Family is...the most difficult job: no days off, no salary and on a voluntary basis...
Most big family Chinese Qion Han, who lives in India, can boast. He is currently married to 39 women, with whom he has 94 children. And the children, in turn, have already pleased Khan with 33 grandchildren.
The British couple, the Watsons, claim the title of one of the strangest families. When Barry and Anne got married, they became husband and wife in the full sense of the word. Imagine Anne’s amazement when her husband admitted to her that he could no longer exist in a man’s body! Having recovered from the shock, the woman agreed with him. Moreover, she supported me after the operation. In 2011, they remarried as a same-sex couple.
German men compare their angry lovers to fire-breathing monsters - dragons. After all, it is in German that there is an apt expression that can be translated into Russian as “food for the dragon.” By “food” we mean a bottle of perfume, a box of sweets, a bouquet of favorite flowers - in general, everything that a guilty husband can use to butter up his offended wife.
Ancient Romans and Roman women were considered officially married after a kiss.
The legendary Kama Sutra is not at all such a frivolous book as is commonly thought. After all, today publishers print, and booksellers offer to buy only a fifth of it, dedicated to the joys of love itself. The remaining four parts tell a rather boring story about family values.
Almost half of US states cousins and sisters cannot create families - that is the law. Although scientists have competently proven that the percentage of children with disabilities in such families is only slightly higher than among ordinary couples.
Sometimes love for family can make a person give up his lifelong passion. Charles Simonyi, who made two trips into low-Earth orbit as a space tourist, when he got married, promised his wife not to do it again. Moreover, he reinforced the promise with a clause in the marriage contract.
The phrase “Swedish family” has no meaning family values Swedes have nothing to do with it. The Scandinavians adhere to the traditional structure of “cells of society”, and the situation when several people cohabit under one roof as husbands and wives is found in many nations of the world.
Girls of one of the Australian tribes become family ladies immediately after birth: by this time grooms are already being found for them, after which a semblance of marriage is concluded.
According to the results of one of the surveys conducted by Russian sociologists, a third of husbands and wives, even disgusted with each other, are ready to save the family for the well-being of the child (children).
A modern married couple spends only a few minutes a day fully together. This is due to an increase in working hours, the appearance of children, television, the Internet, distraction by hobbies, and preoccupation with household and family responsibilities.
The English word "marriage" comes from the Latin word "mas", meaning "guy" or "male". The earliest known uses of the word are English date back to the 13th century.
More than 75% of people who get married for the first time eventually get divorced.
The Oneida Colony, established in New York in 1848, advocated "compound" or group marriage, in which each woman was married to each man. They also practiced "scientific supervision", where expectant parents were monitored by a physical and mental health committee.
Traditionally, bridesmaids are expected to wear similar dresses to the bride to confuse the groom's rivals, evil spirits and robbers.
Marriage between spouses under 25 years of age significantly increases the risk of divorce. Additionally, the risk is higher when the woman is much older than the man, although this is not a very influential factor.
At an Italian wedding, breaking glass or mirror is a common event. It is believed that the number of fragments will be equal to the number of happy years that the couple will live together.
The word "husband" comes from the Old Norse "husbondi" or "master of the house" (literally, hus, "house" + bondi = "master of the house, inhabitant").
Some scholars have traced the origins of the word "bride" to the Proto-Indo-European root "bru," meaning "to cook, to make broth."
The term "groom" comes from the old English word"guma" which means "man".
People's level of education influences the age at which they marry. In states with higher numbers of college-educated adults, couples marry later. The opposite trend is observed in countries with low levels of education.
There is a 20% chance that a first marriage will end in divorce within the first 5 years. When cohabiting, this figure reaches 50%.
The Code of Hammurabi (circa 1790 BC) includes ancient Babylonian scriptures and marriage laws. These early laws defined marriage as a contract that served to protect the female side while at the same time limiting her. Under the Code, a man had every right to divorce his wife if she was unable to bear children or she was a "tramp" who humiliated her husband in public and neglected her home. In addition, the wife must “drown herself” in the river or commit suicide if she cheated on her husband.
People who lost their marriage during serious illness, live much less than those who are widowed, have a happy family, or have never been married at all.
In Ancient Greece, Solon (638-538 BC) made marriage compulsory, and in Athens under Pericles (495-429 BC), bachelors were excluded from certain government positions unless they had a wife and children. In Sparta, single and childless people received contempt from society. In Ancient Rome (63 BC), laws were quickly passed that forced everyone to marry and punished those who remained single.
