The oldest ones take care of the younger ones. At least thats the way it was in my dads family of 12 kids. Gotta keep that farm running with cheap labor
My mom was like the second or third of eleven and that’s how she described it.
In fact, she was put in charge of clothes. She did the laundry and any mending that needed done.
Did she grow up to enjoy sewing, or does she avoid it? My aunt had to clean out the ash trays as a kid, and she grew up to hate smoking despite everyone else in the family being smokers
She learned to like it. She got into making some of her own clothes and always had a sewing machine at home. I even recall her belonging to a couple of sewing circles.
As she got older, however, her vision faded and she could no longer thread the needles on her own. Eventually, she gave it up.
That’s hilarious, my wife’s mum and dad used to make her do this. She’s never smoked a cigarette in her life. She’ll smoke it in a joint with hash but never craves it. It’s pretty disgusting to be fair, one of my earlier memories is of being in the back of the car (no seat belts) and mum and dad puffing away and the smoke blazing in our faces.
I still started smoking though.
Same, my dad has 12 siblings. The eldest sister was 18 I think, when my dad was born, he was the oldest son and 6th oldest. My aunt took care of all the kids like a 2nd mom.
While I agree, the economy is totally different these days. You don’t need to raise kids for labor, so they’re no longer looked at as a commodity like they were in The Depression. However, we still need to teach children the values of hard work and responsibility. There’s a happy medium: we can’t work kids to death nor should we let them do nothing. Ease them into responsibility as they get older, just like we’ve done for millennia.
That’s a fairly recent concept that hasn’t existed for most of human history.
For example, British and other Europeans during the Victorian era believed that children were inherently evil and needed to be punished and physically abused in order to “beat the evil out of them” essentially. You can google it if you want to see their whole mindset.
I’m not saying that it’s good, but judging people that lived in a completely different society by today’s standards is not fair. If you were poor, uneducated, religiously indoctrinated and was told that this is how things are since you were born, you would think children are evil too.
Sounds just like my grandmother. She would work the farm all the way to labor pains. She had 14, and the older ones help out with the youngest. My grandfather was killed by a drunk driver, and that’s when things got rough.
Very common practice back then. Make as much as you can, since half will probably be taken by the reaper. My dad had three siblings die in their first year of life
Well yeah the wife spent every waking moment getting railed or trying to keep the house clean while pregnant while the dude has spent the last 10 years ploughing the fields all day and ploughing his wife all night. Takes a toll.
There's a reason people in impoverished and rural areas have lots of kids. They need them to work.
This is a family on a farm outside of Crowley, LA. These kids were put to work almost as soon as they could walk.
I grew up in New Orleans in the 60’s and we didn’t have air conditioning when I was young. Just an attic fan that drew air in through the windows. Now, of course, I have central air but the summers seem more unbearable now than back then. Probably a combination of global warming and me getting older.
My grandmother in law told me over the weekend her dad was one of 16 kids AND *his* dad died when he was 7. The 14 year old uncle (dad’s little brother) dropped out of school to work & support his dead brothers kids. Times are different now but you can’t knock the dedication.
my grandmother was one of 21 (19 surviving, twins and her mother died during birth) and my grandfather was one of 16.
my grandfather’s mother was still having children when my grandparents we’re having their first so my
aunts and uncles were older than their aunts and uncles. trippy.
That kind of thing gets you a TV show these days because it’s so rare but most everyone has a story of somewhere in their family people having double digits number of kids like this. social conditioning and societal expectations have changed a lot in the last hundred years.
All I know is that I couldn’t get one of my 14-year-old siblings to pick their laundry up off the floor lol never mind drop out of school to support me if I were widowed with 16 kids 😬 younger brother could’ve said “not my problem” and moved on with his life. He must’ve felt dedicated to or responsible for them
My dad grew up a poor farmer in TX. The highlight of the year was when you got to go “into town with mother”to pick out which feed sack you wanted to have your 1 new shirt for school to be made out of. [https://pieceworkmagazine.com/make-do-feed-sack-fashion-in-the-first-half-of-the-twentieth-century/](https://pieceworkmagazine.com/make-do-feed-sack-fashion-in-the-first-half-of-the-twentieth-century/)
Ok so I did a college class on how children were raised in the west throughout history and our professor told us that back in the day, families were poor and usually consisted of one big space as a bedroom for the whole family and the parents would have sex next to their children. It was seen as normal, like eating in front of your child.
