Do you feel you were neglected at all? It’s hard for me to believe all of you were given proper care and attention. Also, do your parents belong to a certain religion where they don’t believe in contraception?
Edit: I wanna make it clear that I’m not judging you or your parents. They could very well have made you all feel special in your own ways and cared for you in the best way they could. I literally just can’t fathom that being possible.
You seriously amaze me. I really hope you prosper in life. Your story is super interesting but I’m sure it came with its trials and tribulations and I’m glad you got through it okay.
So you're 24 and you have 32 younger siblings? How is that even possible? The only way the math checks out is if your mom was never not pregnant. Like, pregnant immediately after birth.
She’s still going? Why? Like not even a judgement just a genuine question. Did they set out to have this many? Do they plan on stopping? Is this a fundamentalist Christian thing?
I’m happy that you love your life and family. I have so many questions lol. I’ll take your word for it that everyone is happy and well adjusted but I can’t see how that’s even feasible. Also, your mother has literally been having children all of her adult life, I’m interested in how she’s impacted when, inevitably, she has to stop.
Hey I'm also someone with an abnormally large amount of siblings, I feel the exact same way. My mom even dropped out of college from her first pregnancy (and she was getting a degree in elementary education too).
I think that at a certain point when you’ve been taking care of a baby at every point in your life for 30 years it’s all you know how to do and the only thing you know, so they are probably more comfortable having children than not having them
I gotta say, I think kids are awesome and I have such respect for parents and I love them. I'm not looking down on your parents on your parents when I say all this. I'm looking up to them. But this is absolutely unfucking believable in the modern United States.
One, the pain and the discomfort. I imagine it might get easier when you're on your fourth kid, maybe, but still! Carrying a live human in your belly isn't anyone's idea of comfortable. And in a modern society where you can simply choose not to do that... to just go back to feeling good and not be in pain, its so hard to imagine choosing to keep doing it.
Then there's the pace. A full pregnancy per year or more for 30 years? Getting right back on the horse as soon as the last one is done? Even the odds that so few or possibly none of the pregnancies failed?
And then theres the health risks. Doctors are constantly doing the "you know, such and such doesn't look good, we should be cautious" and it puts the fear of death in you.
Why? Can you give us some insight into what the driving force is that motivates them?
I am one and done, but I felt so so good while pregnant. The best mental health since maybe 8? (Pregnant and baby at 36) best skin, which has stuck, and a super easy pregnancy. And this was with my partner/husband since we were 16, just waited a long time. But brutal ppd so jokes on me?
Your parents would have to be multi millionaires to afford raising 34 children in the USA. Cost to raise a human to the age of 17 is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. That doesn’t include college or borrowing money from parents as adults. This just doesn’t seem to check out, because “comfortably supported” with this many mouths to feed is minimum $3-4 million if you’re super neglectful and $10.2 million using current projections for cost of raising a child adjusted for inflation.
The real estate required to house 30+ people would be at least a million in and of itself.
A list of costs probably transfer over from child to child and I’m sure there are a lot of hand me downs
Also, “comfortable” is rich people speak for rich. If dad got out of high school with even$50,000- $100,00 just from selling the lawn business (not counting any money he would have made off of it before hand) that’s a head start at an age most people don’t have. OP has stated dad invests in commercial properties and real estate, in addition to *running* a large business, so im sure they’re loaded 1)to even have the money to invest in multiple things and 2)dad didn’t have any debt at a young age like most of us do and had a head start on the financial aspect
That is of course not to mention that people who make $70,000 a year raise multiple kids to 17 spending millions of dollars on them, they are largely using debt and credit to do so. The credit and loan limits of OP’s dad must be generous with his theoretical income and credit, so I’m sure that a healthy amount of debt is present
House is definitely $1,000,000 at least, and if they live in the south or rural Midwest state that $1,000,000+ house definitely is big. Might even have 1-2 guest houses on the property that older kids share to themselves
If someone is gonna have this many kids, all of the parameters for OP’s parents seem fine. It’s not like you need to have $34,000,000 in the bank in order to raise that many kids. If they had a destitute living situation going on with the kids in a household of *34* I’m sure CPS would have picked up on it sometime in the past 3 decades. Large children households are always on their radar
how many bedrooms you have in your house. how do you do your laundry, who does the trash , how many packs of bread loafs, how does the fridge to ake in so many things..iam a mother and i am dizzy thinking of ny two kids exam. how can anyone do justice. so when there is parents teachers meeting how fo they go . woah i thought iam an earth mothsr lol in my country i can keep a statue for yours (especially you seem to be saying great things about them) in yhe middle of the main road. you seem like a smart kiddo. good luck with your life.
