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If your house is a madhouse with too many occupants, imagine the mayhem associated with feeding over 20 children, or even worse, over 50 children.

Managing the impact of a soaring human population, especially with these 10 families, will be one of the most politically fraught issues governments will grapple in coming decades. Although the rate of population growths has slowed down since the 80s, the UN estimates the world’s population has increased by approximately76 million a year this century. This increasingly pushes up greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbates the destruction of wildlife habitats.

1. Vassilyev Family:

The Vassilyev family holds the record for the most children a couple has parented. Mrs. Vassilyev has given birth to a total of 69 children, including 16 pairs of twins and 7 sets of triplets. 67 of the 69 children survived infancy.

2. Albina Family:

Mr. & Mrs. Albina have 64 children and the most amazing part of it is that none of them are adopted. Both were married when Mrs. Albina was 12 and Mr. Albina was 30. The family now lives in a 2 room shack in Chile. Will this be it for the two? Who knows… Mrs. Albina is 61 and Mr. Albina is 79.

3. Daad clan:

“DAAD” Daad Mohammed is a Muslim father from the UAE, who at 60 has a total of 88 children and 17 different wives. He claims to have sex with his wives every day; twice during the day and seven times in the evening. According to UAE laws, he is allowed to have only 4 wives at one time. He divorced wives who were no longer fertile.

4. The Chana family:

Ziona Chana lives in a 4 storey, 100 room house in Baktawng, India. He has the world’s biggest family with 30 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren. He admits to marrying 10 women in 1 year and is the head of a sect which permits polygamy.

5. The Duggar family:

The World’s largest immediate family just got bigger. In November of 2011, Michelle Duggar and her husband Jim Bob announced that were expecting their 20th child. Michelle Duggar was 45 years old at the time and they was grateful for the new addition. The couple had been married for 27+ years at the time of conception.

Many TV families have set precedents. The modern family has been redefined several times throughout history. Here are just 10 examples where families were seen as unconventional.

1. The Huxtables:

An African American family was featured on the television show, The Crosby Show, in the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike in previous shows, this African American family was affluent and was living in Brooklyn. The patriarch was an obstetrician, while the matriarch was a lawyer. The stereotypes of the African American family changed ever since this show.

2. The Connors:

This TV family was different from its predecessors. Before the show Roseanne began, its predecessors showed a working class family with only one breadwinner. On the show Roseanne, the Connors were a work class family with 2 breadwinners. Both mother and father struggled throughout the series to find their foothold.

3. Drummonds/Jacksons:

First time in television history one sees a blended family. A wealthy businessman takes in two orphans whose mother (former employee of the wealthy businessman) dies. The two orphans, Arnold and Willis (African American), join the family of their new father and new sister.

4. Torres/Robbins:

Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins are a homosexual/bisexual couple on the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. The idea of a family with 2 mothers or 2 fathers has been left untouched by other shows. This was the first time 2 major characters would become parents (one being an adoptive parent) on the show and raise a child. The father is Mark Sloan, from Callie’s one night stand.

5. The Winters:

This is another family that has changed television history. Since the 1990s, the Winters have defined daytime television on the Young & the Restless. The show promulgates them as affluent: doctors, CEOs and even models working for Fortune 500 companies. Soaps have gone a long way since the 1980s, where African Americans were gang related and bad guys. Most of them were also lower or middle class citizens.