Family affair: fifty children and still feeling strong

Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:45 UTC

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A 90-year-old retired peasant has fathered children with two wives, sister-in-law and mother-in-law in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Norte state, the press reported on Sunday. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
This man has certainly done his bit for the population expansion of Brasil.

50+ new humans from one man, many of which will have multiplied geometrically (?) their numbers in the intervening years.

If he had been pocio-politically inclined he could have added 50+ families to the Bolsa Familia. I guess, as it is, he merely added half a dozen or so, but some 'big earners' of tax-payers' social provision.

And I wonder if, after all these years, all the families are still on the Balsa. Chances are, over the generations since he started his breeding campaign, there are dozens of families in his extended family supported in large measure by the state.
Or is there a back-story, that he worked his whole life to ensure each and every one of his children had the quality education necessary to pull them out of the poverty that he himself experienced throughout his long lifetime.
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