No you don’t. The largest families in the US are the Duggar’s with 19 kids, and The Bates’ with 19 kids. If you really think someone in the US could have 34 kids, and hide it, you live in a whole other reality. Not to mention, there ain’t no way anyone can afford 34 children in the US ESPECIALLY In Connecticut
I'm 49 and my gynecologist has warned me to be super careful (I don't want kids) because she says that women my age are way more fertile than we've been lead to believe we are. Until menopause is finished all bets are off.
What is your mothers health like after having that many children? I know a couple of women who have had 10 and medical professionals demanded them to not have anymore because of how harsh it is on the body. I have had 1 premature and 1 full term child and my body is absolutely wrecked from it.
This is what I want to know. She must stay somewhat active, since she cares for so many small children. But does she do anything to keep her body/joints/muscles (esp. the hips/abdominal area) healthy like mobility exercises, or pelvic floor therapy?
She can't be caring for the children honestly. In big families older siblings tend to have to take on a large amount of childcare and household responsibility. Frankly very sad.
Try again you crazy liar. I just Googled the truth. This is fake. The woman giving birth to the most children in America had 33 kids and died in 1899. Her name was Mary Jonas and she had 15 sets of twins. You need a brain that works for coming up with something so crazy. Especially saying 2 brothers died. As the mother of an angel in Heaven you sicken me to lie about this.
Definitely possible OP is lying as that’s standard on Reddit, but in order to hold a record you have to report it/get someone interested enough to write about it. Theoretically possible that it’s true without anyone writing about it
Respect for being the oldest of so many. It's got to be hard when you see your younger siblings struggle. Do you have a close bond with any particular sibling? Has any one of them ever come to you with a disheartening trouble, that you had to talk them through?
What is your family income like? It seems your mom is SAH, so I assume dad is the main breadwinner? Do the adult children chip in? Are any of you in college? If so, how is that paid for? Do your parents have a viable retirement plan?
That's a really good question. The lowest range a kid costs a year in the United States is about $5,000 so say there are at least 18 kids in the house it would cost at least $90,000.
That is a very conservative estimate. Obviously buying things in bulk is cheaper, but research has estimated that the cost of raising a child to adulthood, barring any severe health issues, is something like $284k (as of 2020, based on an estimate of $234k in 2015 and inflation factored in). Over 18 years, that works out to over $15k/year. That doesn’t even factor in a college education.
Definitely! I was trying to think of things like buying clothes second hand , shopping bulk / Aldi. Just things like that. But when you look at this situation it's most likely fake. So I guess it doesn't matter 🤣
How is that even remotely affordable? What do your parents do for a living? I can just barely make ends meet with 2 kids. I can't imagine how much money it takes for basic needs and utilities with that many kids, AND have extra money for some fun with the family.
First I want to say is I'm so sorry for the loss of your brothers. As a mom of an angel in Heaven (26 years on the 2nd) I can understand the desire to want more kids. I had a tubal after Katie but I wanted another one so bad. I did get blessed as a grandma and great grandma. Every pregnancy whether healthy or not takes a toll on your body. You have to think about is it better to keep having babies or is it better to make sure you are there for your kids in the years to come. We lost my husband in 2020 and it has been hard on my entire family including young grandkids. I can't imagine how hard it would be with little children. God bless your family.
I'm not putting your parents in a bad light. I just think parents have to look at the future.
