KID CRAZY
I’ve got 11 siblings & we were all born in the same year, my parents even gave us all names beginning with M
ONE man from Canada’s largest polygamist family explains the trick his parents used to keep track on all the siblings.
Murray Blackmore recently revealed that his family was growing from 150 siblings to 151, having grown up with one father and 27 mothers.
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He told that having 151 siblings has been the norm for his entire life and that he doesn’t know any different.
He captioned the video: “Basically a litter of children.”
Murray said that he has 11 siblings all born in the same year as each other.
He said: “What my parents did in my family, was name all the kids born in the same year – start with the same letter.
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“So everyone in my age group’s name all starts with an ‘M’.”
Murray is his father’s 65th child and often explains what life is like growing up in a polygamist commune.
His family used to be part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a church of Mormon faith.
The Blackmore siblings have previously revealed that they attend their own school and instead of living with their mums, all of the teens lived in a “motel house” together.
People flooded into the comments, expressing their surprise at Murray’s huge family unit.
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One person wrote: “Smart way not to forget how old your kids are!
“So was it a crapshoot as to the ‘letter of year’ or like Year 1 = A names, Year 2 = B names etc?”
He explained: “Basically random”
One user asked: “How much does it cost to support a family like this? And what do your parents do to afford it?”
Murray replied: “Gardening and a community effort.”
Another asked: “Do you support polygamy? Just wondering if your situation made you support it or against it.”
He responded: “I personally wouldn’t choose that lifestyle, but many of my siblings have and I support their decisions to be happy.”
The video has been viewed over 5.6million times and racked up over 862,300 likes.
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