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Luiz Costa De Oliveira, Brazilian Man, Fathers More Than 50 Children (VIDEO)

First Posted: 09/20/11 01:02 PM ET Updated: 11/20/11 05:12 AM ET

After two marriages, plus affairs with his second wife's sister and her mother, a Brazilian man has fathered 50 children.

Luiz Costa de Oliveira admitted to Britain's Sun newspaper that he does not know all his offspring's names.

The 90-year-old had 17 children with his first wife, and another 17 with his second.

That makes 35, but Peopleulikeus.com reports that the amorous senior became romantically involved with his second wife's sister, who had moved into his house to help care for his large family. She gave birth to a further 15 children during their affair, putting his grand total at 50.

At least, the grand total of children de Oliveria knows about. He told the Telegraph: "The best thing God made in the world was women... I could even have other children and not know it because I always liked to go out with women.”

Guanabee.com quotes de Oliveria's second wife, Maria Francisca, as saying ""Luiz's only hobby was making love." With over 100 grandchildren and counting, the evidence certainly seems to back up her story.

 
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01:16 PM on 09/26/2011
And just ONE sperm donor to a sperm bank can father 100's or more in the same city. Dating your sister or brother, anyone?
07:07 AM on 09/22/2011
Americans are always quick to judge people in other countries. Does anyone here know what polygamy is? It's a "little known" thing that happens in the northwest of the U.S. I think everyone should read up on it if you havn't. After that you can probably ask those people who practice it how many wives they have and how many kids they have fathered. But ohhhhhh, the media won't dare do stories on that. If you see some of the pictures of their "extended families" on the internet, it will make your head SPIN. But go ahead, hate Latin America. That's what Americans seem do best.
08:05 AM on 09/21/2011
This is beyond nauseating. "Some of his children died during a poverty-stricken childhood". Gee, I wonder why? I guess they were not strong enough in the daily struggle with their siblings to get enough to eat from the meagre offerings in the family pot. But don't worry; "Luis never mistreated any of his children" and "always gave us everything we needed". Give me a break. Then why did some of these kids starve to death?

Don't send aid to Latin America, send condoms and IUDs. And stop listening to all the ridiculous Chomskyite and Goodmanite crap about how all their problems were caused by Uncle Sam. Latin America had about 75 million people in 1900; it had 575 million in 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population). That is the number one reason for developing world poverty, not some leftist Ur-drama about MNCs and exploitation. And there is nothing that the US can do to help these countries if they do not control their population growth. It is futile trying to help countries that add more and more poor people at such a rate.
07:22 AM on 09/22/2011
Perhaps you havn't counted how many countries there are in S. America, Central America and the Caribbean to make your assessment on population. Now, count the number of countries there are in Latin America. That's right, TWENTY SIX countries. If there are more people in Latin America that's because there are more countries. The rest is U.S. and Canada, TWO countries. It's like trying to compare the population of Europe! Europe has 700+ million people and practically TWICE as small as South America in geographical size. So your saying that maybe Europe needs some condoms and IUD's too?
07:46 AM on 09/22/2011
Perhaps you should take a remedial reading course. I noted that 110 years ago Latin America and the Caribbean had 75 million people; in 2008 this had grown to 575 million people, and the growth was overwhelmingly by natural increase (not by immigration, but rather by an extraordinary number of children per family over successive generations). The population of the US has grown as well, but in recent decades primarily because of immigration. Ditto with Western Europe and Japan; some countries like Germany and Italy actually have declining populations, but they are happy with that because their citizens do not want massive immigration, legal or illegal.

Look at it on a country by country basis: In 1910 Mexico had around 14 million people; today it has over 100 million, about 10 million of whom are illegally in the US. Guatemala had around 3 million people in 1950; it has 15 million today. Haiti had roughly 1.5 million people a century ago; today it is 10 million. And on and on. Almost all of this demographic increase is from people having 5, 6 or more kids per family over several generations. These people are overwhelmingly poor, so the kids naturally grow up poor. You cannot argue with statistics like these, or the grim reality that they reflect.

Here is an example from closer to home. 11 kids by three men. And she rails about poverty among Chicanos! She should buy a mirror instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Huerta
03:55 AM on 10/02/2011
I would like you, in the USA get some culture about the rest of the world and stopped to write silly comments based on your own ignorance and beliefs. I noticed many foolish:

1. "Don't send aid to Latin America"
The article upon Brazil, so, this means you areincluding Brazil in latin/hispanic culture but even a little child in a russian kindergarten knows Braziliansare not latinos. We have different culture due to different colonization: portuguese, jewish, german, dutch, italian, japanese, russian/ukrainian, polish, arab, african;

2. "Don't send aid"
Aid, dude? USA needs aid. Not us. You arein recession and shrinking while we grow
year after year. How can you help us with money if we hold 200 billion of your debt? Yes, United States owes us.Never helped us;
05:21 AM on 10/02/2011
Hey, Jorge2609. I know all about Brazil. Look at a map - it is in Latin America. Brazil is notorious for having one of the worst income and wealth distributions in the entire world. A few years ago I attended a concert by Luciana Souza (yes, she's Brazilian), and she interrupted her show to rail about Brazil's total lack of a middle class. And my friends who have visited Brazil all tell me the same thing. A tiny oligarchy owns 95% of the wealth. 80% of the population could slave a lifetime and be no better off for it. Wonderful place.

