The Duggar Family is still news, because not only are they super prolific they’re still reality stars. Their show, 19 Kids and Counting, has its 11th season premiering next month, so I guess this latest announcement dovetails nicely with that. Don’t worry, matriarch Michelle Duggar, 46, isn’t pregnant again with what would be her 20th child. Her daughter-in-law is expecting her third baby. The oldest Duggar boy, Josh, 25, is expecting his third baby with wife Anna, 24. (I’m surprised that they’re in their mid 20s already, I thought he was only 20.) They are already parents to a nearly two year-old son, Michael, and a three year-old daughter, Mackynzie. Here’s the announcement, from People:
The pitter-patter of little feet may sound more like a stampede at a Duggar get-together – and this summer the volume is due to increase.
The famously fertile family of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting have another baby on the way. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s oldest child, Josh, and his wife, Anna, tell PEOPLE they are expecting their third child.
They are already parents to daughter Mackynzie, 3, and son Michael, 21 months.
“It is very exciting,” says Josh, 25. “It’s fun for Michael and Mackynzie being so close in age and this baby will be, too. We feel very blessed and happy.”
Anna, 24, had taken a pregnancy test when the family visited Asia for 19 Kids and Counting: Duggars Do Asia (premiering Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on TLC), but it was negative.
“I thought for sure I was pregnant and so I was a little disappointed,” she says. “But two weeks later, I found out I was pregnant.”
After confirming the pregnancy and telling Josh, Anna and Duggar cousin Amy planned a family meal with baby carrots, baby corn and tiny cherry tomatoes to break the news to everyone else.
“Josh and Anna are great parents,” says Jim Bob, 47. “It is neat to see their family expanding. I remember those days when Michelle and I went from one to three because we had Josh and then we had twins. It is a great start.”
Read what Jim-Bob said about his third grandchild: “it’s a great start.” Three kids are “a great start.” You know that the pressure is on for these two to reach double digits and that they’re already behind their parents’ record. I hope they’re all happy and healthy, and they seem like a nice family in that cultish kind of way. I also hope that if Anna ever gets overwhelmed and decides that she doesn’t want to have any more babies, that Josh will respect her decision. You know it’s not hers to make though. Also, do you think these two are gunning for a spin off?
Here’s a clip from The Today Show with the announcement. Note that Michelle is back to her old hairstyle.
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Sigh. What does Josh do by the way? I know Dad has the free health care from being a senator, and had the house declared a church so it’s tax free-but these two are out on their own. How are they paying for stuff? Mom and Dad?
Plus, Josh is clearly gaining weight and he was always very smug about it good looks. It just makes me laugh about how he’s going to handle that.
in answer to your question, what is it they do for a living..they have more kids,,that is what they do..
They have a used car sales lot,they don`t sale jack, and they have been kicked out of few lots, for what ever reasons,they are always moving around town.
They received from grandpa, a used car sales lot, and a number of properties as grandpa was a real state man for many years and had ample holdings.
So in a few words, they make kids for a living, they have not worked one hard days labor in their live, pampered free loading bunch they are.
Your username suggests you have some kind of giant, log-sized anti-Duggar chip on your shoulder… so I’ll be taking this “information” about their work habits with a hefty grain of salt.
Not for nothin but raising an army this size is brutal work. I don’t support their views but I would not go so far as to call them “pigs” however, as your name implies.
Your username is offensive and I don’t really care for them. What’ your usual un unless you prefer anonymity?
the spin off will not run that long if they get it… 5 years tops.
After that how will they provide for their ever growing family? The eldest will become the caregivers. The mother the breeder. The father will discover more ways to live off of the state. I just can’t with this family. Intentions are good, however misguided and irresponsible.
Good post – this dude looks smug and obviously doesn’t work hard. The only thing is that pigs are intelligent ..the duggars (except for that rebellious cousn and a couple of the oldest daughters who are raising the kids) don’t come across as being intelligent.
I used to defend them. I still do in a sense, I guess. But they’re idiots. They are just… so stupid. And that has nothing to do with their army of children.
I love that they’re so happy, and seem to really have a good work ethic, close bonds, and polite kids. But they focus so little on a full, rounded education. And you have all these kids, with educations with holes in it because of their parents beliefs. And now you have their kids raising their own (likely to be large) group of kids… and it’s just sad.
There’s a family in my area who has I think 7 kids at this point. I honestly can’t keep track. They’re honestly the sweetest, funniest little kids I’ve ever met. They’re religious, and home school, but the difference is that these kids are smart. They’re not kept away from other kids – they’re super active in 4-H, and other things. These kids are more adjusted and socialized than any of the Duggars. And I think, if the Duggars had done more like this family had, and sheltered to a degree but allowed the kids to associate in the real world maybe I’d feel happier for them. The Duggars just seem like… a cult to me now. And the family I know is nothing like that.
Exactly. What do they contribute to world besides more uneducated people?
Yet people are only disgusted with Octomom!
