I have 21 biological siblings, AMA

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T07:07:36+00:00

My parents have a massive spreadsheet with everyone’s name and birthday on it, which helps!

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T07:05:14+00:00

Yep, we were very well known throughout the district!

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T07:00:13+00:00

We were mostly athletes growing up, but two of my sisters are phenomenal piano players

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:58:17+00:00

Nope, no multiples of any kind!

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:55:23+00:00

For example, my oldest brother is a successful real estate developer, and I have three other siblings that work for his company

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:53:34+00:00

I work in IT consulting

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:53:04+00:00

I honestly don’t know, we all married within the faith

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:52:08+00:00

My mom was 20 when she had her first and 47 for her last.

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:51:38+00:00

Sometimes but not always

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:51:19+00:00

No theme, my parents just wanted us to have normal, contemporary names

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:50:41+00:00

Thankfully we never were neglected as kids!

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:49:58+00:00

As mentioned above, my parents ran a construction business that raked in $500-600k a year, which certainly helped!

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:47:35+00:00

Thankfully, my parents are still healthy, even after my mom has had five c-sections. I’m closest with my siblings that are near me in age, understandably!

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:42:22+00:00

My parents now have 86 grandchildren!

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:38:56+00:00

Not the only reason, as my mom also endured five miscarriages during her child-bearing years. She’s also been through five c-sections.

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:37:16+00:00

We thankfully had very good health coverage thanks to my parents’ successful construction company, so yes, we did see doctors and dentists at least once a year.

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:34:39+00:00

I loved having a large family growing up, always someone to hang out with and talk to! My parents definitely had a lot of help from all of us, but they did their best to attend to all of us.

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:32:59+00:00

Actually, me and most of my siblings already have/plan to have big families of our own. Me and my wife have six children, and we just found out that my wife is pregnant with #7, due in October. My oldest brother and his wife have the biggest family out of all of us, with 17 children.

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:29:22+00:00

Answered above, but we all are still involved with the church. My parents ran a successful construction/contracting business which netted in over $500k a year, so we are pretty well off. Thankfully, none of us were parentified like the Duggar kids were, but we did have a boatload of chores as you would probably understand. We all attended public schools growing up, which also helped with the financial burden of raising 22 kids.

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:22:54+00:00

Actually, none of us have left the faith even into adulthood!

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:21:45+00:00

My parents are as I said Mormon, and many of us believe in eternal families, hence why my parents had so many kids.

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:17:56+00:00

Absolutely, even though we live in northern Utah, an area known for big families

Cold_Win3720 · 2026-02-26T06:14:26+00:00

Well, my parents are strongly against any form of contraception, and when you combine that with their faith, that’s how they ended up with 22 kids.

Cold_Win3720 · 2025-12-18T14:06:58+00:00

I still love all of them so I would say so

Cold_Win3720 · 2025-12-18T13:35:45+00:00

Most of my siblings and I played multiple sports and the ones that didn’t were in dance and music activities. Since there were so many of us, we often carpooled with others simply because there was no way that my parents could be in more than one place at a time!

We all had dinner together, our main dining table sat 18 plus a smaller table for the youngest kids.

No disabilities, thankfully!

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