{"id":17806,"date":"2022-06-01T23:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=17806"},"modified":"2022-06-01T23:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:07:57","slug":"worlds-most-inbred-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/01\/worlds-most-inbred-family\/","title":{"rendered":"22 years after visiting the &#8220;world&#8217;s most inbred family,&#8221; a filmmaker returns home."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A filmmaker who documented the lives of an inbred family 22 years ago has returned, revealing that two of them sleep in the same single bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donors have raised thousands of dollars in the hopes of evicting the family from their back-country shack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Whittakers live in a remote rural area of West Virginia, largely cut off from civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;ve had limited access to education, with only one relative, Timmy, claiming to have completed high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photographer Mark Laita met the Whittakers 20 years ago and has returned several times to their cramped home where they live with several dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The relatives suffer from a variety of severe physical and mental impairments, with some unable to articulate and speaking only in grunts. It is thought to be the result of inbreeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, the filmmaker organized a fundraiser to help them escape the squalor of their dilapidated, falling-apart house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Mark went to see the family after they received the generous donations, he discovered that they had spent the entire amount on a number of home improvements, including a new truck, roof, kitchen remodel, and a coal heater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the relatives shows Mark around their cramped home, where two of the adult men share a single bed and an air mattress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A filmmaker who documented the lives of an inbred family 22 years ago has 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