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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What difference does it make?
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
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.
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”
A whole team!
God bless them! Actually, He HAS!
How much does it cost to not raise them?
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.
Oh what a wonderful family! I hope they have a girl this time!
I’m raising 12 although the oldest 2 are grown and gone. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune.
OOPS! I see they had a 13th SON lol!
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.
You must be with the Chinese government.
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!
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.
The politicians who extended the welfare benefits (in exchange for votes) are primarily responsible.
Paul Ehrlich? Paul? Is that you?
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.
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