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Jombo Family Size
BAKTWANG, India — The head of the family and leader of the “Chana” sect — which allows polygamy — is 66-year-old Ziona Chana Mr Chan belongs to a sect where he can marry as many times as he wants and infact he is the head of that sect too.who is the ‘proud’ head of a jumbo sized family of 39 wives, 94 children, 14-daughters-in-laws and 33 grandchildren meaning its entire 181 members, this family is the World’s biggest family - setting the world record
But when he was growing up, Ziona believed he would never marry, saying: “My father had seven wives and looking after them was a difficult task. When I saw him surrounded by women all the time it put me off. But my wish was not God’s wish.”
He even married ten women in one year, when he was at his most prolific

Big Hose

Joint family – an Indian concept prevalent among Hindus is not commonly followed in Northeast India. In this Christian dominated part of the country, people are usually more educated and ‘westernized’. But Ziona Chana from Mizoram thinks ‘differently’. The Ziona family lives in a 100-room mansion, a 4 storey building situated at the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram
It almost looks like a hotel.
The family’s home is called Chhuanthar Run – which translates as “the house of the new generation” – in the hills of Baktawng village, in the Indian state of Mizoram.
It has its own school, a playground, carpentry workshops, piggery and poultry farms, paddy fields – and a vegetable garden big enough to feed the entire extended family.
Chana thanks God for giving him a huge family to look after and considers himself ‘lucky.’
Mr Chana’s grandfather also had many wives and according to one of his sons,his father marries the poor women from the village so he can look after them.
All the men of the family work as carpenters and Ziona says proudly: “We don’t want any help from the government.

Family Management
The family is a very well organised one living a disciplined life with the oldest member of the family giving the orders and mutually cordinating with each other in household chores such as cleaning, washing and preparing meals.The whole family system is based on ‘mutual love and respect’
Meal times are like feeding an army, with the women of the family spending hours making dinner.
A typical meal can see them plucking 30 chickens, peeling 132lb of spuds and boiling up 220lb of rice.
All the cooking is done over an open fire kept burning throughout the day.
Ziona’s eldest wife Zathiangi, 69, delegates all the daily duties around the house to his other wives, their daughters and the daughters-in-law.
He keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom with the older members of the family sleeping further away – and there is a rotation system for who visits Mr Chana’s bedroom.
He sleeps in his own double-bedded room while his wives have to adjust in dormitories.
Surprisingly, all the wives get along very well and there is hardly any infighting among them.

Rinkmini, one of Mr Chana’s wives who is 35 years old, said: ‘We stay around him as he is the most important person in the house. He is the most handsome person in the village.
She says Mr Chana noticed her on a morning walk in the village 18 years ago and wrote her a letter asking for her hand in marriage.
Mr Chan,the head of the family told in an interview:
‘Today I feel like God’s special child. He’s given me so many people to look after.
‘I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the world’s largest family.’
Surprisingly all his wives are quite happy with each other and have no problem at all.
Mr Zionamarried as many as 10 times in a year once and his wives take it in turns to share his bed.The youngest wife sleeps near to his bedroom with the olderwives sleeping further away.
One of her wife,Rinkmini, 35 who he spotted on a morning walk in the village 18 years agoand later sent the proposal, told:
‘We stay around him as he is the most important person in the house. He is the most handsome person in the village.
The husband has yet not stopped looking for wife.He even siad:
‘To expand my sect, I am willing to go even to the U.S. to marry,’
Another of his wives, Huntharnghanki, said the entire family gets along well. The family system is reportedly based on “mutual love and respect”
And Mr Chana, whose religious sect has 4,00 members, says he has not stopped looking for new wives.
“To expand my sect, I am willing to go even to the U.S. to marry,” he said.
One of his sons insisted that Mr Chana, whose grandfather also had many wives, marries the poor women from the village so he can look after them.
Message
If a family system is laid on the founding stone of mutual and genuine love and respect for each and every member, then the system is guaranteed to be a success.

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