Not to mention, the youngest of To take up bates The crew still has some high school diplomas to collect before they can arrange the future mothers and fathers for their children.
Much like the like oversized dewsThe evangelical, conservative Christians embrace a more philosophy when it comes to growing their family.
“We both came to the conclusion that we just wanted to trust God with how many children we had,” Gil explained in a 2011 Nightline interview, one year before they welcomed the youngest son Jeb Bates. “But we never really thought we would have 18. We thought maybe one or two, maybe three.”
Instead, they filled their 4,000 square meter Tennessee home with a whole baseball list and-after several performances on TLC’s hits series 19 children and counts– Invited cameras to catch all the chaos.
“Every year, you know, there was – just add another person,” eldest son Zach Bates explained Nightline“It doesn’t feel abnormal to me.”
Of course, now he and his younger siblings are the ones who go out and multiply. A whole decade after their UP -TV series wrapped their 10th and final season, he and his family still continue to take up new Bates offspring.
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