The marriage ceremony usually ends with a kiss because in ancient Rome, a kiss had a legal connection with the completion of contracts, which meant entering into legal force.
The stress associated with divorce affects the body's immune system and its ability to resist disease.
Throughout most of history, marriage was not necessarily based on mutual love. Sometimes couples came together to mutually acquire property or create a joint business. And even now such a situation is not uncommon.
A white man from New Orleans in the late nineteenth century received a blood transfusion from the black woman he loved in an attempt to overcome anti-discrimination laws. He claimed that he had also become just like her and could get married. How this story ended is unknown.
Compared to single people, married people accumulate, on average, four times more wealth and assets. Those who are divorced have 77% less valuable assets than those who are single.
Married older people are more likely to stay healthy if they exercise physical exercise, quit smoking, eat right and undergo regular medical examinations.
About 60% of married adults have at least one job.
The first written mention of same-sex marriage comes from Ancient Rome. While Christianity was being formed as an official religion, these ceremonies took place without much discussion. In 1989, Denmark became the first nation since Christianity to legally recognize same-sex marriage.
Words make up only 7% of our communication with anyone, including between spouses. Tone of voice accounts for 38% and body language accounts for the remainder (55%) of a couple's relationship.
Women who talk about a fair division of household labor tend to boast more happy marriage than women who are stressed from dissatisfaction with their husbands’ failure to fulfill their household responsibilities.
Researchers found a huge decline in relationship satisfaction after four years of marriage, and a significant decline by seven to eight years. In fact, half of all divorces occur in the first seven years of marriage.
Family people are twice as likely to go to church.
Married couples with children divorce much less often than childless couples.
The number of cohabiting men and women aged 65 and over doubled between 1990 and 2000.
15 years of research have shown that increased level A person's happiness before marriage is a guarantee of happiness in family life.
Every seven seconds a child is born in the world!
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Record number of children born to one woman was 69. According to reports made in 1782, between 1725 and 1765. the wife of the Russian peasant Fyodor Vasiliev gave birth 27 times, giving birth to twins 16 times, triplets 7 times and twins 4 times. Of these, only 2 children died in infancy. In another part of the world in South America, the most prolific mother is considered to be Leontina Albina (or Alvina) from San Antonio, Chile, who in 1943-81. gave birth to 55 children. As a result of her first 5 pregnancies, she gave birth to triplets, all of them male.
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The oldest woman in labor Rosanna Dalla Corta from Viterbo, Italy, gave birth to a boy on July 18, 1994 at the age of 63; Before this, she underwent treatment for infertility.
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Longest intervals between births during multiple pregnancy.
Peggy Lynn from Huntington, NY Pennsylvania, USA, gave birth to a girl, Hannah, on November 11, 1995, and the second of the twins, Eric, only 84 days later (February 2, 1996).
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The largest baby in the world born in Italy in 1955. His weight was 10 kilograms 200 grams. A baby born in Altai has set a record for the 21st millennium. Her weight at birth was 7 kilograms 750 grams with a height quite average for a newborn - 56 centimeters. The girl was born on September 17, 2007 in the city of Aleysk.
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The smallest child in the world is considered a boy from Germany who was born prematurely at the 25th week of pregnancy and at birth weighed about 270 grams, his height reached 27 centimeters. The most premature baby The survivor who managed to survive is a girl, Amalia Taylor, born at 22 weeks of pregnancy in October 2006 in Miami, weighing 284 g and measuring 24 cm long.
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Lowest birth rate(for the period 2005-2010) was noted in Germany - 8 children per 1000 inhabitants per year. According to German statistics, every fifth German woman (age up to 45 years was analyzed) has never had children, and among them 28% have higher education. A real paradox: German families are among the strongest in the world, but a third of married couples do not want to have children. The main reasons are the desire to live for oneself and being busy. If we take a single city, then Chemnitz (formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt) stands out, where the birth rate is still almost one and a half times lower. Second, third and fourth places in the list of countries with the lowest birth rate are shared by three developed Asian countries - Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.
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Highest birth rate recorded in Nigeria, where there are 51 newborns per 1000 inhabitants.
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The largest family in the world lives in India. Zion Khan, the head of the family, is surrounded by 39 wives, 94 children, 33 grandchildren - a total of 167 people. According to journalists' calculations, this family eats about 200 kilograms of rice, a little more than 130 kilograms of potatoes, and about 30 chickens per day.
