Man with over 100 kids now has his 12 wives on birth control pills

After having 102 kids and 578 grandchildren, a man from Uganda has admitted to being irresponsible for producing so many children whom he can't look after. Ugandan villager Musa Hasahya Kasera said he does not even remember most of their names. But while the 68-year-old now feels that enough is enough, he does not use contraception. Instead, his 12 wives are now on birth control pills.

"At first it was a joke..." Kasera told news agency AFP referring to his number of offspring. "But now this has its problems. With my health failing and merely two acres of land for such a huge family, two of my wives left because I could not afford the basics like food, education, and clothing."

"My wives are on contraceptives but I am not. I don't expect to have more children because I have learned from my irresponsible act of producing so many children that I can't look after," Kasera, who is currently unemployed but has become something of a tourist attraction in his village Bugisa, said.

Polygamy is legal in Uganda -- a country with one of the highest birth rates in the world, with only 50 percent of women getting access to modern birth control, according to the UN.

Recounting his first marriage, Kasera said it happened in 1972 with a traditional ceremony when they were both about 17 and his first child Sandra Nabwire was born a year later. "I was advised by my brother, relatives, and friends to marry many wives to produce many children to expand our family heritage," Kasera said.