Last night I watched 'The worlds biggest family and me'

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Ok so this is a 4 part episode and I saw it advertised and thought it would be interesting to watch. this bloke Mark Dolan travelled around the world to see big families with 10 or more children in and find out why they are having large families. Two of the families, one had 10 children and another had 15 (2 had died) were Christians and believed it was what God wanted, they said He was blessing them with all these children. Even though one of these families has a heart illness which affected most of the children they still were taking the risks to have children and still wanted more. One of these families home schooled their children. Another family, a man was father to 84 children though he had 17 wives. in his culture you can marry 4 women at the same time which he did and once they couldn't bare him anymore children he divorced them and married again. He plans to have 100 children by 2010 and wanted to be known for something, have a record or something. He struggled to remember all his children's names, most of them lived with him but obviously the grown up children had moved out and had families of there own. One of the families dressed their children in the same clothes so that they are easy to spot, they had pink tops one on day. Another day they had orange trousers with white and orange stripy tops. In one family they shared beds, a 21 year old girl shared with her 19 year old. What do you think about large families, one of these families both parents were from large families themselves so they knew the struggles and such of so many siblings but yet they still decided to have large families. Its not too bad as all the older children help out. Im going to make sure I watch the last episode next week and might watch the 2 episodes that I missed on the computer. It opened my eyes and made me realise that as one of the mothers said people with 1,2,3 children complain they are tired, imagine how tired tshe must be. I think they worked out that she had spent 19 years being pregnant!!!