The largest father in history. The largest mother in the world. The most prolific surrogate mother in the world

Waiting for the 19th

Sue and Noel Radford are expecting their 19th baby! Sue Radford is 40 years old and 12 weeks pregnant. The couple and their children live on the income from their own bakery, they are proud that they have no loans and they 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 Noel Radford are expecting their 19th 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 got 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. The eldest daughters prepare food for a large family, the rest of the children help them.

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

21 children in the village of Ostritsa, Chernivtsi region

Ukrainians Leonora and Janos 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 themselves come 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 annually, twins have appeared twice. Now, after the birth of Janos Jr., there are eleven sons and ten daughters in the family. Seventeen of them live with their parents.

The largest American family

In the largest American family 19 children. Americans Jim Bob Duggar and his wife Michelle have the names of all children beginning with the letter J. Jim Bob and Michelle got married on July 21, 1984. At first, the couple did not at all strive for large families, their first child was born to them three years after the wedding.

At this, Jim Bob and Michelle decided to limit themselves, and Michelle decided to take birth control, but unexpectedly she had a miscarriage. After this incident, the couple no longer avoided children and decided to trust God. After this decision, Michelle gave birth to children about once every year and a half.

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 makes good money. In addition, the management of the TV channel on which the show 19 Kids and Counting airs helped the family with the purchase of a house.

Shuya peasant

The family of the Shuya peasant Fyodor Vasiliev (1707-1782) is considered the largest in the world. His first wife, whose name history, unfortunately, has not preserved, 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, Fyodor 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 Vasilyev became the father of 87 children.

The first wife of Fyodor Vasiliev is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest mother in the world. By the way, about the book.

Brewer Guinness

Brewer Arthur Guinness, founder of the Irish brewing company that bears his name, was the 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 work.

By the way, many believe that the Guinness Book of Records has nothing to do with beer. But it's not. Has, and the most direct. In order to resolve disputes in pubs without bloodshed, a source was needed that could be trusted and where all the records would be recorded. The Guinness company began to publish this book for their pubs.

Over time, the reference book, 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, of course, found their place here.

IN different countries around the world, large families are families with different numbers of children. In Russia (in some regions), a family with three children is considered a large family. Families with a large number of children are everywhere: Europe, Asia, America, Africa. We decided to find out what they are - the largest families in the world? Our list includes only those families in which children were born by parents, and not taken for upbringing.

10 Jose Maria Postigo And Rosa Peach

José Maria Postigo and Rosa Peach - 15 children.

This is the largest family in Spain. Parents grew up in large families and had no doubt that someday they would have their own large family. Rosa and Jose Maria lost three children - they were born with heart disease. After experienced tragic cases, parents had 15 healthy babies. The couple lead an active social life and founded a charity. Rose took the time to write a book about living happily while raising 15 children. In March 2017, Jose Maria Postigo died of liver cancer, and now all the worries about a large family fell on the shoulders of his wife Rosa.

9 The Bonell family

Bonell family - 16 children.

Before meeting her future husband, Ray, the Australian Jenny was not at all interested in marriage, and even more so in children. Now the Bonells are among the largest families in the world, and Jenny is not going to stop after giving birth to 16 children. Over the years of marriage, she suffered 7 miscarriages, but this did not stop the mother of many children, who adores children. Now Ray and Jenny are raising 7 daughters and 9 sons. For such a number of children, the couple had to get a bus. Despite the difficulties, the Bonells do not rule out that another child will someday appear in their family.

8 The Bates family

The Bates family - 19 children.

Kelly, the mother of one of the largest families in the world, gives birth to babies almost every year. She never had twins, twins or triplets. The Bates are evangelicals, so they don't use contraception. None of the children attend public kindergartens and schools - they all received home education. The four eldest sons have already started their own families and live separately from their parents.

7 The Radford Family

The Radford family - 19 children.

The Radfords are the largest family in the UK. It is noteworthy that Sue Radford gave birth to her first child at the age of 14. The couple now have 19 children. They both lived in foster families, had known each other since the age of seven and dreamed of their big and friendly family. In the summer of 2017, it became known that an addition is expected in a large family - 42-year-old Sue is expecting her 20th child. She already knows it will be a boy. On this, according to Sue and Noel, they decided to stop - age does not allow a woman to bear more children.

The head of the Noel family is the owner of a bakery, where he works from 5 am until late at night to support his numerous offspring. The Radfords are fully self-sufficient and do not ask for help from the state.

