baddog, one of 12 children?
 

Just saw your post in another thread but didn't want to comment there. You're one of 12 children? I'm the oldest of 4 and our house was a zoo. I can't imagine 12, where did you place?

Anyone else have an entire football team plus one for siblings?

that's a big litter...

Nice to see you recognizing football :winkwink:

That's a lot of kids:)

Here is a photo of baddog in the middle, at 34 years old, during dinner.


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Back in the 19th century many families were doing it big. My mother has 6 brothers and 5 sisters... and that was in the 20th century.

African and Arabian leechers does that in 21 century, in Europe.

Well, back when Baddog was born things were much different. They didn't have electricity then so after they were done making butter, parents had nothing to do in the dark so they just fucked a lot. This worked out well because the infant mortality rate back then was really high, so the odds of a child living to age one was low so they just produced more kids.

1 of 8 myself :2 cents:

I'm one of only 2, but my parents are both one of 6 and I have 6 myself...I had a small immediate family (until I produced my own) but a ton of cousins. Mormons of course and 6 seemed to be the magic number for kids.

I hear his family all thought the world was flat, so his brother put baddog and his siblings on a boat to discover that it was in fact round. Baddog is still with us, but his brother Ferdinand has moved on, so they say.

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My mother was one of 14... yes that's right I said fourteen :ugone2far

Just in case the gene for fecundity was passed on I made condom use an imperative :helpme

I am thinking, if you have 11 bros and sisters, do you even know them well enough?

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let's just hope you dont accidently hit on your sister

I meant how well you know them compared to when you have 1 or 2 of them. Do you know them equally or do you spend most of your time with 4, average time with 4 and almost no time with the last 4. Just an example, but that should be new experience, that is why I am curious how it goes. It is hard to imagine :)

I'm 11 years older than my youngest brother, he's an accident. It was quite a difference when I was 16 and he was 5.

Pretty common for farmers in the 20s and 30s to have 10+ children. Free labor. My mother is 1 of 12.

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That's a big family.

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ADG

My kids' grandfather is one of 16. His mother lived to be 98.

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Hey Nathan Bedford Forrest,

Stupidity and leeching and not cultural traits.

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Just 50-60 years back, families were over 5 children each, almost 10 from house to house! Today you are happy to see 2-3 children max

I've known some big families, by nature there are going to be some big age gaps and no group of 12 people can be or are close to every one of the group. I think it's only possible to have a handful of close true friends, just isn't the time necessary to invest in and develop close friends and it's no different from what I've seen in big families.

I think being a member of a big family is a plus, you don't get too much attention, don't get spoiled and are forced to pitch in and help - at the same time you are more independent and more of a team player.

My were 5 children, we are 3....total 8 in two generation!

I was the eldest of the batch; which kind of explains why they had 12. Imagine me as your first kid, you would just want more and more of them.

My mom's sister married my dad's brother and they had 14. Family camping trips in Montana got pretty interesting.

Not really. I remember one time in high school I was working at McDonald's and we were having a rush and I was sent out into the lobbies to get orders started. I asked this kid what he wanted and it was one of my little brothers. I had not even recognized him.


I would not hit on a girl that looked like me.

19 years between the youngest and me, I was already moved out by the time she was born.

I am not sure I would call it a plus, but you definitely get accustomed to independence. That is part of the reason why I don't really know my siblings; I was never home. I had to have a part-time job if I wanted anything that was MINE. Christmas sucked because every gift was for Lloyd, Pat, Mike, Jerry & Steve unless it was socks.

Not sure if it is sarcasm not in place or... I had 24 classmates and I knew them well enough, so 11 brothers/sisters would be many times easier.

Not sarcasm at all. You had 24 kids, the same age as you, that you spend 7-8 hours a day with. How is that even close to being the same as 12 kids, 19 years apart, that you only saw once in a while?

Hell, I remember one time I came home from school and my mom told me she had been volunteering at the snack bar at my school and she thought some other kid was me!
True story.

That is why I was interested, must be a strange feeling :)

12 kids of her own and she did volunteer work - with more kids!..

She is either a saint or mad.....

so that story about the old lady in the shoe. baddog lived there? :helpme

Your mothers did a great job. Piriod.

Well, that is a topic for another thread.

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good times :2 cents:

Your mom still alive? It's a strange feeling when you lose her. Call her, stop by if close, even for a couple minutes. Trust me on this ?...

Sixteen on my dad's side, and ten on my mom's. Back in the day, those were average size irish families. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Hell, I have cousins that I have never met.

No, she died in December of 2009

Bingo

I have an uncle who is one of 18. Very poor dutch family, they used to hunt to feed the family when they first moved here--and not only deer and moose.. Kind of a crazy story there.

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My problem growing up was that I was an only child. Which I liked just fine most of the year. Except those few days when we'd go visit one of my father's two Irish brothers. I mention their nationality since it may help explain why one of them had 12 children and the other had 13.

So on those rare days it was easy for 12 or 13 children to remember one new name for their visiting cousin. But I had to match names with a dozen or more faces I hadn't seen in a year or so. And those years where we'd go visit both of his brothers during one trip were the worst.

I couldn't tell you all 25 of their names even today.

Sure, my father was Irish too. But evidently the Italian girl he married wasn't interested in fielding her own sports team. Plus they waited until they were in their late 30s before having their one child.

And yeah, his brothers and their wives thought it was the strangest thing.

ONE child?

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