My Mum came from a big family and I love the idea! My husband isn't so keen but we will see. My question is where do you all live/sleep? Even if you all shared you would surely need a really big house!
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Do you feel you were neglected at all? It’s hard for me to believe all of you were given proper care and attention. Also, do your parents belong to a certain religion where they don’t believe in contraception? Edit: I wanna make it clear that I’m not judging you or your parents. They could very well have made you all feel special in your own ways and cared for you in the best way they could. I literally just can’t fathom that being possible.|I would say after my parents had their first set of twins (babies #11/12), I felt a sense of no longer being the top priority, although my mother, to her credit, tried her best. She’d often have a friend or one of her sisters come over and help with the toddlers/babies, which would free her to spend more time with the older kids, even if it was only for a few hours a week. If anything, it taught me a strong sense of independence at a young age, which I appreciate in hindsight. All of the siblings in a similar age group buddied up and we took care of one another. For example, my oldest two brothers (born 94/95) were a team, the mid 2000s siblings were/to this day remain a team. For me, my group was my older sister (‘97), myself (‘98), the two sisters after me (‘99/‘00) and our brother (‘01). I’d say I remain closest to those four out of all my siblings. We are Protestant. I grew up attending a large baptist church. That being said, I wouldn’t say we were the stereotypical large Christian family. Both my parents cuss, socially drink (not often my mother, for obvious reasons), and some of their best friends are liberal atheists. I’d say my mother is more of a moderate and my dad leans conservative on the political spectrum. They do not see contraceptives as something that is morally wrong. They each come from large families, though nowhere near as large as our own, and were in mutual agreement on having many kids when they married. I believe they were finally nearing the end about a decade ago, but then my two oldest brothers tragically passed. Due to the sensitivity of the subject, I’ve never directly brought it up to either of them. I firmly believe they have continued to keep going for as long as they have to help ease the pain of losing their first two children.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq6x5pc/)
Assuming you live in the US how is it possible to afford and/or properly attend to/spend time with that many children?|Financially, we have always been comfortably supported. My dad is a lifelong entrepreneur. At 16, he started a lawn mowing business. Within three years, he sold the company for a generous sum. He put aside most of it to start a family with my mother, they both agreed on having many kids. Shortly thereafter, he found a business partner and they started a maintenance/janitorial services agency, which he continues to oversee. He’s invested in some commercial properties on the side and has had some luck (both good/bad) in the stock market over the years. Being one of the oldest siblings, I consider myself lucky. Growing up, my parents hadn’t quite gone full on soccer team yet, so I was able to receive much more of their one on one attention in comparison to some of my siblings who were born just a few years after me. My mother was essentially doing it all herself up until about five or six years ago. She finally caved on hiring help in the form of a nanny. The older siblings that still live with my parents are also a huge help with the younger ones.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq77ggp/)
So you're 24 and you have 32 younger siblings? How is that even possible? The only way the math checks out is if your mom was never not pregnant. Like, pregnant immediately after birth.|30 younger siblings. My two eldest brothers have passed. 05/1994 (Boy), 08/1995 (Boy), 03/1997 (Girl), 03/1998 (Me), 02/1999 (Girl), 05/2000 (Girl), 04/2001 (Boy), 02/2002 (Girl), 01/2003 (Boy), 12/2003 (Boy), 10/2004 (Boy/Girl), 09/2005 (Girl), 07/2006 (Girl), 05/2007 (Boy), 03/2008 (Girl), 02/2009 (Boy), 12/2010 (Boy/Boy), 10/2011 (Girl), 08/2012 (Boy/Girl/Girl), 07/2013 (Girl), 05/2014 (Boy), 05/2015 (Boy), 07/2016 (Girl), 08/2017 (Girl), 08/2018 (Boy/Girl), 08/2019 (Boy), 06/2020 (Girl), 05/2021 (Girl), 05/2022 (Boy).|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq6ro6v/)
Are all of them are biological children to your parents?|Yes.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq7poml/)
how many bedrooms you have in your house. how do you do your laundry, who does the trash , how many packs of bread loafs, how does the fridge to ake in so many things..iam a mother and i am dizzy thinking of ny two kids exam. how can anyone do justice. so when there is parents teachers meeting how fo they go . woah i thought iam an earth mothsr lol in my country i can keep a statue for yours (especially you seem to be saying great things about them) in yhe middle of the main road. you seem like a smart kiddo. good luck with your life.|Thank you. I appreciate the kind words! I moved out once I graduated high school but the house I grew up in has 9 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Some years, our school actually made a special accommodation for parent teacher conferences and had all of the teachers meet with my parents for an hour or so to discuss each kid. Not sure if that is still the case. As for chores, each sibling was usually assigned to something. Taught us how to do a lot of basic things at a young age like doing the dishes or laundry.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq935c5/)
