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  • Ukrainian couple has 17th child, lays claim to largest US family

    12/17/2005 12:16:57 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 131 replies · 3,305+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/17/05 | AFP
    SACRAMENTO, United States (AFP) - Complete with proud smiles and self-conscious glances, Vladimir and Zynaida Chernenko's seventeen children were introduced to the world. Cradled delicately in Vladimir Chernenko's thick arms was his baby, David, whose birth on December 7 gave the Ukrainian-American family the largest brood in the United States, according to the Russian language newspaper The Speaker. "When we got married back in the Ukraine, for six month we had no children and thought we wouldn't have any kids at all," Vladimir told reporters at a celebration in Bethany Slavic Missionary Church in Sacramento. "I never thought I would...