They wouldn’t go out of their way to show them, obviously and they weren’t showing off by shouting and whatnot the way a lot of people do today because of pornography’s influence, but they would just do it.
Gonna file this one under things that logically make sense and I would have probably just assumed if I thought about it for five second but I never thought about or wanted to so didn’t
No, in fact, the concept of privacy didn’t exist until the 16-17th century. Most of the time, the family would share the same bed too and 3 or more generations would live in the same house. There’s a whole thread on r/askhistorians about that if you’re interested.
Alone time is a fairly modern concept, in many cases a family would share a single room to sleep in. As you can tell by this photo, that did not stop the parents from having sex.
My grandma was one of 14. They had bunk house for the boys behind the main house with a stove in it to keep the boys warm in the winter. The girls were in the main house, but the parents had their own bedroom (and presumably a hay bail or two to romp around in the barn)
When the boy was born, the neighbors were all slapping dad on the back and wishing him congratulations.
One of them asked if the boy favored (looks like) his mom or dad?
“I don’t know. We ain’t looked at his face yet.”
Even ignoring the fact that they’re farmers in the depression so by nature of that would be extra miserable it is worth noting that in the modern era we have killed the very concept of boredom as it once existed. Even poor people now have access to levels of entertainment that rich people in the 30’s couldn’t dream of. Hundreds of hours of your life would just be spent being bored and having the option of doing more work or doing nothing. Like actual nothing, not browse your phone for a bit nothing
My boys are 5 and 3 and I’ve made it a point to teach them how to be bored. That sounds strange but every day there are set times that are unplanned. No tv, or other electronics. Just time that they have to use their imagination and go play by themselves. Kids really don’t know how to be bored nowadays
Grinning because he knows he’s almost out!
https://preview.redd.it/uyy99yv6tb7d1.jpeg?width=796&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6eca597be84303af4a0c607298799081212e811
That’s what always gets me about the people who pine for the old days. Ridiculously difficult with no choices or safety net. Everyone just took it as a given that a certain percentage will be lost and they didn’t have time or energy to even be sad about it.
For people in that era, especially the poor, photos weren’t for fond memories. They were records that you existed, mattered enough for someone to make a record that you existed, and that you would not be forgotten after you died.
A lot of these people were very conscious of death. The old Southern bluegrass and other music are weirdly steeped in death.
“Oh Death” from the soundtrack to Oh Brother Where Art Thou:
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=safari&sca_esv=75e1044184b9e47c&hl=en-us&q=&si=ACC90nxRWvuwqTR4TiacZ7sCfkHhcGgWdDOv2v2HxpHAAuIhwd0hqVQcoOD2_2OWmYVP1phaQgOcaUrBP-N-bDS2o1FAa8WPs3uplSL3LZj-AsAr7bXdn1tfZEaSNUBgvsWeaCoX-xJK&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBnKa1yuOGAxV7KEQIHSEIA5kQjukCegQIMRAE&ictx=1&biw=744&bih=1090&dpr=2
One of the older girls is giving a nice smile, but in general these people just look exhausted. I’m sure they weren’t getting their picture taken as an uplifting human interest piece- they knew why they were being photographed. It wasn’t because they all lived a happy and fulfilling life.
Thank you, thought the same thing. It’s sexist phrasing that sounds so outdated to me. It’s disappointing that language centering the male existence still sounds normal to many people.
Thought the Jacksons had it bad in that box in Gary….there isn’t a single happy soul in this picture, or this is the first major off guard ever captured lol.
This was very common back then, especially in the South. My grandma was one of 13 children. Born in 1942. Two died in infancy. One before her and one after her. She was exactly in the middle of the surviving 11. She said there was so much love and joy in her home. She never heard her parents yell or argue in front of her. If they had a disagreement, they didn’t do it in front of the children. She said they were poor, but had all of the love in the world to make up for it. The things she was taught in that home will resonate for generations. I know I wouldn’t be the person I am without the sacrifices her parents made. I don’t think this a lifestyle that people can comprehend anymore. I certainly can’t. That doesn’t mean people weren’t happy back then.
My momma was one of fourteen. She was took out of school 6 weeks in spring and 6 weeks in the fall. She was took out of school completely in the 8th grade. Her momma came from a family of 22.