As it happens, we also have 200,000 illegal aliens from Brazil right here in Massachusetts. That is known in America as "voting with one's feet". Your Brazilian countrymen who come here illegally are getting free medical services and the rest, and like your countrymen at home generally they are not paying any income taxes. Some of what they save is sent back home as remittances. Maybe you have no problem with that, but to us (non-Brazilian US citizen taxpayers) here it is called tax evasion and is clearly a form of aid.

If I wanted to live like a Brazilian, in poverty and cranking out 50 kids (I see you do not want to discuss that), I would move to Brazil. I do not. But ICE et al have decided to shove it down our throats here, against our wills and votes and laws.

Who's ignorant now, Jorge?
03:41 PM on 09/20/2011
What is it with hispanics and breeding like there's no tomorrow? They drop out babies every year here and expect us taxpayers to support them.
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GOODDOC1
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04:24 PM on 09/20/2011
You do know this happened in Brazil, don't you? So you're not going to be supporting any of them. And they don't even speak Spanish in Brazil -- they speak Portugese.
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03:35 PM on 09/20/2011
STUPID, STUPID WOMEN! Not to worry, US will send more Foreign Aid.
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03:23 PM on 09/20/2011
A lot of you are saying that someone can't count because "17 with first wife, 17 with second= 34. plus the 15 from the second wife's sister is actually 49". Maybe you didn't catch the fact that he also had one by his mother-in-law. That makes 50.
03:22 PM on 09/20/2011
This is the mentality of our friends south of the border; have them (kids) young, and have them often. This is one of the reasons America is imploding; every day hundreds more illegals are signing up for welfare for the kids that have been labelled American simply because they were pushed out on American soil. America is a giant candy store, and no one is manning the cash register.
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03:33 PM on 09/20/2011
Hey "nicarol" You think this is just south of the border??? Are YOU saying no one in America has children often and young??? My don't you sound just a tad racist...Ever been to say Texas??? Home of the most unwed mothers in the country...Maybe we should have Rick Perry manning the cash register, but the problem would be when it comes to giving back the change...Now come down off of your high horse and get back in that cabin of yours....
03:34 PM on 09/20/2011
And the mentality of the Right to Lifers who want to make child planning illegal, prevent birth control etc etc....
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03:04 PM on 09/20/2011
oh thank GOD they're in another country. that's ALL we need is for me to be paying for them to get even MORE gub'ment aide!
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02:59 PM on 09/20/2011
The man sounds like a real catch. Yuck. His mother-in-law, his sister-in-law? I realize he lives in a Latin culture; however, unless he was extremely wealthy, and it doesn't sound like it, his actions were totally irresponsible. Fathering 49 (not 50 as the author states) children with three women sounds like he belonged to a cult. He may have started siring these kids at 14 or 15 years of age but one would think a vasectomy might be the order of the day after the first fifteen children. Sex can still be great even if the guy is sterile. Machismo?
02:45 PM on 09/20/2011
where did this writer fo to school - 17 + 17 is 34 not 35 and 15 more is 49
still not something to be proud of - feel sorry for the kids - not much of a role model
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02:42 PM on 09/20/2011
Two sisters, plus one of their mothers? Wow, "family values" Braxzilian style. If as one wife says "we never wanted for anything" how come some of the children died due to poverty?
02:42 PM on 09/20/2011
Is this above average for a South American country? It certainly seems like every family from there has kids by the truck-load. Then they wonder why they have such high levels of poverty and starvation.
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02:37 PM on 09/20/2011
If this wasn't a case for "male castration" nothing is. Tell me he fed, clothed, and educated them all?
02:33 PM on 09/20/2011
I think it is utterly disgusting anyone would give this man any media attention for being the pig of all pigs!
02:28 PM on 09/20/2011
So when he had a child with his mother-in-law, he fathered a new brother or sister for his wife, a new child and in-law for himself, and a new aunt or uncle for his children with one shot. Here's to getting all you can out of it. Did I miss anything?
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03:21 PM on 09/20/2011
I wonder if he's his own Grandpa yet.
04:47 PM on 09/20/2011
I think you've pretty much covered it all PGH, it can't get any deeper than that.
04:58 PM on 09/20/2011
Whats funny is the two sister's kids are both half brothers and sisters and 1st cousins at the same time. Ok, my head is starting to hurt.