6 The Duggar family

The Duggar family - 19 children.

The Duggar family is one of the most famous large families in the world thanks to the TV show 19 Kids and Counting which features their Everyday life. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are the parents of 10 boys and 9 girls. A large family lives in Tontytown, Arkansas. They lead a quiet life, children receive home education. Older children help their parents raise the younger ones and perform daily chores around the house.

Interesting fact: The names of all children in this family begin with the letter "J". Their parents explain the presence of such a large number of children with a miscarriage, which ended Michelle's first pregnancy. The elder Duggars believe that the tragedy was due to oral contraceptives. After that, they refused to accept them. In 2011, the Duggars announced that they were expecting their 20th child, but Michelle had a miscarriage.

5 The Shishkin family

The Shishkin family - 20 children.

The largest family in Russia lives in the Voronezh region. The Shishkins had 11 girls and 9 boys. The father of the family, Alexander, grew up in a large family and always dreamed that he would have many children. The older ones have already grown up and left, and ten younger children now live with their parents. Alexander and Elena can also boast of an impressive number of grandchildren - they have 23 of them. The Shishkins do not have everything going smoothly in their lives and everyday life - only for light and water they have to pay huge sums every month.

4 The Guinness family

Guinness family - 21 children.

Irish brewer Arthur Guinness is known not only as the founder of the legendary Guinness brand, but also as the head of a large family of 21 children. Three of the children continued the family business and became brewers following their father's example. By the way, the world-famous Guinness Book of Records is directly related to the brewer with many children. Once it was decided to create an authoritative source that would help resolve disputes that arise among pub visitors. At first, the book included scientific facts, which gradually replaced the amazing and extraordinary achievements of people from all over the globe.

3 Nameny family

Nameni's family - 21 children.

The largest family in Ukraine lives in the village of Ostritsa, Chernivtsi region. Leonora and Janos are believers, so they rely on God in the matter of childbearing. The older children already have families of their own, and Leonora and Janos have six grandchildren. They earn their living from agriculture. They do not expect help from the state, the father of the family works where he can. After the birth of the 20th child, the family was included in the Book of Records of Ukraine, and Leonora received the title of mother-heroine.

2 The Greenhill family

Greenhill family - 39 children.

One of the largest families in the world is the Greenhill family that lived in England in the 17th century. They raised 32 daughters and 7 sons. Elizabeth Greenhill holds an amazing record: she gave birth 37 times to one baby and once to twins.

1 The Vasiliev family

The Vasiliev family - 67 children.

All birth records in modern large families fade before the story of a Russian peasant woman who gave birth to 69 children. Her name, unfortunately, remains unknown. According to information from the annals of the Nikolsky Monastery, the first wife of the peasant Fyodor Vasiliev gave birth 27 times: 16 pairs of twins, 7 triplets and 4 quadruplets. Only two children did not survive infancy. The Vasilievs thus became the most large family in the world.

Do you want to know about the most famous mothers and fathers of many children?

1. Ivan Okhlobystin - 6 children

The most extraordinary and versatile dad of six children. As we remember, Okhlobystin was a priest, and now he is an excellent director and actor with peppercorns. His wife, Oksana Arbuzova, supported her husband completely and in everything, including in creating a large family with many children. Ivan and Oksana gave birth to two sons - Vasya and Savvushka, and four beautiful daughters - Anfisa, Evdokia, Varenka and John.

2. Nikita Mikhalkov - 4 children

World-famous director Nikita Mikhalkov has a son Stepan from his first marriage with Anastasia Vertinskaya, who is already 46 years old. Having married a second time, he was lucky enough to become a father three more times. His wife Tatyana bore him girls Anna and Nadezhda, and a son Artyom.

3. Sting - 6 children

During their twenty-year marriage, Sting and Trudie Styler gave birth to six wonderful children. But this does not prevent the famous dad from using marijuana and defending the right to do so.

4. Natalia Vodianova - 5 children

The supermodel never ceases to amaze the public. Without losing its popularity in modeling business, Natasha in her first marriage gave birth to three children to an English lord. Then in the second, already civil marriage, she gave birth to sons Maxim and Roman. At the same time, she looks great and has the same model figure.

5. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - 6 children

The sexiest and strongest star couple, Brad and Angie, first became parents to adopted children - a boy from Cambodia and a girl from Ethiopia. Then at star couple their own beautiful daughter was born, after which they did not stop and adopted another boy from Vietnam. And after 5 years, Jolie again gave birth to Pete, but already twin boys. However, this is not the end of the story, soon the family will be replenished with another adopted baby.