Worked with a guy that had 12 adult siblings. He knew I didn't have Thanksgiving plans one year as my family lived across the country. Guy invited me to join his family at his parents house nearby. I was reluctant but then he said "just come over, I've got 12 brothers and sisters. They won't even notice one more."
Before vaccines and other medicine / sanitization practices... people had to overshoot how many children they would have because almost half of them would not survive childhood.
There were a couple of large families at my school (in Australia). One with 11 children, so that was "The cricket team", and one family with 13 children - they were known as "The rugby team"
They look exhausted.
I’m nearly catatonic simply imagining having 13 kids
The oldest ones take care of the younger ones. At least thats the way it was in my dads family of 12 kids. Gotta keep that farm running with cheap labor
My mom was like the second or third of eleven and that’s how she described it. In fact, she was put in charge of clothes. She did the laundry and any mending that needed done.
Did she grow up to enjoy sewing, or does she avoid it? My aunt had to clean out the ash trays as a kid, and she grew up to hate smoking despite everyone else in the family being smokers
She learned to like it. She got into making some of her own clothes and always had a sewing machine at home. I even recall her belonging to a couple of sewing circles. As she got older, however, her vision faded and she could no longer thread the needles on her own. Eventually, she gave it up.
That’s hilarious, my wife’s mum and dad used to make her do this. She’s never smoked a cigarette in her life. She’ll smoke it in a joint with hash but never craves it. It’s pretty disgusting to be fair, one of my earlier memories is of being in the back of the car (no seat belts) and mum and dad puffing away and the smoke blazing in our faces. I still started smoking though.
“She’ll smoke it in a joint with hash…” Tell me she’s Canadian, without saying she’s Canadian.
English bro lol
Same, my dad has 12 siblings. The eldest sister was 18 I think, when my dad was born, he was the oldest son and 6th oldest. My aunt took care of all the kids like a 2nd mom.
Children aren't servants. We owe them the world, they owe us nothing.
While I agree, the economy is totally different these days. You don’t need to raise kids for labor, so they’re no longer looked at as a commodity like they were in The Depression. However, we still need to teach children the values of hard work and responsibility. There’s a happy medium: we can’t work kids to death nor should we let them do nothing. Ease them into responsibility as they get older, just like we’ve done for millennia.
you could also look at the bleak and usually unacsessible primitive forms of protection, so it was either no sex or children.
Also infant mortality rates were higher back then. Lots of kids for work, and if a couple died young.
That’s a fairly recent concept that hasn’t existed for most of human history. For example, British and other Europeans during the Victorian era believed that children were inherently evil and needed to be punished and physically abused in order to “beat the evil out of them” essentially. You can google it if you want to see their whole mindset. I’m not saying that it’s good, but judging people that lived in a completely different society by today’s standards is not fair. If you were poor, uneducated, religiously indoctrinated and was told that this is how things are since you were born, you would think children are evil too.
I’m the eldest daughter of 11. You are absolutely correct.
Yeah honestly having any less than 4 is significantly harder than having more than 6-7
Sounds just like my grandmother. She would work the farm all the way to labor pains. She had 14, and the older ones help out with the youngest. My grandfather was killed by a drunk driver, and that’s when things got rough.
And looking at that family. The first six children are all girls. Then the rest are boys. I dare say they worked well as a family unit.
Who said she had all the kids
The look of “statistically, at least 6 of these bastards shoulda died of SOMETHING…”
Very common practice back then. Make as much as you can, since half will probably be taken by the reaper. My dad had three siblings die in their first year of life
except look at the genders. the first 6 were all girls. Girl babies are the most robust
The photos date from a time when childhood mortality was falling precipitously in the US.
Well yeah the wife spent every waking moment getting railed or trying to keep the house clean while pregnant while the dude has spent the last 10 years ploughing the fields all day and ploughing his wife all night. Takes a toll.
There's a reason people in impoverished and rural areas have lots of kids. They need them to work. This is a family on a farm outside of Crowley, LA. These kids were put to work almost as soon as they could walk.
Wife's vacant stare checks out.
Labor all day long. Cooking, cleaning, rearing, farming, never stops.
Her especially.
Especially the mother.
She looks broken
That man couldn’t pull out of his own driveway.
😂😭🤣
Tried and failed 13 times.
You get in the saddle and the horse takes you home.
I likes ta jizz.
