A large family in our country is a family in which there are three or more children. According to statistics, today only 2.6% of Russian families have many children, and in the world there are not so many couples giving birth to more than 2-3 babies.
But the largest family in history consisted of 69 children. This is exactly how much the wife of the peasant Fedor Vasilyev, who lived in the Russian city of Shuya in the 18th century, gave birth to.
Of course, many more children in the same family are born in countries where polygamy is allowed. But our selection today only features traditional monogamous couples.
Families from Russia, Ukraine and the USA in Top 5 most large families of our time.
5. Hope and Ivan Osyaki
In 2009, the nineteenth child was born in the Osyakov family. In the same year, the family was invited to the Kremlin to present the Order of Parental Glory. And today Ivan and Nadezhda have five grandchildren.
Osyaks live in Rostov-on-Don, both spouses come from Orthodox families with many children.
4. Henry Wilson and Anna Josephine Crocker
This American couple has 19 children. The couple decided to become parents with many children at the beginning of their life together, but, of course, they could not imagine what outstanding results would be achieved in the end, planning to have three kids.
And now parents are raising 10 girls and 9 boys.
3. Alexander and Elena Shishkin
The Shishkin family from the Voronezh region has 20 natural children - 11 daughters and 9 sons. The parents managed to set such a record, despite the fact that in her youth, doctors predicted Elena problems with childbirth due to a negative Rh factor.
The eldest son will turn 37 this year, the youngest daughter - 12 years old.
The Shishkins already have 23 grandchildren and a spacious country house, which was built by the whole family.
2. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar
The largest family in the United States has 19 children. It is noteworthy that all children have names starting with the letter J. The Duggars are supporters of home education, they do not use the services of kindergartens and live outside the city.
On one of the American TV channels the family was devoted to the series of programs "19 Kids and Counting".
1. Leonora and Janos Nameni
The Ukrainian spouses Nameni themselves are from large families - Janos has 16 brothers and sisters, and his wife Leonora has 14. In 2013, Leonora gave birth to her twenty-first child and now her parents have 10 girls and 11 boys.
The Nameni family lives in a small two-story house on the outskirts of a village in the Chernivtsi region.
Older children have already managed to give their parents eight grandchildren.