6. Ozzy Osbourne - 6 children

Who would have thought that "the lord of darkness and the king of horror" turns out to be a wonderful family man. Sharon and Ozzy have been together for thirty years, and in marriage they had three children. All children were born one after another at the beginning of the family journey of this cheerful family. The eldest daughter is 28, the middle one is 27 and the youngest son is 26 years old. But Ozzy does not have all the children, and he has a second marriage with Sharon. In his first marriage to Thelma Ralli, he lived for 12 years, and over the years he also had three children.

7. Valeria and Joseph Prigozhin - 6 children

This sweet couple does not have joint children, but at the same time brings up six. Valeria has three children from her first marriage, and Joseph has two from his first marriage and one daughter from his second. But despite this, the family lives amicably and happily.

8. David and Victoria Beckham - 4 children

This star married couple has been married for 16 years, and they are raising four beautiful children - three sons and a sweet daughter.

9. Vyacheslav Butusov - 4 children

The standard of Russian rock, the former leader of the Nautilus group, has four children. Behind the scenes of the rock scene good father and family man.

10. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick - 3 children

This couple had their first child only after five years of marriage, but subsequent attempts to conceive more children were unsuccessful. But the couple really wanted more children's feet to stomp in their family, and then they used the services of a surrogate mother, who gave birth to two beautiful twin girls.

11. Eddie Murphy - 9 children

This Hollywood mega-popular actor is still the leader in the ratings of "fathers of many children", he has 9 children and all are blood. Five children were born to him in a legal marriage with already ex-wife, model Nicole Mitchell, and three more appeared out of wedlock, from Paulette McKneely and Tamara Good for a son, from Melanie Brown - a daughter. Eddie's last chosen one, Paige Butcher, also recently gave birth to another daughter.

12. Steven Spielberg - 7 children

The famous director and producer Spielberg has five blood children from two marriages and two adopted children.

13. Tatyana Lazareva and Mikhail Shats - 3 children

A comical couple in marriage brings up three children - two joint daughters, and Tatyana's son from a common-law husband. According to caring parents, children only inspire them to new achievements and do not interfere with career development.

14. Heidi Klum - 4 children

Heidi gave birth to three children from ex-husband Sila also has a daughter with businessman Flavio Briatore.

15. Mel Gibson - 8 children

Having been married for over 20 years, Robin Moore and Mel Gibson had seven children: two girls and five boys. After a divorce from his first wife in 2009, Mel gave birth to another daughter, Russian actress Oksana Grigorieva, but in 2010 their marriage broke up with a scandal.

16. Amalia Mordvinova (Goldanskaya) - 4 children

The famous Russian actress Amalia gave birth to her first child only in her second marriage - this is her daughter Diana. In her third marriage, she gave birth to three more children: two girls, Evangeline and Seraphim, and a boy, Herman.

17. Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott - 4 children

The famous actress and her husband, the producer, gave birth to four children in marriage, two girls and boys.

18. Madonna - 3 children

The famous and daring singer has three children. She gave birth to two from stormy romances: in 1996, a daughter from personal trainer Carlos Leone, and a son was born in marriage with Guy Ritchie. Later adopted one year old baby from Malawi.

19. Mick Jagger - 7 children

The leader of the rock band Rolling Stones has seven children, four of whom were born in marriage to Jerry Hall, and three from different beauties with whom Mick had affairs around the world.

20. Evgeny Tsyganov and Irina Leonova - 7 children

This star couple in 2015 had a seventh child - a girl. Therefore, they can be called the largest family of Russian pop music.

21. Stas Mikhailov - 6 children

A favorite of women, a talented singer brings up six children. Four of his children were born in three different marriages, and Stas is also raising two adopted children born from the first marriage of his third wife.

22. Mikhail Efremov - 6 children

The famous and popular actor was married 5 times, and in these marriages the couple gave birth to six beautiful children.

23. Valery Meladze - 5 children

Valery always dreamed that he would have a big family and many children, and it happened. Married to his first wife, he had three daughters. In his second marriage with Albina Dzhanabaeva (former soloist of the VIA Gra group), he had two sons.

24. Mikhail Porechenkov - 5 children

Mikhail's firstborn appeared out of wedlock, from an affair with a girlfriend of his youth, about whose birth he did not know for a long time and confirmed paternity only in 2009. The rest of Porechenkov's children appeared in official marriages. And, as the actor himself says, loneliness does not threaten him, since he has many children whom he loves immensely.