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The largest family in Russia lives in the Orenburg region, in this family there are 64 children, their parents are the rector of the temple and his wife. Twenty-four children in this family have been adopted and the rest are in foster care. Children were taken from shelters and orphanages in many cities; most of the children ended up with various serious illnesses.
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Most children in the world from the Moroccan Sultan Ismail. He, like a real father, raises 548 sons and 340 daughters. In his large harem, on average, a child was born every 20 days.
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The youngest mother on the planet became 5-year-old Lina Medina from Peru. In 1939 she gave birth to a boy with the help caesarean section. This is the earliest recorded case of childbirth in the entire history of modern medical observations.
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The youngest grandmother Romanian Rifka Stanescu became the world's largest player at the age of 23. At the age of 11, the girl ran away from home with her chosen one, and soon they had a daughter. A year later, a son was born. Rifka's daughter, having become an adult, repeated the fate of her mother - she decided to get married before finishing school (at the age of 11). The girl moved to live with her chosen one, and six months later gave birth to a son.
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The most unusual female names
According to the registry office of Russia, the names are: Gryazina, Banana, Dust, Vanna, Afigenia, Belka, Trishka, Evdoksia. The most unusual names for boys are Edgard, Darius, Bluetooth, Yarobog, Eneken, Zhiromir, Luchezar.
According to RIA Novosti with reference to the capital's Civil Registry Office, last year children with unusual names newborns Angel Maria, Princess Angelina, Casper the Beloved, in addition, Yagoda, North, Wind, Privatization, Space, Martizia, Volpurgia, Knox now live in the capital.
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The most smart child planets, recognized by the Guinness Book of Records, was 11-year-old Mahmud Vail. The young Egyptian has the highest IQ among his peers, his IQ is 155 units. Mahmoud Wa'il Mahmoud was born on January 1, 1999 in one of the densely populated areas of Cairo into a middle-income family, both of his parents are doctors. The brilliant boy is the third child in the family; he has two older sisters. Thanks to his phenomenal abilities, a superintellectual child can perform complex arithmetic calculations directly in his mind. He easily multiplies and divides nine-digit numbers at computer speed, and does it with pleasure and without any effort.
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In Korea those 9 months that the child is in the womb are counted towards age. Therefore, according to documents, Korean children are always a year older than their peers from other countries, although physically there is no difference in age.
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Most twins in the world births in Nigeria: one in every 11 births. Twins are the least likely to occur in Japan: one case per 250 births.
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In most languages of the world the words “mom” and “dad” have a similar sound. This is not explained by the common origin of all languages, but by the fact that these words are the first word-like sounds that babbling children utter.
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In Japan In relation to children, the words “bad” and “bad” are not used at all.
I think each of us at least once called our family the Addams family. After all, in every family unique individuals are born who are capable of driving its other members to madness. But believe me, there are truly unique families in the world with whom it is difficult to compete in originality.
Unique albinos
In Brazil, in the state of Pernambuco, there lives a truly unusual family. The father and mother are very ordinary Brazilians, but of their five children, three were born with completely white skin. This is simply a unique case, because even the theoretical possibility of the birth of an albino in a Brazilian family is one in seventeen thousand cases.You can't envy albino children in a small town. All their lives they hear ridicule, neighbors forbid their children to play with them, and their mother was once almost arrested on suspicion of kidnapping white children.
Snow White Indians
Another unique albino family lives in India. Unlike their Brazilian “colleagues”, where some family members are albinos, in an Indian family all its members have white skin and hair. All 10 family members, and even grandchildren, are 100% albinos. The Pullan family is proud of their skin color and uniqueness, although this causes them a lot of trouble in the hot climate of India.
Risking your life to have children
American Stacey Herald has a seemingly “standard” American family - a husband and three children. But Stacy gave birth to all the children, risking her life, because her height is just over 70 centimeters, and Stacy is considered the shortest mother in the world.Stacey suffers from a rare osteogenesis disorder that causes brittle bones and underdeveloped lungs. The difference with Stacey’s husband’s height is more than a meter. Each pregnancy was a risk for her life, because the newborn children were almost half the height of their mother, and the small size of Stacy’s internal organs could simply not withstand the load of bearing children. But that's not the worst thing. Two of the three children inherited their mother's disease. But despite this, the parents are not going to stop adding to their family. Opinions on this decision, of course, differ - is it worth giving life to children, knowing that they will be sick all their lives? These parents probably think they can handle it.
