The world's biggest family: Taking care of your seeds edition

one_manshow
one_manshow Members Posts: 4,591 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2011 in The Social Lounge
* Ziona Chana lives with all of them in a 100-room mansion
* His wives take it in turns to share his bed
* It takes 30 whole chickens just to make dinner

He is head of the world's biggest family - and says he is 'blessed' to have his 39 wives.

Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.

They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.

The full monty: The Ziona family in its entirety with all 181 members

Mr Chana told the Sun: 'Today I feel like ? 's special child. He's given me so many people to look after.

'I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the world's largest family.'

The family is organised with almost military discipline, with the oldest wife Zathiangi organising her fellow partners to perform household chores such as cleaning, washing and preparing meals.

One evening meal can see them pluck 30 chickens, peel 132lb of potatoes and boil up to 220lb of rice.

Coincidentally, Mr Chana is also head of a sect that allows members to take as many wives as he wants.

He even married ten women in one year, when he was at his most prolific, and enjoys his own double bed while his wives have to make do with communal dormitories.

He keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom with the older members of the family sleeping further away - and there is a rotation system for who visits Mr Chana's bedroom.

Rinkmini, one of Mr Chana's wives who is 35 years old, said: 'We stay around him as he is the most important person in the house. He is the most handsome person in the village.

She says Mr Chana noticed her on a morning walk in the village 18 years ago and wrote her a letter asking for her hand in marriage.

Another of his wives, Huntharnghanki, said the entire family gets along well. The family system is reportedly based on 'mutual love and respect'

And Mr Chana, whose religious sect has 4,00 members, says he has not stopped looking for new wives.

'To expand my sect, I am willing to go even to the U.S. to marry,' he said.

One of his sons insisted that Mr Chana, whose grandfather also had many wives, marries the poor women from the village so he can look after them.


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With 100 rooms the Ziona mansion is the biggest concrete structure in the hilly village of Baktawng

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Wives of Mr Ziona Chana poses with his 39 wives at their home in Baktawang, Mizoram, India

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How can a man with much less living in a third world country do so much but we got people living in the West who can't take care of one/two children?

Comments

  • huey
    huey Members Posts: 11,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2011
    ? ? ..

    nah, that probably sucks for him
  • one_manshow
    one_manshow Members Posts: 4,591 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2011
    freehuey89 wrote: »
    ? ? ..

    nah, that probably sucks for him

    No ? ? my dude there are many stories like this all parts of the world and you got people living in North America who can't take care of one child.

    All the wives getting along all the kids happy.
  • huey
    huey Members Posts: 11,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2011
    No ? ? my dude there are many stories like this all parts of the world and you got people living in North America who can't take care of one child.

    All the wives getting along all the kids happy.

    you dont know that. cultures are different, women are regarded as property in some places in the world.
  • shtoopid
    shtoopid Members Posts: 2,546 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2011
    We stay around him as he is the most important person in the house. He is the most handsome person in the village.

    damn... imagine if ? in the us were this loyal

    but real talk, it sound like he's taking care of all of them, so if they're happy, i don't see the problem
  • judahxulu
    judahxulu Members Posts: 3,988 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2011
    freehuey89 wrote: »
    you dont know that. cultures are different, women are regarded as property in some places in the world.

    oh you mean like in america?
  • one_manshow
    one_manshow Members Posts: 4,591 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2011
    freehuey89 wrote: »
    you dont know that. cultures are different, women are regarded as property in some places in the world.

    Read the article son..

    Even if they are treated like "property" they getting treated better than La'Shaquita in America who has 3 different baby fathers who ain't claiming their seeds unless they the next Lebron James.

    Waits for rebuttal.
  • glowy
    glowy Members Posts: 3,995 ✭✭✭
    edited February 2011
    He doesn't have much less, his rich.