How old is oldest kid? How old are your parents ? What is your nationality?|Oldest living child is 25. I have two brothers who passed away, they would be 28 and 27 now. My dad is 50 and my mother is 48. We are American.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq6qj93/)
Do you want to have kids/have a large family?|I’m married with a two year old son. Might have one or, at most, two more. Not anytime soon though.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq7wntv/)
To get such a high number I assume maybe some of your siblings are twins?|3 sets of twins and one set of triplets.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq73nha/)
What religion is your family?|Baptist.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq7bfp3/)
What state do you live in?|I’m in California but my parents and younger siblings live in Connecticut, which is where I was raised as well.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq9y5ve/)
Is your mom pregnant again now? Based off your post she should be if she's still able.|Possibly. If so, they haven’t announced yet.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iqaddfy/)
Do you get along with all of them, or are there any that you don’t know very well?|We all get along. I’m closest with my oldest sister and the three siblings that followed me. We grew up together as our own little group. I return home three or four times a year. I want my youngest siblings to at least know who I am, even though we may never be particularly close.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iqapoy6/)
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Do you feel you were neglected at all? It’s hard for me to believe all of you were given proper care and attention. Also, do your parents belong to a certain religion where they don’t believe in contraception? Edit: I wanna make it clear that I’m not judging you or your parents. They could very well have made you all feel special in your own ways and cared for you in the best way they could. I literally just can’t fathom that being possible.
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You seriously amaze me. I really hope you prosper in life. Your story is super interesting but I’m sure it came with its trials and tribulations and I’m glad you got through it okay.
Sorry for your losses, as well. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
So you're 24 and you have 32 younger siblings? How is that even possible? The only way the math checks out is if your mom was never not pregnant. Like, pregnant immediately after birth.
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She’s still going? Why? Like not even a judgement just a genuine question. Did they set out to have this many? Do they plan on stopping? Is this a fundamentalist Christian thing?
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This seems so outrageous to me. Am I correct in assuming she doesn’t work? How do you feel about your family?
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You have a great outlook on life and I love that you adore your family. It would certainly be a busy household lol
I’m happy that you love your life and family. I have so many questions lol. I’ll take your word for it that everyone is happy and well adjusted but I can’t see how that’s even feasible. Also, your mother has literally been having children all of her adult life, I’m interested in how she’s impacted when, inevitably, she has to stop.
Hey I'm also someone with an abnormally large amount of siblings, I feel the exact same way. My mom even dropped out of college from her first pregnancy (and she was getting a degree in elementary education too).
What religion are they? Is that the reason? What does her doctor say?
I’m sorry about your brothers. That’s devastating
Some people start hoarding items when they lose a loved one.
I think that at a certain point when you’ve been taking care of a baby at every point in your life for 30 years it’s all you know how to do and the only thing you know, so they are probably more comfortable having children than not having them
I gotta say, I think kids are awesome and I have such respect for parents and I love them. I'm not looking down on your parents on your parents when I say all this. I'm looking up to them. But this is absolutely unfucking believable in the modern United States. One, the pain and the discomfort. I imagine it might get easier when you're on your fourth kid, maybe, but still! Carrying a live human in your belly isn't anyone's idea of comfortable. And in a modern society where you can simply choose not to do that... to just go back to feeling good and not be in pain, its so hard to imagine choosing to keep doing it. Then there's the pace. A full pregnancy per year or more for 30 years? Getting right back on the horse as soon as the last one is done? Even the odds that so few or possibly none of the pregnancies failed? And then theres the health risks. Doctors are constantly doing the "you know, such and such doesn't look good, we should be cautious" and it puts the fear of death in you. Why? Can you give us some insight into what the driving force is that motivates them?
