Highest number children you know someone to have in real life?

[Newsenmum]

People talk about these crazy massive families that exist on news but what is the largest family you know? Im from quite a middle class area down south. Most families I know have one or two kids, sometimes three. I have one friend pregnant with her fourth and know one school mum with five! Very unusual though.

I know two families with six children, one from the USA and one from the UK. I have one kid and I'm done. 😅

one of the mums at the school I work at has 9

Most people I know have 2, the odd family has 3, oh and one who went for number 4 and fell with twins so ended up with 5!

Highest number I know of is a distant family member who had 7, and then sadly killed herself after suffering post natal psychosis after number 7

14 and the person I knew was the youngest and a twin!

Daughter of a friend has 10

Sister in law - 4

My mum is one of 11 children and my dad is one of 6. I have a LOT of cousins! 😂
Im 39 and one of 3 children. I have just the 1 myself

I have a friend who has seven children. Oldest is 17.

I used to work with a man who had 10. It absolutely blew my mind - unless he was working in an extremely stressful and unglamorous job for fun they weren't mega well off, either.

My primary school best friend was the youngest of 8. Very middle class family - dad a senior civil servant, mum a nurse. The mum just loved babies, and when she couldn’t have any more of her own she continued to foster. Always a line full of nappies!

A current colleague of mine has 7.

I used to work with families and young children, some of them had lots of children, one dad had 13 maybe 14 children to different women. It wasn't unusual to have 6 children in one family though.

South East and know a family of 7. Very unusual though. I have 2 myself with a 9 year gap. I really didn’t want to leave my only DD without a sibling. I know loads with only 1 child and they are done so now I think what was I worried about

I know one with five(the last pregnancy was unplanned and twins!) and a couple with six

I have six.

5 is the biggest - I knew 2 families with 5. One the DC are all grown up now and the other they will be teenagers, we lost touch after I moved away. Both involve blended families, one adoption.

4 are the biggest families I know where they all have the same parents. I think I know 4 families with 4 children?

TBH I am one of four but I have never lived with 2 of my half-siblings so it doesn't really count from that angle. DH also one of four but his siblings are much older.

A family member has 11 children. She's in her 40s. Her eldest is mid-twenties and her youngest is roughly one year old.

Came here to say exactly this, I know 2 women with 10 and 7.

I know a 4. Although my son is friends with a local lad who I think has 5 siblings. Im pretty sure his parents have bern married for forever, so I dont think they are steps, but cant be sure.

So I definitely know a 4 and may know a 6.

dead or alive? My grandfather had 11 kids with two wives (first one died of TB after child nr 6). He really should have stopped earlier - his youngest was born when he was sixty, with a club foot, and developed a roaring psychosis in adolescence.

I recently met a child (about 10) who was one of the youngest of 12 children.

I have met an adult (would now be in her 60s) who was one of 14 children.

I'm 68 so know loads of peers who grew up in large families.. l am one of five sisters.. but in my school years loads came from families of 8/9/10 my friend is one of 13 but she's a Mormon and has 6 kids of her own.

My boss just had her 5th as well ..x

My husband is 1 of 8 🤷

Right now the biggest family I know is mine, I have 5. When I knew a lot more mums I had 2 friends each with 6 and a classmate of my eldest son was one of 13!

I know 1 family with 7, 2 families with 6 and 2 with 5. One of the 5 kid families has all boys.

I can just about manage two DC.