Proud new dad (90) says he wants lots more children
August 23, 2007 - 0:0
The world's oldest new dad has fathered his 21st child at the age of 90, and he says that he plans to continue breeding for at least another decade.
Nanu Ram Jogi, a farmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan, cannot remember exactly how many children he has produced with his four wives, but estimates that he has 12 sons, nine daughters and at least 20 grandchildren.""Women love me,"" he boasted as dozens of relatives came to see his 14-day-old daughter, Girija Rajkumari.
""I want to have more children. I can survive another few decades and want to have children until I am 100. Then maybe it will be time to stop.""
Jogi married his first wife, Lalki, in 1942 when he was 25, the world was at war and India was still five years away from gaining independence from Britain. He fathered his eldest daughter, Sita Devi, a year later.
He married his second wife, Punni, when he was 50 and his third marriage, to Rukman, came 20 years later in 1987. He married his current wife, Saburi, in 1997 when he was 80 and India's economic boom was beginning to get under way.
(Source: independent.ie
