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One thing to think about:

Is it advisable to have more children than you can care for and see they get a good education?

Currently, it costs at least $10,000 a year to send a child to college. With 16 children, that could amount to a total at least $640,000. It is doubtful the family in the article would have that much assets to fund educating their children.

Furthermore, let us consider how much it costs to raise a child (food, clothing, and medical care). A reasonable estimate would be about $5,000 dollars per year. Thus, the estimated outlay for the family would be about $1,440,000, assuming support for 18 years prior to the child starting college.

Adding the costs, the family needs to be able to raise over $2,000,000. IMHO, they have absolutely no chance of raising that level of funding.

I doubt that the girls will go to college. More than likely their goals will be to be just like their mother. Mothers and housewives, who are integral parts of their husbands success.

I also imagine that each and everyone of these girls will have lines of guys waiting for them when they get old enough to court.

With the work ethic of this family, I imagine that any of the kids that go on to college will work there way through school.

And with the popularity that this family has, I'm sure there will be a few philanthropists out there to invest in the lives of some hard working, well valued, young people.