25. Alexey Kortnev - 5 children

The soloist of the "Accident" group had a son in his first marriage. Kortnev did not have children with his second wife, but he gave birth to a son on the side, having an affair with a graduate of the Shchukin school. With a third wife, a champion in rhythmic gymnastics, Alexei had three children: two sons and a daughter.

26. Nicolas Sarkozy - 4 children

The former French president is the father of four. The ex-head of the French state was married three times. In his first marriage, he had two sons. With his second wife, he had a third son. Well, the third wife, the model Carla Bruni, gave birth to a cute daughter.

27. Bronislaw Komorowski - 5 children

Former President of Poland and his wife for many years, since Scouting. During the marriage, his wife Anna Dembovkskaya bore him five children: three girls and two boys.

28. Matteo Renzi - 3 children

The Italian prime minister is married to a simple teacher who gave birth to two sons and a daughter.

29. Meryl Streep - 4 children

The greatest actress of our time, winner of three Oscars, married to sculptor Don Gummer, gave birth to four children: a son and three daughters. The girls, like their mother, became actresses, and the son went headlong into music.

30. Alice Welch - 8 children

The famous photographer and blogger Alice Welch is also a super-mother of eight children. She had her firstborn at the age of 20, and all the children of the weather went one after another.

31. Ursula von der Leyen - 7 children

The second most popular female politician, after Angela Merkel, in Germany, who holds the post of Minister of Defense of Germany, is also the mother of seven children.

32. Andrei Konchalovsky - 7 children

Andrei was married 5 times, and all his spouses gave him seven heirs in total.

The list of stars with many children was incomplete without the “hard nut” Bruce Willis - the happy father of 5 daughters (!): three of them were born in marriage to Demi Moore, 2 more are now married to Emma Hemming.

Rounding out our list is the Terminator of All Time, former governor of California and blockbuster star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Married to Maria Shriver, 2 boys and 2 girls were born. In addition, not so long ago it became known about another son of the star, who was born as a result of adultery with a housekeeper.

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

The largest family in history

On one of the American TV channels there is even a program dedicated to the Duggar family “19 Kids and Counting”.

Another well-known 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 work. Guinness is the world famous beer brand.

The largest family in Russia

The family lives in big house, which was built many years ago on its own. The house is always impeccably clean and tidy. 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 eldest son is 35. He is the father of five children, in total, the Shishkins already have 23 grandchildren.

The largest father in the world

In 2012, his ninety-fourth child was born. Daad first married in 1967 at the age of 19, since then he had 18 life partners. According to Sharia law, a man can be married to four women at the same time, which Daad successfully used. A man is proud that he was able to adequately provide for all his wives and offspring. Each of his wives has a house, a car and financial assistance. This is largely possible thanks to the help of local sheikhs, who support the "super dad", as Daad was dubbed by the local media, 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, in 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 still, a large number of children in countries where polygamy is allowed does not strike our imagination as much as in monogamous families. So, for example, the peasant Yakov Kirillov was recognized as the largest 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 successive marriages. In this regard, at the age of 60, he was presented to the court.

The largest mother in the world

Another mother of many children is the 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.

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

IN different time, in different countries there are families who are not afraid to give life a large number children. And do not look at the same time on external circumstances and life difficulties.

But the youngest mothers do not always become large families. According to the site, 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 natives of a small British town in Lancashire have already promised that enough is enough - their 18th child will be their last. And after - no, no. But suddenly, when no one was waiting for him, bam - and the 19th appeared. Well, if this is the case, then it would be stupid not to give birth on the 20th, to round it up, so to speak.

The twentieth, Archie, should have definitely been the youngest. And suddenly in 2018 it turns out: Sue Radford is back in position. In November, she gave birth to baby Bonnie. And when the midwives began to ask whether to wait for her, according to tradition, on next year, happy mom said emphatically, “Not this time! We decided to stop." And ... again announced the pregnancy. 44-year-old Sue dreams of having a boy. Then she will have 11 children of each sex. By the way, after the ninth child, Noel had a vasectomy. But then he gave it back.

Sue and her husband Noel Radford got their first child when Sue was practically a child herself - she was only 14.

The Radford family in Britain are TV stars - for several years now, reality shows have been shown on TV about their lives. And although it is not easy to raise such a number of children, they do not ask for help from the state - there is enough money that the head of the family earns in the baking business.

