The largest families in the world: the top 10. Is it important to have many children?

The family is the unit of society, its foundation. Everything that happens within it is reflected in society, since the latter is formed by hundreds of thousands, millions of such cells. In this article we will compile an unusual list of the most prolific marital unions and learn about the most large families in the world (and in history). I wonder who was not afraid of a large number of descendants and a large-scale continuation of a kind? Let's start our top-ten "The biggest families in the world".

Vasilyevs from Russia

In the XVIII century, this family set a world record. He has not been beaten yet. The huge family of Vasilyevs from Shuya County is opened by our top list "The World's Biggest Families". The wife of the peasant Vasiliev gave birth to 69 children! And so many descendants have been born for only 40 years. How is this possible ?! This is explained by several multiple pregnancies of a peasant woman: 4 times 4 children were born, triplets appeared 7 times, 16 cases when twins came to this family. After the death of his first wife, peasant Vasiliev married for the second time - from this marriage, 18 more children were born. As a result, Fedor Vasiliev was the father of 87 children.

Leontines from Chile

Our list of "The largest families in the world" is the next Chilean couple of prolific parents of the Leontines. At the beginning of the 20th century a 64th child was born in a friendly and large family. However, only 55 children were officially registered. This is not surprising or suspicious, since such a situation with "unofficial" offspring is quite common in Chile.

Gravata from Italy

Around the same time, in the twenties of the twentieth century, a 62-year-old baby was born in the family of Gravata in Palermo. Throughout her life, Rosa's mom produced one gear, five fingers, a quarter and twice triplets, the rest of the delivery brought one child at a time.

Kirillovs from Russia

And again a large couple from Russia! In the XVIII century on the territory of our country in the village of Vvedensky lived and famous for the peasant family of Yakov Kirillov. He continues our list of "The World's Biggest Families". In total, the peasant had 72 children in his 60s. The first wife gave him 57 children, and 15 - the second. It was for these successes that Yakov Kirillov was noted at the court of Catherine II.

Pomegranate from Italy

Italy is not far behind! The next large family abroad by the name of Granata continues our top list. In 1832 they had a 52-year-old child by account.

Mott from the UK

The English Elizabeth and John Mott concluded a marriage in 1676. They did not regret their decision. As a result of their family life, 42 healthy children were born.

Greenhill from the UK

Another English couple with many children. Spouses Greenhill, who lived in the UK in the XVII century, produced 39 children. So they got into our unusual prolific list.

Daad Mohamed Al-Balushi from the UAE

In the United Arab Emirates in 2012, a huge family of Daad Mohamed Al-Balushi was born 94-th child. Despite such a large number of children, this prolific father is not in the first place due to the fact that 18 wives provided such a large number of children to each other after successive divorce. According to Sharia law, a man could have 4 official wives at the same time. However, due to large offspring, he continues our top list "The World's Biggest Families".

Zion Khan from Indonesia

Today in the Indian village, similar views of Da'ad Mohamed al-Balushi are shared by Zion Khan, the founder of a sect who, according to the laws of his religious cell, can have an unlimited number of wives. His large family lives in a one-room modest house: there are 38 women of Zion who gave birth to their husband a total of 94 children. This many children father does not want to stop and intends to continue his family.

Mulay from Morocco

In the 18th century, Morocco was ruled by the brutal sultan Moulay Ismail, the owner of hundreds of wives and concubines. The Guinness Book of Records reflected on its pages the following figures: the Sultan gave life to 700 boys and 342 girls. However, according to historical notes, half of the children born of concubines were not officially registered. The information reflects that every 4 days in the life of Moulay Ismail his child was born. Be that as it may, he is the world's largest father in the world, and his many-thousand-strong relationship with his wives and children is the largest family in the world in the whole history, though in the unusual meaning of this word (for us, marriage is a mono union ).

Large families in the past

Long ago it was believed that the family should be large and large families - it is easier to live together in a big world together. When one performs his duties, things are faster and more convenient. The craft (and this is training) and the conduct of business in the world (society) was transferred from grandfathers and father to sons and grandchildren, and household management and all women's everyday wisdoms roamed from grandmothers and mothers to daughters and granddaughters. This was the transfer of knowledge, skills, and culture. Upbringing and teaching the younger (by work, by example, by mutual assistance, through communication with each other) took place interactively, right before our eyes. It did not depend on the population layers. Who had the opportunity to receive education from other teachers and professionals, they certainly received it, but it was additional, developing, expanding the boundaries of the knowledge that already existed. The development of generations went like this.

Many children in our days

Over time, everything has changed: social conditions, social attitudes and demographic worldview. Now in Russia, a large family is considered a family, which grows up from three children and more. Not all are solved for such quantity of children. It will be more correct to say that few people decide. Large families in Russia only 7-9 percent of all existing. Such a situation reflects a lot of social factors: it is an insufficient amount of finances earned, and the deterioration of the environment that affects the health of women and men in their reproductive years, and the emancipation of women working on a par with men, rather than at home and raising children , As well as the appearance of negative attitudes towards large families.

With regard to our topic, you can, perhaps, a little more detail on the last factor. For what reason did negative attitudes towards large families form in society? The fact is that in the last decades such "social cells" are mistakenly associated with the disadvantaged. This was due to the loss of some moral and moral figures by some members and due to a lack of upbringing. Such couples, giving birth to children, do not engage in their upbringing and development (often later on without the participation and assistance of the second parent). Sometimes a large number of children can even be explained by existing benefits (the state allocates special subsidies to large families for support purposes). Such a child, of course, having an unfavorable example before his eyes, as a rule, repeats it in his life.

However, it is a mistake to judge a whole category of large families on certain disadvantaged representatives. But in order for a shift in the perception of society to occur, again, successful examples in the education and overcoming of common everyday difficulties by families with many children are needed, and this is not a quick thing, it's the whole era.