Seventeen Children

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Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts

wow! That mom is like a queen bee. I would imagine that at some point you hit critical mass, and you have enough kids that are old enough to actually help do things like change diapers, etc.

The older kids girls are all assigned a younger sibling to take care of raise.

I saw some of that documentary. It is quite disturbing - the amount of isolation they have. Home school, home church and unlike the Amish I doubt they get to go out and decide for themselves if they would prefer to not live in such an environment.