family with 11 children under age 12

[John81]

Astonishing story of family with 11 children under age 12 hits the mainstream media


by Jeremy Kryn

• Tue Aug 16, 2011
  

The Kilmer family. Photo: The Washington Post

ROCKVILLE, MD, August 16, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The astonishing story of a Maryland family with 11 children, ranging in age from 1 to 12, has been featured in a back-to-school piece by the Washington Post Newspaper. The August 10 story chronicles the Kilmer household’s day-to-day life and details how they manage to stay lighthearted and have fun while balancing what some might consider an impossibly difficult lifestyle.

Read the Washington Post story here.

In an interview with LifeSiteNews (LSN), Larry Kilmer, a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, said he viewed speaking with the Post about his family as “an opportunity to show that large families can exist and survive in the Washington area.”

“It was a chance for others to see that with some sacrifices it can be done,” he said. “Despite the fear that ‘you cannot survive,’ we wanted to show that it is possible.”

The article introduces readers to Larry, a high school teacher, and his wife Jen, a stay-at-home mom, as well as children Christina, Joe, Michelle, Julie, Tommy, Steven, Matthew, John Paul, Larry, Rosemary, and Peter, none of whom are twins or triplets.

The feature chronicles the Kilmer family’s daily life, from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. It notes the many challenges the family faces, but also highlights the many blessings, including the tight friendships shared by the children and the role that the “rock of Faith” plays in the Kilmer household.

“A large family helps to instill in a person many of the strong values and virtues that a society needs in order to survive and continue,” Kilmer told LifeSiteNews.com. “In my opinion, the issue of putting others first is at the heart of a large family as you work and exist with other human beings in a close-knit environment.”

Commenting on the Washington Post story, Jenn Giroux, founder of Speaking of Motherhood, who is also the mother of a large family, told LSN, “This is an incredible and fair portrayal of this beautiful large family. It is rare to get this perspective from a liberal media outlet.”

“Large families have a positive impact on society,” Giroux said. “At a time when our national birthrate is dangerously low, large families are producing the future workers that will sustain the elderly in the very near future … They are raising the next generation of Church and political leaders.”

“At the heart of large families is the surrender to God’s supreme rights over our lives and an embrace and love of His gift of children,” she said. “Unfortunately, this is a foreign and/or unknown concept that has been gradually lost over the last 50 years.”

“It requires ‘blind trust’ in God in times of difficulty,” Giroux said. “This is a difficult concept for a contracepting society where those today seek to control everything from the day they conceive to sometimes the very sex of their baby.”

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[JerryNumbers]

Neat, but few parents would really sacrifice to have many children of their own, it might block their career & keep them from having many worldly possessions.

[John81]

Very true Jerry. Most couples have bought into the lie that children are a burden; one or two might be "fun", but any more is something to avoid...never mind what God has to say about it.

[blossom]

I think it's awesome and would have loved more kids, sometimes God has another plan.

It's a shame about the Catholic faith. It would be doubtful that they are saved although not impossible.

[John81]

I think it's awesome and would have loved more kids, sometimes God has another plan.

It's a shame about the Catholic faith. It would be doubtful that they are saved although not impossible.

God knows best how many children we should have, and when, though it's not always the same as our plans.

Hopefully with the publicity this family is getting they will also receive the Gospel.

[JerryNumbers]

I think it's awesome and would have loved more kids, sometimes God has another plan.

It's a shame about the Catholic faith. It would be doubtful that they are saved although not impossible.

Blossom, True, its not impossible for the RCC members to be saved, yet its true that this church does not teach its member how to be saved. So its very unlikely that many of those in leadership roll us not saved, so it would be unsaved teaches teaching in that church.

I've heard some of them say that they were saved, and they were not saved because of the teachings of the RCC, and they feel they should stay in the church to help teach the lost how to be saved. Making that claim and refusing to come out from among them goes against what God teaches.

2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

So what those that make such a claim do is support a church that God tells them to come out of.

And I might add that at one time I posted on a forum that was made up mostly Catholics that had been saved, come out from among them, and were now contending for the faith while depending on God's written word in the good old King James Bible. They would not let anyone post verses to support their belief from the modern versions of the Bible. I posted on that forum for about 1 year, enjoyed it, and learned quite a bit about the RCC teachings from those who had come out from among them.

Of course there is other churches as well that does not teach people how to be saved, instead teaches them to have a false hope of being saved, teaching them to depend on works and or water baptism. I would never say there is no saved people in such churches, yet if they are saved its in spite of the teachings that being proclaimed. And of course these people, as well as Catholics, when saved, are suppose to deny self and follow Christ. One cannot follow Christ if they're part of and supporting a false teaching church, to follow Christ they 1st have to come out from among them.

I might add, it seems to be God's plan for us seems to be a quiver full of children.

Ps 127:5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

The thing is many do not trust God on this issue, and they control how many children they will have, making these plans on their own, while not considering, trusting God. It does also seem that a child is a blessing from God to His Children.

Ge 29:31 ¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

No, many do everything humanly possible not to have a quiver full of children, not trusting God to open and or close the womb.

[DennisD]

Well, we have another baby on the way so I finally started clipping coupons for the grocery store. Next baby, I'll start running to work every so often to save on gas. LOL

Edited August 18, 2011 by DennisD

[JerryNumbers]

When you get a quiver full, you will only have time to work, help wife take care of that quiver full of children. Of course the older ones can be of much help with that chore.

[blossom]

Congratulations Mr Denis, that is a blessing.

We've never stopped it from happening it just doesn't. It has been a very hard road for me as having loads of children is all of ever wanted. But I can't move God's hand and I do have to accept his will. We've done everything short of IVF which we don't agree with (Personal Choice). We have been blessed with two beautiful boys and need to be grateful for that. If he gives us more I would be estatic.

[John81]

Well, we have another baby on the way so I finally started clipping coupons for the grocery store. Next baby, I'll start running to work every so often to save on gas. LOL

Congratulations! What a wonderful blessing from the Lord. We probably won't have any more such blessings from the Lord, but we are being blessed with grandchildren; one grandson and one granddaughter so far!

[BlessedChristianlady8]

Sorry bumping an old thread but, I was bought into the lie of that children are burdens, my parents with our stay at their house was attacking our faith, attacking our choices of having children in future and attacking big families like this and they are RCC. My husband recently got me stuff about the Duggars, Tea with MIchelle Duggar and how babies are a Blessing. There are some time left to have a handful if we start now.

[John81]

Sorry bumping an old thread but, I was bought into the lie of that children are burdens, my parents with our stay at their house was attacking our faith, attacking our choices of having children in future and attacking big families like this and they are RCC. My husband recently got me stuff about the Duggars, Tea with MIchelle Duggar and how babies are a Blessing. There are some time left to have a handful if we start now.

It's easy to buy into the lie of the devil that children are a burden, something to be avoided or limited. God willing you and your husband will be blessed with children.

[lettheredeemedsayso]

The Lord has truly blest them!