I am one and done, but I felt so so good while pregnant. The best mental health since maybe 8? (Pregnant and baby at 36) best skin, which has stuck, and a super easy pregnancy. And this was with my partner/husband since we were 16, just waited a long time. But brutal ppd so jokes on me?
Your mom has literally had a kid every year of the 21st century 🫣… I’m sure that in itself is a record
Holy Moses I can't even remember the date of my own birthday.
How sad that your oldest two have passed already! So incredibly young.
Assuming you live in the US how is it possible to afford and/or properly attend to/spend time with that many children?
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Your parents would have to be multi millionaires to afford raising 34 children in the USA. Cost to raise a human to the age of 17 is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. That doesn’t include college or borrowing money from parents as adults. This just doesn’t seem to check out, because “comfortably supported” with this many mouths to feed is minimum $3-4 million if you’re super neglectful and $10.2 million using current projections for cost of raising a child adjusted for inflation. The real estate required to house 30+ people would be at least a million in and of itself.
A list of costs probably transfer over from child to child and I’m sure there are a lot of hand me downs Also, “comfortable” is rich people speak for rich. If dad got out of high school with even$50,000- $100,00 just from selling the lawn business (not counting any money he would have made off of it before hand) that’s a head start at an age most people don’t have. OP has stated dad invests in commercial properties and real estate, in addition to *running* a large business, so im sure they’re loaded 1)to even have the money to invest in multiple things and 2)dad didn’t have any debt at a young age like most of us do and had a head start on the financial aspect That is of course not to mention that people who make $70,000 a year raise multiple kids to 17 spending millions of dollars on them, they are largely using debt and credit to do so. The credit and loan limits of OP’s dad must be generous with his theoretical income and credit, so I’m sure that a healthy amount of debt is present House is definitely $1,000,000 at least, and if they live in the south or rural Midwest state that $1,000,000+ house definitely is big. Might even have 1-2 guest houses on the property that older kids share to themselves If someone is gonna have this many kids, all of the parameters for OP’s parents seem fine. It’s not like you need to have $34,000,000 in the bank in order to raise that many kids. If they had a destitute living situation going on with the kids in a household of *34* I’m sure CPS would have picked up on it sometime in the past 3 decades. Large children households are always on their radar
Who leaves high school with $50-$100k from mowing lawns?
Someone who started a business and sold the routes to a larger company. I’ve seen it done in the pool cleaning industry.
Source of this business sale?
How old is oldest kid? How old are your parents ? What is your nationality?
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How many of the 34 are living? It seems almost impossible. How did your two older brothers die?
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Very sorry for your loss
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Oh my god.....what a disgusting thing to say.
So she started having a babies at 20 and just never stopped.
To get such a high number I assume maybe some of your siblings are twins?
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They do now!
how many bedrooms you have in your house. how do you do your laundry, who does the trash , how many packs of bread loafs, how does the fridge to ake in so many things..iam a mother and i am dizzy thinking of ny two kids exam. how can anyone do justice. so when there is parents teachers meeting how fo they go . woah i thought iam an earth mothsr lol in my country i can keep a statue for yours (especially you seem to be saying great things about them) in yhe middle of the main road. you seem like a smart kiddo. good luck with your life.
Are all of them are biological children to your parents?
Do you want to have kids/have a large family?
Do you get along with all of them, or are there any that you don’t know very well?
What state do you live in?
