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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe McGhee sextuplets,6 years later.....
http://www.countryliving.com/life/kids-pets/a38827/mcghee-sextuplets-viral-photo/?mag=clg&list=nl_ccr_news&src=nl&date=061316Kali
(55,011 posts)SIX kids at once!!!
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)good one!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Fla Dem
(23,677 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)K and R
lunatica
(53,410 posts)lol! I love those photos.
AwakeAtLast
(14,130 posts)That's enough for me.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It's such a universal experience.
But I guess they must do it to tear themselves away from our apron strings.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)on their own and procreate the next generation. And it helps the parents be more ready (relieved?) to let them go when the time comes. I really believe it is a hard-wired behavior that came down to us through natural selection. Adolescents who were extremely docile and dependent by nature would have been less likely to leave home and therefore didn't reproduce that trait.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)What a beautiful family.
Chellee
(2,097 posts)I love the fact that the little girl on Dad's head, and the boy all the way to the right, have exactly the same smiles now as they did when they were babies.