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I think big families are great. I met one blended family where the father had 10 kids before his wife died of cancer and he married a woman with 10 of her own. RATs hate these people, I think, because they hate, in general, the concepts of responsibility, faithfulness and dedication to family.

I used to be a leader in the Jr High ministry at my old church. There were a few kids on our team from one family. Years later, I ran into one of the kids, who then was an adult in their later 20's. We started calling and e-mailing once in awhile, and I visited them once out in Colorado. There were 5 of these kids from 1 family, adopted into this family. The mom and dad wanted to keep all the kids together so they adopted all 5.

The mom and dad had some of their own biological kids. The dad some (maybe 2 or 3) from his first marriage (his first wife had died). And then the mom and dad had some together (again 2 or 3, I think). Then they started adopting kids into their family, with 4-6 already in the family.

Last time I knew the mom and dad were in the process of adopting 2 more kids.

Mom and dad went to the rest of the family to consult with them about whether to do this or not. Why? Because the boy they were going to adopt was about 8-10 years old, and the little girl was about 6, and the dad was 66 at the time, and the mom 50. So when the little girl would be graduating high school, the dad would be 78.

All the kids enthusiasticly agreed that mom and dad should do this. And they also agreed to help in the raising of these 2 new family members.

With the addition of these two new family members, between biological and chosen (adopted) kids, there were 26 loving siblings. And when I say loving, there was no distinction between biological kids and chosen kids. Between the ages ofmid 40's to 6 years old.

Oh yeah, one more thing. This family had 115 foster kids through their home over the years.