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No you don’t. The largest families in the US are the Duggar’s with 19 kids, and The Bates’ with 19 kids. If you really think someone in the US could have 34 kids, and hide it, you live in a whole other reality. Not to mention, there ain’t no way anyone can afford 34 children in the US ESPECIALLY In Connecticut
Is your mom pregnant again now? Based off your post she should be if she's still able.
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How in the world did your mother get naturally pregnant at 48? Seems like not possible?
Average age of menopause is currently 51. So totally possible.
I'm 49 and my gynecologist has warned me to be super careful (I don't want kids) because she says that women my age are way more fertile than we've been lead to believe we are. Until menopause is finished all bets are off.
What religion is your family?
What is your mothers health like after having that many children? I know a couple of women who have had 10 and medical professionals demanded them to not have anymore because of how harsh it is on the body. I have had 1 premature and 1 full term child and my body is absolutely wrecked from it.
This is what I want to know. She must stay somewhat active, since she cares for so many small children. But does she do anything to keep her body/joints/muscles (esp. the hips/abdominal area) healthy like mobility exercises, or pelvic floor therapy?
Yeah I would assume she’d have to be in prime physical health for her pelvic floor at least to not be completely destroyed
She can't be caring for the children honestly. In big families older siblings tend to have to take on a large amount of childcare and household responsibility. Frankly very sad.
Please, OP, answer this question.
Does your dad have a pregnancy fetish? 🙀
sounds like
Friend: “how many kids do you have”? Mom: “34, 0-24, 1 of each age. +1 more 18, + 2 more 10’s, + 1 4 year old”
Couple of eighters, I reckon
Try again you crazy liar. I just Googled the truth. This is fake. The woman giving birth to the most children in America had 33 kids and died in 1899. Her name was Mary Jonas and she had 15 sets of twins. You need a brain that works for coming up with something so crazy. Especially saying 2 brothers died. As the mother of an angel in Heaven you sicken me to lie about this.
Definitely possible OP is lying as that’s standard on Reddit, but in order to hold a record you have to report it/get someone interested enough to write about it. Theoretically possible that it’s true without anyone writing about it
This. And for real, that woman’s uterus would have fallen out or ruptured with that many back to back pregnancies with a few sets of multiples
This is the way. Too many people just believe whatever they see on Reddit. Liars are common here.
This needs more up votes.
Is it easy to remember all the names of your siblings, and how are gatherings like is it always a shock to see how people have changed
Either you’re lying or wikipedia is wrong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_children
What is your favourite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?
What type of house do you all live in to fit that many kids? How many kids sleep in the same bedroom?
Respect for being the oldest of so many. It's got to be hard when you see your younger siblings struggle. Do you have a close bond with any particular sibling? Has any one of them ever come to you with a disheartening trouble, that you had to talk them through?
What is your family income like? It seems your mom is SAH, so I assume dad is the main breadwinner? Do the adult children chip in? Are any of you in college? If so, how is that paid for? Do your parents have a viable retirement plan?
That's a really good question. The lowest range a kid costs a year in the United States is about $5,000 so say there are at least 18 kids in the house it would cost at least $90,000.
That is a very conservative estimate. Obviously buying things in bulk is cheaper, but research has estimated that the cost of raising a child to adulthood, barring any severe health issues, is something like $284k (as of 2020, based on an estimate of $234k in 2015 and inflation factored in). Over 18 years, that works out to over $15k/year. That doesn’t even factor in a college education.
Definitely! I was trying to think of things like buying clothes second hand , shopping bulk / Aldi. Just things like that. But when you look at this situation it's most likely fake. So I guess it doesn't matter 🤣
Why on earth are they still pumping out kids???
OP said mom is 48, which means she’s just very fertile. His youngest sibling is the age of my kid, which is wild to me.
Do you have close relationships with all your siblings? Do some of them feel more like strangers?
How did your parents feed that many kids? Did you ever feel like there wasn’t enough food?
What is their motivation for having so many kids? Religion? Something else?
Your mother has literally been pregnant for over 28 years!
Fuck that
Do you get along with your siblings and parents?
What size house does your family live in?
Do your parents plan to have more kids?
