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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.

** 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.

* The "Octomom." Octuplets... in addition to the six she already had. In vitro was involved, of course.

* 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".