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Michigan couple welcomes their 13th son
cnn ^ | May 14, 2015

Posted on 05/15/2015 2:51:58 AM PDT by SMGFan

CNN)—They already have enough sons to field a baseball team. And if their streak continues, they'll be able to add a basketball team, too.

Kateri and Jay Schwandt, a Michigan couple with 12 sons and no daughters, welcomed their 13th child Wednesday morning.

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Wow, how much does it cost to raise these children each year.
1 posted on 05/15/2015 2:51:58 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

What difference does it make?


2 posted on 05/15/2015 2:55:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("He's not my prophet, he's just some dead bloke." ~ Mark Steyn)
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my friends family had 8 kids between 1957 to 1967 and my friend’s father worked 2 jobs for 20 years . From 8 am to 11pm. Monday to Friday. It cost much more to raise a child in the 2000’s


3 posted on 05/15/2015 2:59:48 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
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Having lots of children is great, and it also is God's command to be fruitful and multiply.

Those that have them through fornication, adultery, and raise them without working themselves but through government welfare have ruined our society (debt, crime, schools, drugs, housing, culture, etc.


4 posted on 05/15/2015 3:00:07 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Your instant response ... “Cost!!!” ... reminds me of the “Gilligan’s Island” episode in which the Professor psychoanalyzed Mr. Howell. His free association exercise went something like:

“Happiness”
“Money”
“Love”
“Money”
“Family”
“Money”
“Children”
“Tax deduction”


5 posted on 05/15/2015 3:12:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("He's not my prophet, he's just some dead bloke." ~ Mark Steyn)
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To: SMGFan

A whole team!


6 posted on 05/15/2015 3:18:25 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: SMGFan

God bless them! Actually, He HAS!


7 posted on 05/15/2015 3:40:55 AM PDT by sneakers
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here
8 posted on 05/15/2015 3:58:48 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: SMGFan

How much does it cost to not raise them?


9 posted on 05/15/2015 4:04:41 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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Actually the younger kids wear hand me downs from the older kids, and they also get their old toys. So not that much $$$ to have a lot of kids vs a couple of kids. Until COLLEGE! Then LOOK OUT.


10 posted on 05/15/2015 4:06:58 AM PDT by buffyt (Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat... $18 trillion = enslavement of our children to DEBT.)
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Oh what a wonderful family! I hope they have a girl this time!


11 posted on 05/15/2015 4:07:27 AM PDT by sneakers
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I’m raising 12 although the oldest 2 are grown and gone. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune.


12 posted on 05/15/2015 4:07:30 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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OOPS! I see they had a 13th SON lol!


13 posted on 05/15/2015 4:08:33 AM PDT by sneakers
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To: SMGFan

7 billion is the current world population with a billion added every 10 years which will soon be every 9 years then 8 the higher that number goes. We are at a point now where 3rd world nations are overflowing into the developed countries with real estate costs virtually unaffordable as they have tripled, some places quadrupled in the past 20 years alone. Today a college degree is completely useless because pretty much no matter what degree you have, there are a 1000 other people just like you vying for the same job. Traffic gets worse and worse every year where pretty soon traveling 10 mph will be the norm on every highway and street. As that population number grows the poverty rate will skyrocket but it will not thwart population growth, in fact it will boost it where eventually we will reach a tipping point where money will no longer be the currency for trade but violence which we are seeing signs of already. Thank God for breeding cows like this who make sure we get there faster.


14 posted on 05/15/2015 4:23:30 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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"Thank God for breeding cows like this who make sure we get there faster."

You must be with the Chinese government.

15 posted on 05/15/2015 4:37:49 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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Really! We need as many white males and females as possible, provided they are not being raised by faggy men and lesbians!

Another thing, why is everyone so worried about how it costs to raise them? On this forum? Really? All the big families I know are basically happy. No one is happy 24/7.

College? They can get a job, scholarship, work their way through, join the military.

No wonder this country is so screwed up! Everyone requires being babied until they are 30.

College has never been easy to pay for. Nor is it automatically a good idea for every kid. We need welders and linemen. College is for the Democrats to indoctrinate your children into being good little communists!

16 posted on 05/15/2015 4:49:28 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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If this family does have a little girl I will bet that she will be one spoiled rotten but well protected girl. God help the boy who tries to date her.


17 posted on 05/15/2015 4:54:34 AM PDT by BBell (Cult of the Sacred Drunken Wookiee)
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Those that have them through fornication, adultery, and raise them without working themselves but through government welfare have ruined our society (debt, crime, schools, drugs, housing, culture, etc.

The politicians who extended the welfare benefits (in exchange for votes) are primarily responsible.

18 posted on 05/15/2015 4:57:44 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were judged by the content of their character.)
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Paul Ehrlich? Paul? Is that you?


19 posted on 05/15/2015 4:58:48 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You mean now?" (In response to being asked what time it was) - Yogi Berra)
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Wow, how much does it cost to raise these children each year.

Not as much as some think, while we do not have 13, we have a lot of kids, it is not nearly as expensive, per child, as it is to have only one or two.

20 posted on 05/15/2015 5:09:24 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (In an Oligarchy, the serfs don't count.)
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