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• Parenting trends: bigger families, hands-on fathers

  Published: August 14, 2007, 2:02 pm

  Tags: Australia, Babies, Baby Genius, Babygenius, Boomers, Children, Dad, Fathers, Herald Sun, Heraldsun, Involved Fathers, Involvedfathers, Large Families, Largefamilies, Literacy, Mom, Mothers, Parenting, Parenting Ideas, Parenting Trends, Parentingideas, Parentingtrends, Personal

  skills. He also predicts larger families for those who choose to reproduce. "The number of childless families will increase as people increasingly consider whether to be parents or not," he said. "But those who do have kids will have bigger families, with three being the norm again as it was when boomers had kids."Maybe as a result of all

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• Father of 78 wants 100 kids by 2015

  Published: August 20, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Blended Families, Blendedfamilies, Children, Large Families, Largefamilies, Multiple Children, Multiple Wives, Multiplechildren, Multiplewives

  about how looking after a large family would drive me insane, I secretly fantasize about having more kids. I think it'd be a blast to spend my days chasing after multiple rug rats. But I'm not sure I could handle 78. That's how many children Daad Mohammed Murad Abdul Rahman has with 15 wives (and ex wives -- local law says he can only have

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• 100-year-old man has 100 grand kids

  Published: September 4, 2007, 1:32 pm

  Tags: Grandchildren, Grandkids, Grandparents, Large Families, Largefamilies

  Filed under: Family togetherness, GrandparentsWe just visited my parents this weekend, allowing them to spend a little time with their one and only grandchild. They're not quite 50, so -- if mom and dad are ever going to live up to this guy -- that leaves my siblings and I roughly half a century to produce 99 offspring between the three of us.

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• Parenting Size Six: Stupid things strangers say

  Published: November 13, 2007, 12:31 pm

  Tags: Comments On Large Families, Commentsonlargefamilies, Family Size, Familysize, Large Families, Largefamilies, Things Parents Say, Thingsparentssay

  a family that is considered large by today's standards: four boys. For some reason, strangers on a near-daily basis feel the need to comment on this fact, usually in front of the kids. Here are some of the most frequent comments, and what the smart alecky responses I think in my head as I give a wan smile and quickly shepherd my brood away

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• Want to live to 100? Father more kids

  Published: November 19, 2007, 12:03 pm

  Tags: Big Families, Bigfamilies, Dads, Fathers, Large Families, Largefamilies, Multiple Children, Multiplechildren, Old Age, Oldage

  to make sense. After all, large families are a strain on parent's resources -- financially, physically, and emotionally -- and subsequently impact their longevity. However, it's also possible that having more kids means you're more likely to be looked after in old age, which could account for these surprising new statistics. So, hoping

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• Closing the door: How do you decide your family is complete?

  Published: May 4, 2008, 4:00 am

  Tags: Large Families, Largefamilies, Motherhood, Mothersday, Only Child, Onlychild, Pregnancy, When Your Family Is Complete, Whenyourfamilyiscomplete

  Filed under: Just for moms, Pregnancy and birth, Playground bureauMy nephew was born last December, a delicious addition to my brother's family. Whenever I see him, which is not often enough, I nuzzle the folds in his neck, breathing deep his new-baby smell. I work hard to make him smile and laugh -- he's four months old after all, just learning

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