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* [[Truth in Television]]: [[Stephen Colbert]] is the youngest of eleven children and can recite them all in a [[Motor Mouth]]: ''Jimmy-Eddie-Mary-Billy-Margo-Tommy-Jay-Lulu-Paul-Peter-Stephen''. Sadly, Paul and Peter (along with his father) died in a plane crash when Stephen was 11. |
* [[Truth in Television]]: [[Stephen Colbert]] is the youngest of eleven children and can recite them all in a [[Motor Mouth]]: ''Jimmy-Eddie-Mary-Billy-Margo-Tommy-Jay-Lulu-Paul-Peter-Stephen''. Sadly, Paul and Peter (along with his father) died in a plane crash when Stephen was 11. |
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** Of course, this applies to a greater or lesser extent to many Catholics of Colbert's generation. In some places and contexts, this is still the case, though not to the extent it would have been a few generations earlier. Unlike the Protestant Quiverfull movement, however, most aren't deliberately having massive amounts of children - just taking the injunctions against artificial birth control and abortion seriously. |
** Of course, this applies to a greater or lesser extent to many Catholics of Colbert's generation. In some places and contexts, this is still the case, though not to the extent it would have been a few generations earlier. Unlike the Protestant Quiverfull movement, however, most aren't deliberately having massive amounts of children - just taking the injunctions against artificial birth control and abortion seriously. |
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* The Kennedys (also a Catholic family). Joseph P. Kennedy had nine children, including [[John F Kennedy|John]] and Robert, who had eleven. |
* The Kennedys (also a Catholic family). Joseph P. Kennedy had nine children, including [[John F. Kennedy|John]] and Robert, who had eleven. |
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* The "Octomom." Octuplets... in addition to the six she already had. In vitro was involved, of course. |
* The "Octomom." Octuplets... in addition to the six she already had. In vitro was involved, of course. |
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* There's a U.S. religious movement known as Quiverfull, where families try to have as many children as they possibly can in order to develop "an army for Christ". |
* There's a U.S. religious movement known as Quiverfull, where families try to have as many children as they possibly can in order to develop "an army for Christ". |
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