34 Children And Counting

[Jodell88]

Jeane and Paul Briggs have 34 children - 29 of whom were adopted from other countries including Mexico, Ghana and Ukraine. Now their family is about to get even bigger.

In 1985, Jeane Briggs was at church when she was shown a photograph of a two-year-old boy. He was living in an orphanage in Mexico, was blind and had been beaten so badly that he was in a body cast - his legs were broken and he had suffered brain damage.

Shortly after seeing that picture, Jeane and her husband Paul went to Mexico to visit the orphanage and met the little boy. "I saw him knowing that he could be our child," recalls Jeane. "I knew instantly that we should adopt him." Several months later they did just that.

Abraham is now 31 and lives at the family home in West Virginia - he has a girlfriend and, despite his injuries as a child, is a naturally talented musician who can play the piano and guitar and composes his own music.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30386348?ocid=socialflow_twitter

 

[DigDog]

nooo.

i came here expecting a thread about a welfare mum and now i'm disappointed.

what will i do with my sarcastic "quick, someone send her The Joy Of Anal video!" comment.

 

[Thebobo]

Children hoarding? Seems strange to me.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Children hoarding? Seems strange to me.

Not in West Virginia! It takes 34 of them up there to make a full set of teeth.

 

[manimal]

Not in West Virginia! It takes 34 of them up there to make a full set of teeth.

BOOM lol




God bless them and their good work. Takes a lot of strenght and patience to take care of that many kids. I almost lose my mind all the time with triplets. Dont know how my mom did it with 7 kids. 34? /passout

 

[blackdogdeek]

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