I had a teammate in college that was one of 24. He was #23. There were 2 sets of twins and, if I recall correctly, two siblings in their teens died in a boating accident before he was born. Here's the kicker...ONE mom and five dads.
It is not terribly uncommon in African for men to have children with many women. I saw a news story awhile back where one man had over 100 children, and all his different women and children collectively mourned him when he died and said he was a truly great man. That's not the "norm," but one man having multiple women isn't that uncommon. Actually pretty common especially for people of African descent to have multiple baby mamas here in the US too. Not many men are having more than about 5 kids in the developed world these days though.
Those people tend to do the same thing on US, and rarely get married. Babymommas everywhere.
About the same asmost "blended families" on council estates in the UK then.
Difference is, their family probably worked.
Wheras in the UK they're all on PIP due to mum having fake fybromyalgia and depression (caused by inactivity and bad diet) and the Dad has just works cash in hand and signs on.
I had several African roommates in college, all from different countries, learned a lot about collective African culture speaking with them. Even ones from very well educated and wealthy backgrounds definitely had way different view on family structure and marriage compared to us in the west. Naturally they knew this and definitely didn't speak on opinions at a small liberal arts college with a 3:1 ratio women to men.
Anyways; one roommate from Cameroon came from a very wealthy family. Parents both PhD prepared; father high up in economics for the government, Mother a professor. They lived outside the capital in a "compound" with the whole family, couple servants and security team. Father sent 5 of 6 kids to US or UK for education and one played pro soccer. His fathers side descended from the chief of their tribe (roommates grandfather) who had 100 plus children and who knows how many grandchildren. Few "funny" notes from talking with him; I asked about his multiple names and where they came from. A child would inherent both his fathers first and last name then a tribal name. I asked what he got from his mother; his response was just laughter (not joking) 'why would you get something from a women'. He was a bio-chem undergrad student going on to be a doctor but without any hesitation and complete straight faced, told me, they believe the grandfather had the ability to turn into a lion once a year and said if I ever came with him to Africa he could show me stuff that I would never see anywhere else. Maybe he just wanted to entertain the white boy but his acting sure fooled me.
I had several African roommates in college, all from different countries, learned a lot about collective African culture speaking with them. Even ones from very well educated and wealthy backgrounds definitely had way different view on family structure and marriage compared to us in the west. Naturally they knew this and definitely didn't speak on opinions at a small liberal arts college with a 3:1 ratio women to men.
Anyways; one roommate from Cameroon came from a very wealthy family. Parents both PhD prepared; father high up in economics for the government, Mother a professor. They lived outside the capital in a "compound" with the whole family, couple servants and security team. Father sent 5 of 6 kids to US or UK for education and one played pro soccer. His fathers side descended from the chief of their tribe (roommates grandfather) who had 100 plus children and who knows how many grandchildren. Few "funny" notes from talking with him; I asked about his multiple names and where they came from. A child would inherent both his fathers first and last name then a tribal name. I asked what he got from his mother; his response was just laughter (not joking) 'why would you get something from a women'. He was a bio-chem undergrad student going on to be a doctor but without any hesitation and complete straight faced, told me, they believe the grandfather had the ability to turn into a lion once a year and said if I ever came with him to Africa he could show me stuff that I would never see anywhere else. Maybe he just wanted to entertain the white boy but his acting sure fooled me.
LOL I had a teammate from Cameroon and his story was pretty similar, close enough that it could almost be the same guy. His father had a ridiculous number of kids and was descended from a tribal leader.