Not a single girl in 20 years
Another unique family lives in the USA. All its members have standard height, weight and white skin. But over the more than 20-year period of the birth of children, only boys are born in this family. Jay and Kayteri Schwandt never found out the gender of their baby. Mom admits that she can’t even imagine what her reaction would be if a girl was born.In 2015, their family was expanded with a thirteenth son. Mom considers the number “thirteen” significant. She herself was the thirteenth child in the family, and her most youngest son born on the 13th and became the 13th child. Do parents want to try their luck and have another baby? So far they haven't said yes, but they haven't said no either.
Hairy beauties
Another unusual family lives in India, which consists of seven women - a mother and her six daughters. The father of the family, whom the mother married at the age of 12, died. What is special about these women? Three out of six daughters suffer from the rare disease hypertrichosis - excessive hairiness. Mother Anita Samari Rouse is confident that the girl inherited the “werewolf gene” from her father, whom she married “on pain of death.”But not everything is so sad. After the family was shown on TV, the girls were helped through the procedure laser hair removal, after which they noticeably became prettier.
Is it cheaper in bulk?
Another family lives in the USA, known throughout the world thanks to its mother Nadya Suleiman. Being unmarried, she is raising 14 children, 8 of whom were born on the same day. “Eight” was born when the woman already had six children. Multiple pregnancy occurred as a result of artificial insemination, which she had resorted to before. Nadya admits that she did not expect there to be so many children.The life of Nadia Suleiman causes a lot of controversy in society. After all, she is unemployed, lives on social benefits and money from talk shows, where she is constantly invited. She once admitted that she wanted to have many children to imitate her idol Angelina Jolie, because Nadya even did plastic surgery to look like a star. She is also accused of filming pornographic videos. Be that as it may, Nadya claims that she is a happy mother and loves her children.
Geminis are reluctant
American married couple Lisa and Adriana Shepard got married in 1994. They dreamed of children, but pregnancy did not occur. Then the couple decided to do IVF. Of the 14 embryos, they froze 12 and used 2. They had wonderful twin girls.A few years later they wanted another child. The couple went to the same clinic and used one of the frozen embryos. When their third daughter was born, Lizi and Adriana were speechless - the girl was simply a copy of her older sisters. It turns out that the twins were born 11 years apart! I wonder whether the youngest daughter will be similar only in appearance to her older sisters or will she also take on their character?
Polygamy is not a hindrance for a family
The USA is really rich in non-standard families, probably because people are not afraid to live the way they want and do not adapt to other people's rules. In this family, everyone is of normal height and weight, and their children were born at term. What makes them different from everyone else? Complex family relationships. This family consists of 8 adults and 3 children. Who are they related to each other? To be honest, it's difficult to figure out.The couple, Sierra and Martin, have been married for 9 years and have two daughters. Spouses Molly and David have been married for 15 years and have a daughter. These married couples are in polyamorous relationships with each other, while also having other lovers.
All members of this union know each other and have excellent relations with them. Are they jealous of their lawful halves? They claim no. They can meet other people openly without lying or feeling guilty about it. The spouses claim that in such a tandem their marriages have become even stronger, and their love has only increased.
Their children do not lack love. If one of their parents goes on vacation, the other always stays at home. This golden rule. By the way, children know their parents’ partners, but for children these are “friends” of mom and dad. If parents have unforeseen situations at work, they ask their lovers to babysit the children. Everyone is fine and everyone is happy! Are these people doing the right thing? I don't know, but I have no right to judge them.
Of course, this article does not contain all the amazing families living in the world. But if you know any, you can add to this list.
Photographs are the connecting thread of times. The life of the first person of the state is no exception. Footage from the family archive of the Putin couple will tell their story better than words.
Third son
Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952 and became the third child in the family of Maria and Vladimir Putin. He had two older brothers, both of whom died before he was born. The first-born Albert died of whooping cough before the war. Two-year-old Victor was taken from his family during the blockade. orphanage, where children were collected for further evacuation to the rear. The boy contracted diphtheria and died. They buried him in a mass grave at the Piskarevskoye cemetery, without even informing his family about it. Maria Ivanovna Putina was already over forty when she decided to give birth to her third child. The boy was born healthy and strong, weighing 3.2 kilograms.Where did Putin spend his childhood?
Baskov lane, house 12 – an inconspicuous house with a well-like yard. The Putins occupied a 20-meter room in a communal apartment on the 4th floor. There was no hot water and heating. We lit the stove and went to the Nekrasovskie baths to wash. There were mice scurrying around the house, and the “cluster” of neighbors was unimaginable - everyone knew everything about each other. The family did not live well; the main breadwinner was the father, who worked as a mechanic at a carriage building plant. But there was a telephone in the room - a rarity in those days. 
