What is it like having lots of siblings?

[Charlavail]

Inspired by thinking about Nick Cannon having child number 11 on the way and rumoured to have another baby due as well. That means he will have 12 babies, 10 of which were born within the last 3 years. I don't think he will stop at 12 either.
Surely he can't be an attentive father to all of them? I feel stretched between 2 DC. I wonder if he will just throw money at them.

Not sure if you’re thread title really makes sense in this situation - having lots of siblings can be great/ not so great depending on many factors, the type of parents you have possibly being the greatest one. But Nick Cannon’s children won’t really know each other. And let’s be honest, they won’t know him that well either. They will have lots of half siblings - but never really experience what it’s like to have lots of siblings or even any siblings I’m some cases. The whole situation is a bit fucked up really.

I’m one of 5 that lived in my house. 4 older step siblings on one side, and 2 younger half siblings on the other side.

We all had wildly varied upbringings, different towns, different incomes, different combinations of parents, and there’s 27 years between the eldest and the youngest.

I’m the eldest of one “set” and the middle overall.

I have one sibling that I speak to regularly, he’s 18 months younger than me. We live far apart so lucky of I see him once a year.

I lived in the same small town as 6 of them for a few years and only saw them if I bumped into them.

I was only one of 3 but my best friend from childhood was one of 7. She found it nice/fun up until about 8-9 years old, after that it became much clearer to her how much less money they had to do fun things, how much less time her parents had to spend with her and just how little attention she got in general. Her parents never offered lifts to football tournaments, they never took her out on their own, she never had a birthday party with her friends, she just never had that individual attention which is so important to gain a sense of individuality and confidence. She was always just of the 7. She has two kids now, and definitely don’t want a big family, her siblings have either 0, 1, or 2 kids so even though there’s 7 of them the grandparents now only have 6 grandchildren.

Out of the 11 of us, 5 of us have children. I have 3, as do both of my brothers. One has 2, one has 1 child and 1 Grandchild. Of those 5, 4 had their first child at 16/17, and promptly moved out of whatever home they were in.

The younger siblings fared much better than us older ones on the face of it. Parents had more money, more space, but were also totally burnt out and so threw money at them. No second hand, don’t quite fit clothes for them, they had designer. Multiple extra curriculars rather than none.

But it has resulted in them being rather entitled little shits with not much of a work ethic (older ones all had jobs from around 14), don’t grasp the value/cost of anything, did shit at school (worse than the teen parents did) and seem stuck in a demanding teenager mindset despite being mid 20s.

I've never heard of this person, but now I'm wondering how on earth he has managed to have so many different children with so many different women so close together? WTF?

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I'm assuming NC's children aren't full siblings. They might not live together or have even met. I'm one of eight full siblings. I adore my siblings but growing up wasn't great when I look back. My eldest sister mostly raised me and we're very close. Apart from me (I have 3DC, full siblings, long marriage but with an 11year gap from DC1-3 so we had time to devote to each) all seven of my siblings have only children, read of that what you will.

He's obsessed with having kids, so I'd imagine he promises women vast sums of money to get pregnant.

I have seven siblings and never found it an issue when young. It was all l knew and there was always company, fun and action. My dps ere very organised so no chaos and while we weren't rich we had good food as my dm was a great cook and both parents were always around as we lived on a farm. As l grew up l have more and more appreciated all my siblings and really feel they have my back. There is a very close connection although we don't live in each others ear.
As my dps got elderly l totally appreciated them as it was all hands on deck and no one had an unreasonable burden.
None of us had more than 4 dc but we all were working outside the home so it wouldn't have been feasible. Different times.
Coming from a large family has been one of the joys of my life.

I'm the oldest of 7. Parents had money but wasted it so there was never enough to eat, for clothes etc. I was used as childcare and taken out of school a lot to help.
No privacy, no peace, the babies were the ones who got the love and after the age of about 4 you fended for yourself- or I did it for them.

I'm now the only one of my siblings to have children and I've only got one.

I'm 1 of 5. I love having a brother and 3 sisters.

Of course we all have our moments but there was no issues for time/attention.

We were well looked after and loved.

Hang on, so Mariah Careys ex with whom he had Roc and Roe (his shortening not mine) has basically had an overlapping string of gorgeous women have kids with him called Golden, Rise and Powerful, Legendary, Onyx, Zen, Zion and Zillion and there's at least one more on the way?

Does he ejaculate golden sperm???

I'd love to see some of those names on the Baby Names Board.

We're contemplating Zillion, middle name Heir.

I mean as long as these women are capable of raising their kids alone, I imagine Dad pops in a do it depending on their mother's sexual availability and possibly they'll all see each other a few times a year like cousins

I am one of six, we all have small families. You can be as nice as you like but you will never have much 1 to 1 time with each child. I thought it was crap.

Gosh Nick Cannon is so disgusting. Selfish pig. And all these stupid women having babies by him…

I’m another from a 5+ children family, full siblings. We had a horrid childhood in many ways but having lots of siblings was only ever a positive, for me at least. I adore them all and we’re all very close. The support from them growing up was fantastic. It’s not all doom and gloom!
One of my elder siblings says now that she didn’t feel there was enough one to one time but with a single working mother and absent father, I don’t expect there’d have been much one to one time for one from a smaller family either.

What is crossbreeding?

Cross breeding is when you breed two different breeds or species so a dalmatian with an alsatian or a lion with a tiger

I'm one of 6, 5 years between us all. Growing up it was great, holidays were amazing, Christmas and things were a lot of fun. As an adult we've all drifted apart as we live in different countries and have quite different lives. I miss them all like mad, feel lonely a lot of the time, and Christmas will never ever feel like it's quite right again.

I didn’t say crossbreeding I said gross breeding fetish lol . As in Nick cannon has a fetish for getting lots of different women pregnant and that I thought that was gross 🤢

Dh is 5th of 6. I can't see any adverse effects other than not having a lot of money.

I'm sure I read its a polyamorous situation that NC is in and all the women are aware and accepting of each other.Weird like a cult imo

Bloody hell 😂
Twins Moroccan Scott and Monroe Cannon
Golden "Sagon" Cannon
Powerful Queen Cannon
Rise Messiah Cannon
Zion Mixolydian Cannon
Zillion Heir Cannon
Zen S Cannon
Legendary Love Cannon
Onyx Ice Cole Cannon

Sorry, I read it wrong!
I agree, it is gross. Those poor kids

Pretty shit tbh. Youngest of 5 with a gap. I was a mistake, think everyone resented me. Took me quite awhile to realise that though. Loved my Mum, she had her faults but loved me. Couldn't care less about the rest of them. Every single one Dad/siblings either used me, invalidated me, insulted me or excluded me. Fuck em.

Lol yeah thought you had misread it…

And yeah I doubt he makes time to spend with each of those children… There’s men out there like this who don’t have fame and money too. An old work colleague of mine was trying for a baby with this guy she had known for all of about 5 minutes, he already had multiple children each with a different woman. God knows what she was thinking getting involved with him let alone trying to conceive another baby with him? 🤔