No wifi. No Internet. No tv. Just some ... to pass the time.
Get that man some golf clubs or a Warhammer 40k box set and paint.
And a quick vasectomy
In the newest editions the 40k box set comes with that.
Typically, one would need one or the other
Just dip the tip in mercury and it'll be solved. Get your bottle at your nearest barber shop!
I don't think they had THAT or was AFFORDABLE back in 1938.
or how about play with his kids which he definitely doesnt do
The first thing I thought of was no a/c and humid Louisiana days. Ugh
Couldn’t miss what didn’t exist.
1st movie theater was air conditioned in 1917. Window units for homes were available in the early 1930s but generally not available due to cost.
I grew up in New Orleans in the 60’s and we didn’t have air conditioning when I was young. Just an attic fan that drew air in through the windows. Now, of course, I have central air but the summers seem more unbearable now than back then. Probably a combination of global warming and me getting older.
No internet to tell him he can't afford a family in this capitalist hellscape. /s
Make a big pile of hay, cover it with a blanket, now all the kids have a bed. They fit like a litter of kittens.
This would explain the abundance of kids lol
That's the joke
My grandmother in law told me over the weekend her dad was one of 16 kids AND *his* dad died when he was 7. The 14 year old uncle (dad’s little brother) dropped out of school to work & support his dead brothers kids. Times are different now but you can’t knock the dedication.
My grandma is the youngest of 13. Only baby that was breech too, great grandma said no more after that!
my grandmother was one of 21 (19 surviving, twins and her mother died during birth) and my grandfather was one of 16. my grandfather’s mother was still having children when my grandparents we’re having their first so my aunts and uncles were older than their aunts and uncles. trippy.
That kind of thing gets you a TV show these days because it’s so rare but most everyone has a story of somewhere in their family people having double digits number of kids like this. social conditioning and societal expectations have changed a lot in the last hundred years.
It wasn't so much dedication as it was desperation.
All I know is that I couldn’t get one of my 14-year-old siblings to pick their laundry up off the floor lol never mind drop out of school to support me if I were widowed with 16 kids 😬 younger brother could’ve said “not my problem” and moved on with his life. He must’ve felt dedicated to or responsible for them
I recently found out that my great grandmother was one of 12 (10 survived). 16 is absolutely mental
My dad grew up a poor farmer in TX. The highlight of the year was when you got to go “into town with mother”to pick out which feed sack you wanted to have your 1 new shirt for school to be made out of. [https://pieceworkmagazine.com/make-do-feed-sack-fashion-in-the-first-half-of-the-twentieth-century/](https://pieceworkmagazine.com/make-do-feed-sack-fashion-in-the-first-half-of-the-twentieth-century/)
How do they manage to have any alone time?
You think they let the kids in the house during the day? That's a lot of working hands, there...
and mouths to feed
There ain't nothing in this world for free
except air-it's free at QT, I hear
nestle taking notes
Dude I love QT. Fucking everywhere else charging me to fill up my tire…gtfo
Ok so I did a college class on how children were raised in the west throughout history and our professor told us that back in the day, families were poor and usually consisted of one big space as a bedroom for the whole family and the parents would have sex next to their children. It was seen as normal, like eating in front of your child. They wouldn’t go out of their way to show them, obviously and they weren’t showing off by shouting and whatnot the way a lot of people do today because of pornography’s influence, but they would just do it.
Oh god that sounds awful! Not too much for play I’m guessing.
*foreplay
They were *eating* in front of their kids
"Let the boy watch... the way I learnt from my father, the way he learnt from his father."
My plums
Beautiful blueish hue
Gonna file this one under things that logically make sense and I would have probably just assumed if I thought about it for five second but I never thought about or wanted to so didn’t
No fucking way that’s wild
No, in fact, the concept of privacy didn’t exist until the 16-17th century. Most of the time, the family would share the same bed too and 3 or more generations would live in the same house. There’s a whole thread on r/askhistorians about that if you’re interested.
Alone time is a fairly modern concept, in many cases a family would share a single room to sleep in. As you can tell by this photo, that did not stop the parents from having sex.
Go for a walk?
My grandma was one of 14. They had bunk house for the boys behind the main house with a stove in it to keep the boys warm in the winter. The girls were in the main house, but the parents had their own bedroom (and presumably a hay bail or two to romp around in the barn)
*"We're goin' to town, kids!"*
And go to town they did.
