How Many Kids Did Your Parents Have? In Your Family of Origin. And What Child Were You?

I am the youngest of 16 children. My mother gave birth to 14 of us, and my father had 2 children from a previous marriage.

Only my youngest brother, now in his 80's and I are still living.
 
My mother had 4 kids. One with her first husband - that was an arranged marriage (part of her silly Middle Eastern culture - family brings a guy to the house, says, "Meet your husband," daughter has no choice....he can be 30 years older; doesn't matter.) She was married to him for a few months, they had a daughter, she got an annulment, left her country & abandoned her daughter when she was 5 months old. I didn't know I had a half sister until I was 16 & she came to stay with us for a few weeks. She moved to Illinois where she met my dad, married again & had 3 more kids. I'm the middle one. My older brother is what I call "An example of nature's carelessness" - a thief, scam artist, convicted felon (fraud), major dirtbag. Our mom & dad paid over $200,000.00 to keep him out of prison after he was convicted & sentenced to a year. When our parents passed, my brother didn't agree with their will & trust that divided their assets equally - he wanted everything, so he started a court battle that took 7 years & over $100,000.00 in legal fees. When it was over, he had to sell the house his mommy & daddy bought him to pay the judgement in our favor and his attorney.

While we were growing up, I'd frequently crack my dad up by saying to him: "What the hell were you & mom thinking?" and "I want DNA proof that my & my brother are related."
 

2 brothers,1 older,1 younger,although our parents died 2 years apart in the 60s we are not close at all,last time I saw the older was in 2007,the younger in 2010
 
My folks had five kids…probably

I was the second, or fourth

Of the five, the first two were stillborn
Heh, Dad would sometimes tell me a little about ‘em
‘Gary, you almost had two older brothers…of course if they’d lived, you wouldn’t be here’
Gave me a rather odd feeling

Then we got a foster kid
Dad’s favorite
Felt a bit odd about that too
Nice one, ‘Dad’, if that is yer real name

Later in life, at reunions and such, kinfolks would quiz me on why I left so early
Never liked to talk about the whys

Told ‘em I was incorrigible
By the time they’d figgered out what that word meant, I was outa the room

Not a lota mental giants hangin’ in my family tree

Not a lota limbs either
 

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