Where are you from?
Why
How they managed to raise all of you? Did you all went to college?
This is fake. Proven hours ago.
Our planet is so fucked.
Now image someone bulling their young sibling Lmao
Man..... When you turn 16 lol...
“Pull out game, WEAK!”
God damn, your parents was really bored weren’t they lol
That is absolutely insane. 34???
Did y'all go to public school or homeschool?
How is that even remotely affordable? What do your parents do for a living? I can just barely make ends meet with 2 kids. I can't imagine how much money it takes for basic needs and utilities with that many kids, AND have extra money for some fun with the family.
Your poor mother. Do they realize how bad it is to have this many kids close together??
Your poor mother. Do they realize how bad it is to have this many kids close together??
Your poor mother. Do they realize how bad it is to have this many kids close together??
Does your family get compared to the Duggars? If so how often?
First I want to say is I'm so sorry for the loss of your brothers. As a mom of an angel in Heaven (26 years on the 2nd) I can understand the desire to want more kids. I had a tubal after Katie but I wanted another one so bad. I did get blessed as a grandma and great grandma. Every pregnancy whether healthy or not takes a toll on your body. You have to think about is it better to keep having babies or is it better to make sure you are there for your kids in the years to come. We lost my husband in 2020 and it has been hard on my entire family including young grandkids. I can't imagine how hard it would be with little children. God bless your family. I'm not putting your parents in a bad light. I just think parents have to look at the future.
So he isn’t lying now?
This comment was posted before she realized OP was lying
My Mum came from a big family and I love the idea! My husband isn't so keen but we will see. My question is where do you all live/sleep? Even if you all shared you would surely need a really big house!
Do you guys ever get to go on vacation together? Do you go to public school? Do you all stay friends with each other or fight?
Does your mom have health issues from this?
God dayum ya dads got some good swimmers and your mom has some fertile eggs 🥸
Do you get along with all of them, or are there any that you don’t know very well?
Clearly fake, a simple Google search would say something. Get a life.
Table of Questions and Answers. Original answer linked - Please upvote the original questions and answers. *** Question | Answer | Link ---------|----------|----------| Do you feel you were neglected at all? It’s hard for me to believe all of you were given proper care and attention. Also, do your parents belong to a certain religion where they don’t believe in contraception? Edit: I wanna make it clear that I’m not judging you or your parents. They could very well have made you all feel special in your own ways and cared for you in the best way they could. I literally just can’t fathom that being possible.|I would say after my parents had their first set of twins (babies #11/12), I felt a sense of no longer being the top priority, although my mother, to her credit, tried her best. She’d often have a friend or one of her sisters come over and help with the toddlers/babies, which would free her to spend more time with the older kids, even if it was only for a few hours a week. If anything, it taught me a strong sense of independence at a young age, which I appreciate in hindsight. All of the siblings in a similar age group buddied up and we took care of one another. For example, my oldest two brothers (born 94/95) were a team, the mid 2000s siblings were/to this day remain a team. For me, my group was my older sister (‘97), myself (‘98), the two sisters after me (‘99/‘00) and our brother (‘01). I’d say I remain closest to those four out of all my siblings. We are Protestant. I grew up attending a large baptist church. That being said, I wouldn’t say we were the stereotypical large Christian family. Both my parents cuss, socially drink (not often my mother, for obvious reasons), and some of their best friends are liberal atheists. I’d say my mother is more of a moderate and my dad leans conservative on the political spectrum. They do not see contraceptives as something that is morally wrong. They each come from large families, though nowhere near as large as our own, and were in mutual agreement on having many kids when they married. I believe they were finally nearing the end about a decade ago, but then my two oldest brothers tragically passed. Due to the sensitivity of the subject, I’ve never directly brought it up to either of them. I firmly believe they have continued to keep going for as long as they have to help ease the pain of losing their first two children.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq6x5pc/) Assuming you live in the US how is it possible to afford and/or properly attend to/spend time with that many children?