Yes, there is something very disturbing in how the kids are sheltered and hidden from the “real world”. What really makes me sad is all of the girls. Their education is stunted (when it comes to home schooling, I really think there is only so much a parent can do at a certain point. Are JimBob and Michelle really teaching them advanced math or discussing topics like globalization and feminism with them?). I’ve seen the show a few times before. I recall one episode (or maybe a special on them?) where several of the girls were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up and they all said they wanted to be mothers with as many children as possible like their mom. I have nothing against being a mother if that is what you want to be, but hell! None of these girls talked about furthering their education and/or working! None of them said anything about a career or traveling the world and experiencing life on their own. It made me sad for them. They just seemed so brainwashed and controlled.
Exactlyyyy.
And I know they don’t teach them anything to do with evolution and whatnot. And I sort of get that because it’s part of their belief system. But they should teach them at least the basis of the idea. If they only believe in creation, then teach them what evolutionists think, and accept that the theory exists. Study it, pick it apart to give these poor kids a chance at education outside of homeschooling.
I was going to be a teacher. I dropped out of my bachelor of arts program to pursue a career in the technology field. I personally wouldn’t even attempt to home school my kids, because while I’m efficient with English, Social Studies, History, etc I’m awful with things like Chemistry and Math. I’d be doing them a huge disservice.
They’ve said they “dont believe” in algebra so they aren’t even teaching higher level math. So I doubt they are teaching about evolution as other than, god created the world, and some people don’t believe that.
@ Erinn
Wowwww….when I was homeschooled, we used a Christian curriculm for school. The biology book, basically the only difference between it and a regular textbook was that it had bible verses in it. They taught you in depth about the theory of evolution, and explained why they didn’t agree with it.
I know that Christianity has its problems in different sects, but God I do not like them representing it. They’re freaking crazy.
I think their whole outlook regarding kids is so irresponsible.
I from Northwest Arkansas like the Duggars (I live in Seattle now). Even the natives find them a little extreme, a little odd.
I’m not from that area but I am in AR and yes, we do too.
I’ll never understand the fascination with these people. They have sex and reproduce. Wow, pretty much every human on the planet can achieve this. Get over yourselves
I know I’ve spent the last 10 years trying to ensure I WON’T have 20 kids.
what, really? nah, I’m not surprised at all.. I get that it’s part of their religion but it makes me sad to think that the women think this is all their life is for, and they breed their daughters to feel the same way.
Yeah exactly…I mean, I just can’t get all outraged over it in the sense that I don’t think their kids are living in squalor or an overtly abusive household and at the end of the day, how these people choose to raise their kids doesn’t really affect me. It’s their choice and they are free to pursue that lifestyle.
Still, if I’m giving my personal opinion on the matter, I’m not convinced that their parental technique is necessarily the best way to prepare their children for modern-day society…And the kids taking care of kids thing? I don’t know…I just think kids should be free to be KIDS not indentured servants or nannies.
I agree. I mean there’s helping take care of your siblings (which I do-now that I’m older I watch them after school, sometimes make dinner) and there’s raising your siblings, which obviously the Duggar’s do. I don’t know about you, but my mom never made me in charge of a baby constantly. I never had to sleep with a baby and take care of its needs in the middle of the night. The most I’ve ever had to do is change my nephews diapers while his mom was at work.
I’m not against having large families, I have four siblings myself. But when you need to scheduale time in to see your kids on a regular basis, and you can’t/won’t take care of your own babies then that’s enough.
I have a hard time with this issue of staying at home and making babies myself because of my dad/stepdad. He’s religious (aren’t they all??), while I have religious beliefs I’m not into that whole staying at home and making babies and that’s it. The thing with my dad is he tells me all the time that I’m so smart and that I’ll do really well in college and everything else, but then believes that women should be stay at home moms.
He doesn’t think that women should be barred from working at any time, but he thinks women are best suited to raising kids, dealing with everything in the home, having a job that won’t take you from home. One woman from my church sells diet/metabolism boosting pills, sell stuff at consainment shops, etc. I’m asking him what’s the difference, and he said something like it’s because she “has no other master” i.e. boss. As you can tell, my dad frustrates me most of the time…as well as my mom.
So I just don’t get what his deal is. Because he’s not some raging misogynist who thinks women are only good for a few things, but believes that a woman’s main priority should be with her family. Just don’t get it. Because unlike those Duggar fools, I go to school (though I was homeschooled for two years), and he’s encouraging me to go to college.
Rant ovahhhh/
I’m sorry but how does Michelle remember all 19 names? I have like 15 cousins from my dad’s side and I can barely remember their names.
Maybe that’s why they all have J names? She can just say “j….” until she remembers the kid’s name.
I was thinking this morning about remembering their birthdays. But then again I bet they probably don’t celebrate them.
I wonder how much Michelle Duggar can really parent all 19 kids. I know that the older girls take care of the younger children.