Vladimir Vladimirovich compared his childhood in the yard with the book “Generals of the Sand Quarries”: the street was divided between warring groups of children. Fights, an everyday occurrence, strengthened Volodya’s character - despite his slight build, he always went into battle first.
School years
In his youth, Vladimir Vladimirovich was not distinguished by exemplary behavior. He graduated from 4th grade with bad marks in drawing and singing. The pugnacious boy was not accepted into the pioneers until the 6th grade. Later, as a bet, he hung on his outstretched arms on the balcony of the fifth floor of the school, and at the graduation of the “eight-year-old” he bet that he would eat 20 cakes in one sitting; gave up on the sixteenth, but still received a standing ovation from his classmates: “Hurray, Putya!” (from memories class teacher Vera Gurevich). 
And here’s what his classmate Alexander Nikolaev remembers: “ IN school years Putin once hung on the balcony of the fifth floor of a school on a dare, fought better than anyone, and once stood up for the honor of the girls - he got into a fight with a physical education teacher».
Childhood dream
Vova and his courtyard friend Seryozha Bogdanov were reading Tom Sawyer. The novel sowed a passion for adventure in their hearts: they sailed on rafts through flooded basements (once Vladimir found an unexploded shell in the basement, brought it to the police and proudly slammed it on the table, for which he received a strong punishment from his father), spent the night in the forest. Even then, Vova dreamed of a career as an intelligence officer and deliberately subjected himself to tests to strengthen his character. Jumped naked into a snowdrift, swam on an ice floe. stripped down to his underpants. 
Having grown up, Vladimir watched the film “Shield and Sword” about military intelligence officers and for a long time did not cut his bangs, because with them he looked like one of the heroes. And once, as he stated school friend Putin Viktor Borisenko, he came to the KGB building and asked the guard at the entrance: “How can I apply for a job with you?” The guard replied: “It’s good to study,” and after that Vova came to his senses.
Intelligence work
After graduating from special school No. 281 with a chemical focus in 1970, Volodya entered the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University. One day, the dean’s office received a request from the KGB for five of the best students. Putin was also on the list of names provided. He was in good standing with his superiors, despite the frequent use of his office phone for personal purposes: he had “operational cover documents”; as a promising employee, he was sent to special German language courses, which was only allowed to a select few. He worked under the fictitious name "Platov". 
How Putin met his wife
Before her marriage, Lyudmila Putina (the editors of knowvse.ru note that Lyudmila Putina’s maiden name is Shkrebneva) worked as a flight attendant on domestic flights. On March 7, 1980, she and her friend flew to Leningrad for three days and first of all went to the theater, to a play by Arkady Raikin. There, through a mutual friend, the future spouses met. 
Putin's wedding
The couple officially registered their relationship in 1983. The editors of the site note that while already married, Lyudmila Putina graduated from Leningrad State University, receiving a diploma in philology and novelism.
Birth of Vladimir Putin's daughters
In 1985, Vladimir Putin received assignment to the GDR. Lyudmila, together with her little daughter Maria, born the same year, went after him. 
In 1986, in Dresden, the couple had a second daughter, Katerina. In 1990, the family returned to Leningrad, where fate collided with Putin and Anatoly Sobchak.
Career and family
Six years later the family moved to Moscow. At the same time, Vladimir Putin began his career in the government. 
In less than three years, the head of the family rose from deputy manager of the presidential affairs to secretary of the Security Council. In 2000, Vladimir Putin was elected president of the Russian Federation.
The country's first lady, Lyudmila Putina, rarely appeared in public, although her range of interests and hobbies was quite wide - art, skiing, tennis. In addition, Lyudmila Putina, who has excellent command of several foreign languages, initiated the creation of the Russian Language Development Center.
The reason the spouses named was Vladimir Putin’s constant employment with political and social activities and Lyudmila Putina’s rejection of this lifestyle. Let's remember the stages of this beautiful love.
Putin's personal life after divorce
The Putins call their divorce civilized and continue to communicate normally even after the official dissolution of the marriage. At the beginning of 2016, information appeared in the press that Lyudmila Putina got married again and changed her last name, but there were no official comments about this. But the president’s personal life remains a secret behind seven seals. According to the official version, his heart is free. 
The editors of the site note that from these photographs one can trace how both Vladimir Putin himself and his ex-wife Lyudmila have changed. We also invite you to look at how Russian politicians have changed since the early 90s.
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