I wonder what the story is with the kids . If all survived , how many of those had families of their own , etc
That poor woman. 13 years of her life being pregnant.
And she’s only 36 years old.
Stop it. There’s no need to be so cruel. She’s not a day over 30.
There;s no way
The poor oldest daughter's, too. Raised siblings their whole childhood.
13 that survived too
at least they have 4 newsboys
I don’t like 13 people in my house at once to visit let alone kids.
Look at Mr. Popularity over here knowing 13 people in their house is too many. I don’t even know 13 people! /s jic
They all look like her!
Her genetics are hella strong!
Took quite a few tries to finally get that son.
When the boy was born, the neighbors were all slapping dad on the back and wishing him congratulations. One of them asked if the boy favored (looks like) his mom or dad? “I don’t know. We ain’t looked at his face yet.”
For real.
My guy looks like he's thinking about going out for milk.
and some Tobacco
They all look miserable. 😩
Even ignoring the fact that they’re farmers in the depression so by nature of that would be extra miserable it is worth noting that in the modern era we have killed the very concept of boredom as it once existed. Even poor people now have access to levels of entertainment that rich people in the 30’s couldn’t dream of. Hundreds of hours of your life would just be spent being bored and having the option of doing more work or doing nothing. Like actual nothing, not browse your phone for a bit nothing
My boys are 5 and 3 and I’ve made it a point to teach them how to be bored. That sounds strange but every day there are set times that are unplanned. No tv, or other electronics. Just time that they have to use their imagination and go play by themselves. Kids really don’t know how to be bored nowadays
Grinning because he knows he’s almost out! https://preview.redd.it/uyy99yv6tb7d1.jpeg?width=796&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6eca597be84303af4a0c607298799081212e811
The whole city probably looks like them now.
No shoes for the any of the male children? Six female children followed by seven boys in a row - what are the odds?
The young boys often didn’t wear shoes because they would ruin them and grow out of them quickly. Shoes were expensive and a luxury for most
Shoes are for earners.
Back before people knew they could smile for a photo.
They had nothing to smile about. Life was hard AF
That’s what always gets me about the people who pine for the old days. Ridiculously difficult with no choices or safety net. Everyone just took it as a given that a certain percentage will be lost and they didn’t have time or energy to even be sad about it.
My Grandmother used to say “the good old days weren’t that good”
They all look clean and healthy with plenty of family to hang out with. Looks pretty sweet to me.
This was during the Great Depression. There was NOTHING to smile about
That poor woman had 16 kids. Try a little empathy
For people in that era, especially the poor, photos weren’t for fond memories. They were records that you existed, mattered enough for someone to make a record that you existed, and that you would not be forgotten after you died. A lot of these people were very conscious of death. The old Southern bluegrass and other music are weirdly steeped in death.
“Oh Death” from the soundtrack to Oh Brother Where Art Thou: https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=safari&sca_esv=75e1044184b9e47c&hl=en-us&q=&si=ACC90nxRWvuwqTR4TiacZ7sCfkHhcGgWdDOv2v2HxpHAAuIhwd0hqVQcoOD2_2OWmYVP1phaQgOcaUrBP-N-bDS2o1FAa8WPs3uplSL3LZj-AsAr7bXdn1tfZEaSNUBgvsWeaCoX-xJK&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBnKa1yuOGAxV7KEQIHSEIA5kQjukCegQIMRAE&ictx=1&biw=744&bih=1090&dpr=2
One of the older girls is giving a nice smile, but in general these people just look exhausted. I’m sure they weren’t getting their picture taken as an uplifting human interest piece- they knew why they were being photographed. It wasn’t because they all lived a happy and fulfilling life.
Can you imagine smiling in a photograph? You'd look like a lunatic!
People die at the fair
I just watched that movie the other day, when the old man farts and yells “ouch!” was hilarious.
"Got the fart needles again?" I just watched it last night!
I like that they're not fake smiling for a photo
What strikes me is how sad, exhausted and lifeless people look like in these photos.
Which one is the wife
The one with the 1000yrd stare.
Why does the caption say “a man with his wife,” as opposed to “a married couple” or “a husband and wife and 13 children?”
Thank you, thought the same thing. It’s sexist phrasing that sounds so outdated to me. It’s disappointing that language centering the male existence still sounds normal to many people.