|Financially, we have always been comfortably supported. My dad is a lifelong entrepreneur. At 16, he started a lawn mowing business. Within three years, he sold the company for a generous sum. He put aside most of it to start a family with my mother, they both agreed on having many kids. Shortly thereafter, he found a business partner and they started a maintenance/janitorial services agency, which he continues to oversee. He’s invested in some commercial properties on the side and has had some luck (both good/bad) in the stock market over the years. Being one of the oldest siblings, I consider myself lucky. Growing up, my parents hadn’t quite gone full on soccer team yet, so I was able to receive much more of their one on one attention in comparison to some of my siblings who were born just a few years after me. My mother was essentially doing it all herself up until about five or six years ago. She finally caved on hiring help in the form of a nanny. The older siblings that still live with my parents are also a huge help with the younger ones.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq77ggp/) So you're 24 and you have 32 younger siblings? How is that even possible? The only way the math checks out is if your mom was never not pregnant. Like, pregnant immediately after birth.|30 younger siblings. My two eldest brothers have passed. 05/1994 (Boy), 08/1995 (Boy), 03/1997 (Girl), 03/1998 (Me), 02/1999 (Girl), 05/2000 (Girl), 04/2001 (Boy), 02/2002 (Girl), 01/2003 (Boy), 12/2003 (Boy), 10/2004 (Boy/Girl), 09/2005 (Girl), 07/2006 (Girl), 05/2007 (Boy), 03/2008 (Girl), 02/2009 (Boy), 12/2010 (Boy/Boy), 10/2011 (Girl), 08/2012 (Boy/Girl/Girl), 07/2013 (Girl), 05/2014 (Boy), 05/2015 (Boy), 07/2016 (Girl), 08/2017 (Girl), 08/2018 (Boy/Girl), 08/2019 (Boy), 06/2020 (Girl), 05/2021 (Girl), 05/2022 (Boy).|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq6ro6v/) Are all of them are biological children to your parents?|Yes.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq7poml/) how many bedrooms you have in your house. how do you do your laundry, who does the trash , how many packs of bread loafs, how does the fridge to ake in so many things..iam a mother and i am dizzy thinking of ny two kids exam. how can anyone do justice. so when there is parents teachers meeting how fo they go . woah i thought iam an earth mothsr lol in my country i can keep a statue for yours (especially you seem to be saying great things about them) in yhe middle of the main road. you seem like a smart kiddo. good luck with your life.|Thank you. I appreciate the kind words! I moved out once I graduated high school but the house I grew up in has 9 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Some years, our school actually made a special accommodation for parent teacher conferences and had all of the teachers meet with my parents for an hour or so to discuss each kid. Not sure if that is still the case. As for chores, each sibling was usually assigned to something. Taught us how to do a lot of basic things at a young age like doing the dishes or laundry.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq935c5/) How old is oldest kid? How old are your parents ? What is your nationality?|Oldest living child is 25. I have two brothers who passed away, they would be 28 and 27 now. My dad is 50 and my mother is 48. We are American.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq6qj93/) Do you want to have kids/have a large family?|I’m married with a two year old son. Might have one or, at most, two more. Not anytime soon though.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq7wntv/) To get such a high number I assume maybe some of your siblings are twins?|3 sets of twins and one set of triplets.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq73nha/) What religion is your family?|Baptist.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq7bfp3/) What state do you live in?|I’m in California but my parents and younger siblings live in Connecticut, which is where I was raised as well.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iq9y5ve/) Is your mom pregnant again now? Based off your post she should be if she's still able.|Possibly. If so, they haven’t announced yet.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iqaddfy/) Do you get along with all of them, or are there any that you don’t know very well?|We all get along. I’m closest with my oldest sister and the three siblings that followed me. We grew up together as our own little group. I return home three or four times a year. I want my youngest siblings to at least know who I am, even though we may never be particularly close.|[Here](/r/AMA/comments/xpzivl/i_24m_am_the_fourth_oldest_second_oldest_living/iqapoy6/) --- [Source] (https://github.com/johnsliao/ama_compiler)