some representatives of the moral and moral character and due to the lack of upbringing. Such couples, giving birth to children, are not involved in their upbringing and development (often find themselves later without the participation and help of the second parent). Sometimes a large number of children can even be explained by the existing benefits (for the purpose of support, the state allocates special subsidies to large families). Such a child, of course, having an unfavorable example before his eyes, as a rule, repeats it in his life.

However, it is wrong to judge a whole category of large families by individual disadvantaged representatives. But in order for a shift in the perception of society to take place, again successful examples are needed in the upbringing and overcoming of common everyday difficulties by large families, and this is not a quick matter, a matter of an entire era.