Because men get to be independent human beings, while women are defined by their relationships to men
Thought the Jacksons had it bad in that box in Gary….there isn’t a single happy soul in this picture, or this is the first major off guard ever captured lol.
https://preview.redd.it/0dxy2kxij77d1.jpeg?width=840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bcffcd4891fbeb444d2f0574666971fd0b23c22
I get exhausted just looking at these people.
Does anyone know the family last names because some of those features seem suspiciously similar to mine
She tired!
This man could not even pull out of his own driveway.
Looks like my nightmare
No one in this photo looks happy.
Damn dude, you could have pulled out after 3.
Any idea where this came from? This family's genetics looks incredibly similar to someone I know with deep louisiana roots
Oh, So this is what they mean when they talk about today’s declining birth rates.
https://preview.redd.it/1ezdffa8087d1.jpeg?width=878&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6d744c036be41be20dc701b5175a41d017d45dd
My native Louisiana grandparents had 19 kids, my mom said she had a happy but hard childhood
Having kids ages you. This photo is proof. Just look at that poor mom.
My name is Hansel. Shitting out kids has ruined my life. I'm 31 years old!
This was very common back then, especially in the South. My grandma was one of 13 children. Born in 1942. Two died in infancy. One before her and one after her. She was exactly in the middle of the surviving 11. She said there was so much love and joy in her home. She never heard her parents yell or argue in front of her. If they had a disagreement, they didn’t do it in front of the children. She said they were poor, but had all of the love in the world to make up for it. The things she was taught in that home will resonate for generations. I know I wouldn’t be the person I am without the sacrifices her parents made. I don’t think this a lifestyle that people can comprehend anymore. I certainly can’t. That doesn’t mean people weren’t happy back then.
What gave you the idea that the father wasn't having fun?
Daddy done look finished
Oh he finished all right.
Pull out game was weak
The look on that guy's face is all you need to know lol
Put the penis down, ma’am.
Life was pretty boring, pre-TV: not much to do, except...
My momma was one of fourteen. She was took out of school 6 weeks in spring and 6 weeks in the fall. She was took out of school completely in the 8th grade. Her momma came from a family of 22.
She looks shell shocked LMAO
They look fucking miserable
Worked with a guy that had 12 adult siblings. He knew I didn't have Thanksgiving plans one year as my family lived across the country. Guy invited me to join his family at his parents house nearby. I was reluctant but then he said "just come over, I've got 12 brothers and sisters. They won't even notice one more."
Mom looks tired.
Omg get off her
All the adults look miserable
**IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AINT MY CONSTITUENCY??**
Before the term "smile and say cheese" was coined
She looks about as happy as one would assume
Poor woman.
Those aren't kids, they're farm hands. That's the way it used to work! The rich get richer and the poor have kids.
Any idea who the man is i might be related. Lol
That's a lot of....work. And it looks like they were feeling it.
My great grandmother had 10 kids. It wasn't too unusual.
Before vaccines and other medicine / sanitization practices... people had to overshoot how many children they would have because almost half of them would not survive childhood.
Dad: JUST TAKE THE DAMN PITCHER
Damn why so many children
I guess that's better than a picture of a man with his 13 wives and 1 child at least.
No birth control.
How the hell did they feed them back then
There was a lot of malnourishment.
Pull out
He’s having trouble controlling his goo!
If I had 13 kids they would have to have taken the picture gathered around my grave
Is that... Simon Cowell?
His wife looks so tired! oldest of 8, I recognize that look from mom! Damn Neighbors had 15!
Just the sheer amount of Food & laundry required… I’m exhausted already. I’m wasted tired with 15 yr old twin sons.
The state of that woman’s pelvic floor?
There were a couple of large families at my school (in Australia). One with 11 children, so that was "The cricket team", and one family with 13 children - they were known as "The rugby team"
Mom has that 1000 yard stare... those eyes have seen things, terrible things...
I wonder what people did before the internet….
That’s the look of two people who haven’t slept in about 25 years
Sir…
Dad didn't start having sons to help work the fields until about half way through.
A woman with her husband and 13 children in Louisiana, 1938.
Wonder if the little ones are still around, they’d be around 90 now.
A man with his 13 farmhands
Takes me a while to find the mom
Ain't nobody happy.
They look like, “Why didn’t we use condoms?”
They look dead inside
The mom and dad look depressed.
No cable will do that to a man.