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16 Children - All Names Start With J - Jeepers!

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

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British Columbia, Canada

0 posted 2005-10-13 12:25 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/parenting/10/12/sixteen.kids.ap/index.html

Gives me jitters

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

1 posted 2005-10-13 02:32 PM

My mother had 17 brothers and sisters...

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2005-10-13 02:37 PM

What a perfectly beautiful story~
Wishing I could have had even half that many~

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Cloud 9
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since 2004-11-05

Posts 980
Ca

3 posted 2005-10-13 05:59 PM

***chills***

two was enough for me.

*Alli4000*

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since 2004-03-21

Posts 3188
The World of Poetry

4 posted 2005-10-13 06:37 PM

Wow...

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

5 posted 2005-10-13 11:26 PM

You know, now that Susan mentioned her Mom I thought about my Gramma

Actually back in those days large families were the norm come to think of it weren't they? My Gramma was one of 14, and my Grampa was one of 12. Yet my grandparents children mostly had single child families (me being one,) and the odd one had two children. In those days they had less to work with, less money, and it worked. Now there is hardly time to get our two to all the classes they take, and I can't imagine a schedule of having to drive 17 to sports, school, etc. eek!

This woman deserves every single award she can get.

sweetpoetess
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since 2005-02-27

Posts 428
Florida

6 posted 2005-10-14 06:46 PM

After the 16th child I would have told him to stay the hell away from me. LOL I also would have gotten my tubes tied.

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Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

7 posted 2005-10-14 10:28 PM

My grandmother's neighbors had 15 children, and had two more still-births. It was great to go visit Grammie, because there was always someone to hang out with, no matter what our age... It's the strangest thing - I can still name them all... Jean, Norman, Cecile, Ron, Janice, Bob, Anne, Carl, Marie, Christine, Claire, Susie, Terry, Peter and Rose... Only the last two were twins. Silly the things we remember, isn't it?..

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