Dugger’s 19th Child Makes Us Wonder: Do Latinos Still Have Big Families?
1 September 2009, 4:22 PM. By Cindy Casares
The recent news that the Quiverfull Duggars of Tontitown, Arkansas are expecting their 19th baby harkens back to our parents’ and grandparents’ day when everybody had at least ten kids. The other day, we had the opportunity to talk to a white dude who hates Hispanics and he, too, told us he believes Hispanics have more kids than your average white band. We’re willing to guess that’s not too true anymore, but we thought we’d turn it over to you Latinoids. Do you come from a big family? And are you having one yourself?
Surprise! Duggar Family Expecting 19th Child [ABC News]
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Where does Mr. Duggar get the desire to still hit that?
Plus, are their heads getting progressively more block shaped?
My dad has 8 brothers (some are step) and my mom has 3 sisters and 1 brother. I on the other hand only have 1 brother; I guess that means I’ll have 0 kids haha.
Things have changed within the Latino community; I think it’s because “we” came from other countries. Once our parents got here they knew they couldn’t afford 20000 kids.
Both my parents resent my abuelitos for having so many kids (11 on my dads side and 10 on my moms) bc they ended up raising each other and supporting my abuelitos once they go old enough to work (my dad at 14) bu that was the way of life on el rancho
I’m the youngest of 5.
my mom has 3 full siblings, and 3 half… and there is rumored to be one other half someone out there (told you my grama is scandalous)
my mom’s brother has 11 kids and her sister has 9… and since most of them live in Mexico, I dont remember most of their names.
my dad has 6 siblings… and actually two of my tias are not married and if I remember correctly, my dad is the one with the most kids. They all too live in Mexico, so I can remember.
My family has 5 kids and were are the smallest family in our tree. My aunts and uncles all have between 6 and 14 kids. I have over 80 first cousins on my dad’s side alone! However, those 80 first cousins have no more than 4 or 5 kids of their own.
Also: Roncha, I totally want to hang out with that abuelita of yours!
The only Latinos with big families that I ever see is those alarmingly young girls in the subway pushing giant strollers and being trailed by a small army of mini-me’s. I don’t think that big families are de rigueur with “Hispanics” anymore. We have birth control now. My mom had 4 siblings, my dad one full sister and one half sister. None of my uncles, aunts and cousins have more than 3 kids, and a surprisingly large number of them don’t have any kids at all. I only have one brother and lived in a neighborhood where every family had only 2-3 kids, max. And that was in the actual third world, not here. Now, the area was decidedly middle class and educated, but still. Having tons of kids is extremely expensive and not too difficult to avoid nowadays.
This reminds me of an article that I read in the August 24 edition of The New Yorker where the White South African founder of the Tesla brand of electric cars says that he exhorts his ostensibly intelligent employees to have “at least 2 kids per woman” in order to keep the world populated with people of superior IQ or something. I get what he’s saying, but that was just creepy and Duggar-like in its own way. Plus, all his employees are male, apparently. Sigh.
Hold on, they live in Tontitown? Like Tontito-town? LMAO!!!!!!!
I don’t know how I would count: I have a total of 6 half-siblings from my parents’ previous marriages (3 each), but I’m the only child of both my parents. Meanwhile, my father and mother came from homes of 5 and 8 children, respectively.