Talk:Mariam Amash

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[edit] Discussion

Whoo! My first ever article! Crazy Eddy (talk) 22:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 120 Grandchildren?

Does that seem a little much to any of you? Codejkoolguy (talk) 04:35, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

It's a lot, certainly by the standards of most western countries in this point in time. But if you take the squareroot of 120, you get 11 (rounding up). So if she has 11 children, and each of those had 11 children, you'd get 11*11=121 grandchildren. Turn back the clock 100 years, and that does not seem so unlikely. Even with high infant mortality, it wouldn't be impossible to have this number of grandchildren surviving past the age of, say, five. Lilac Soul ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 07:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] World's Oldest Mother?

On the CNN report she claimed to have a son that was 54, which would make her 66 when she had him. There have only been three other women to have done so at that age, all in the last decade and with modern medicine. This makes her claim seem very suspicious and implies that she could be exaggerating by decades. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.111.184.92 (talk) 22:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree, that does make the claim unlikely, if indeed the CNN report said so. However, Wikipedia is not a place for original research, so unless you find a reliable source questioning her claim on this account, it shouldn't be added to the article. Lilac Soul ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 08:48, 21 February 2008 (UTC)