Kelly and Jill Bates: 19 children

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The Bates family is well known in America - they are regular participants in the reality show about themselves Bringing Up Bates, which shows the life of a couple and their 19 children. Jill and Kelly are devout evangelists, so they believe that only the Lord God can limit a husband and wife in terms of childbearing. Which, as you can see, does not particularly limit them. Moreover, Kelly never had twins or triplets - she consistently gave out a baby a year.

The family lives in a spacious house with five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, two kitchens and five washing machines. They do not live in poverty, since Gil has his own logging company.

All of the Bates children were (and some still are) homeschooled. Four of the oldest have already started their own families, and most of the children are already over 18, so Kelly and Gil are not far off the prospect of becoming the most "multi-granddaughter" grandparents.

Ray and Janie Bonell: 16 children

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“I never dreamed of such a thing,” says Janie Bonell from Australia. - God has a great sense of humor. When I was a teenager, when I was asked if I wanted to have children, I usually answered: “No, I’m not interested.” I didn't like children, and they didn't like me either.

But her husband Ray grew up in a large family - it was he, overcoming the resistance of his wife, who initiated the birth of their first child. More precisely, the first-born - they immediately got twins, but Janie herself had already asked for a third child. The couple is so into the taste that now they have 16 children, and they are thinking about the 17th.

How do they manage to cope? "Lists! Janie says. We have lists of things to buy and do on the walls all over the place. There is also a duty schedule that helps children be responsible for themselves and their siblings.”

“Children start on duty at the age of 8, and at the age of 10 everyone can cook dinner for 20 people,” Janie says, adding that they usually spend about 600 Australian dollars (about ₽25 thousand) per week on food. .

Alexander and Elena Shishkin: 20 children

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The Shishkin family from the Voronezh region are two full-fledged football teams: 20 children and parents as playing coaches. We are joking - the whole family does not enter the football field, but thanks to its fertility it enters the Russian Book of Records.

Parents, their 9 sons and 11 daughters live in an 11-room house, they have a garden and a subsidiary farm with domestic animals. The economy requires a lot of strength, so Elena said in an interview more than once that she practically does not have time to raise children - the younger ones are raised by the older ones.

More than half of the children have already left and started their families (the eldest son is 40, and the youngest daughter is 15), but 9 children still live with their parents.

The father of the family worked as a driver all his life, now he and his wife are retired. Sponsors help the Shishkins - they pay for clothes and treatment, they built a playground. The authorities gave a large family a gazelle, but the zealous owners sold the car and bought it cheaper.

José Maria Postigo and Rosa Peak: 15 children

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Jose Maria had 16 brothers and sisters, and Rosa had 13, so it is not at all surprising that, having created their family, they immediately took up issues of increasing it. However, the beginning was tragic: their first three children were born with serious heart problems, two died as babies, only the eldest girl survived (she later lived only to 22 years).

Relatives and doctors tried to dissuade the couple from giving birth further, but they did not listen and turned out to be right - they had 15 perfectly healthy children. Now their family is the largest in Spain and one of the largest in Europe. To help other families who have children with heart problems, the couple has set up a charitable foundation.

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar: 19 children

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There are 10 boys and 9 girls in a large American family. The Duggars were real national stars, which, given the cult of the family that exists in this country, is not at all surprising: they starred in a reality show about their family, took part in the filming of many other shows and appeared on the covers of glossy magazines. And they would have remained stars, if not for one “but”.

At first, Jim Bob and Michelle did not want children - in their own words, after the wedding in 1984, they used birth control pills for several years - they say, now we will live for ourselves, and we will have children somehow later. However, after talking with the doctor, they suddenly realized that because of their selfishness they did not allow the child to be born, and since then their motto has become: "How much God will send." And God sent. It's funny, but all the children of Daggara are called with the letter J: Jill, Jessa, Jana, Josh, Ginger, Joy Anna, Josie, John, Jordyn, Josiah, Jackson, Jedidiah, Jason, Joseph, Jeremiah, Jennifer, Justin, Joanna, James.

In 2015, the star of the family's fame went down: a scandal erupted due to the inappropriate behavior of one of the couple's sons. Extremely unpleasant details surfaced and the show about the Duggars was taken off the air.

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The largest family in history

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The record belongs to our compatriots - the family of Russian peasants Vasiliev, who lived in the XVIII century, who had 69 children, including 16 twins and 7 triplets. And only two children died in infancy.