The next time someone says something about me having an SUV is “killing the environment” I will remind them about these people. All of the extra humans they are producing is more of a drain on the Earth than my Pathfinder. Water, sewage, garbage, energy use…
Amen. I’m vegan and childfree. My one “guilty” indulgence is my vehicle and I’m happy to toss out these tossers as an example of people who are doing WAY more damage to the planet than me.
The 3-year old looks surprisingly stylish. That won’t last long.
Ugh, that was my first thought too. I have nothing against covering your bits and pieces, but looking at the mother with a tanktop up to her collarbone to cover I guess her upper chest where the shirt on top isn’t covering just looks silly. There wouldn’t even have been cleavage showing.
I wonder if the little girl has straight hair if they’re going to eventually curl the crap out of it. All the Duggars hair looks so over worked.
Her outfit is very cute and stylish. You’re right though, full length denim skirts are not far off in the future for her.
It seems the radical procreation is less about Godliness at this point and more about a sweet check from TLC.
This. I live in a religious community where people often have large families, but all of them send their kids to good schools, encourage them to have actual jobs and lives, and none of them would ever dream of appearing on a reality show. Blech. Famewhoring your family out — it’s bad whether it’s done by a Kardashian or a Duggar.
Dear god this family… I just hope Anna stops before reaching 10 babies..or 5. JUst let Michelle have the best record, don’t care about it Anna.. sigh, I know it’s not going to happen anyway.
Anna has a 30 year old sister with 9 kids.
Goodness is that their front porch? Josh better get to painting.
LOL Good eye 🙂
Yeah, they love their kids. With so many, do ANY of them get quality time with mom and dad? Do they get paid for each kid? Selfish selfish people.
I’m sorry I can’t with these people. They turn their wives into baby machines, and they wind up spending most of their fertile years being pregnant. There’s a major creep factor going on here to me. Very cute kids yes, all well dressed and well mannered yes but I can’t help but feel sorry for the daughter-in-law (all females in this family really). Will she be pumping out 20 or more kids too? Being pregnant isn’t easy, and to be perpetually in that sate…….no.
See, I have no sympathy for the daughter in law. She knew exactly what she was getting in to. I feel worse for the actual daughters who were raised to be the same as their mother. The other girl had a chance to avoid this family, the daughters didn’t
The daughter in law also comes from a super religious family.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithgoespop/2012/08/meet-the-kellers-the-duggars-in-laws/
@Beeskness
I have some hope with that family. At least some of the kids in that one seem to have a relatively more normal life. I have no problem with being very religious, as long as it isn’t forcing the girls to be so darned submissive.
This is triublesome to me, some people need ZERO children – even one is too many as they don;t taek care of them. We see shining examples of this in this very blog.
These people do take care of their chidlren and the children seem happy. Normally I’d say “So What, let them be”
It’s the degradation and forced servitude of the women I sense right below the surface that gives me the creeps. What if one of those girls didn;t want to get married and push them out, out, out????? I think she’d be shamed and put down.
Shrug. I mean, I don’t really get the outrage about this family. If they can afford to raise and love this many kids — and it seems they can, the kids aren’t hungry or unwanted — I’m inclined to just live and let live.
There are so many kids in the world who aren’t loved or cared for or wanted, and I have a much bigger moral problem with the parents of those children than parents who have what some may deem to be “too many” children.
I suspect a lot of the venom directed at the Duggars (masked as “concern for the environment,” or whatever, which: listen, the Duggars are not going to take your water supply, and the reproductive rates of the First World are actually plummeting) is really just barely-veiled disdain for their religious beliefs.
If this woman wants to have a bunch of children, I’m not going to judge her childbearing choices.
I’ve watched a few of their early shows. My issue is that the kids are burdened with the parenting. Mom and dad keep having babies, then the kids raise them. How is that fair?
I think that’s a fair criticism, if you think the way they raise their children is overly burdensome on the older kids — I don’t fully agree with that assessment, but we may have different ideals regarding raising kids and it’s a very subjective subject.
ita, and those poor older girls are still overburdened with all of the housekeeping and childrearing instead of getting jobs or educations or their own lives.
if michelle and her creepy husband had a whole litter of children AND raised them with their own two hands, that is a different story
My issue is that the girls are raised to be subservient to men. They are not raised to be anything other than mothers and wives. Their education is lacking, due to the religion, and they are expected to take care of all the kids while the mother is bust popping out more.
Michelle said about her hair “Discover and conform to your husband’s real wishes; explain your hairstyle to others on the basis of your submission to your authority; separate your “rights” from your responsibilities.”
She’s raising these girls to believe that it’s their responsibility to be so submissive over even their hair styles for goodness sakes. It’s not a healthy attitude. If she was all about empowering her daughters, I’d say it’s a great family. But it’s not.
And I saw an episode where one of the really little kids heard music and was dancing and everyone freaked out over it. It’s a sad life.
+ a billion!!!!
The hair thing is weird, and I wouldn’t do it, but it seems to be tied to their religious beliefs — and I feel the same way about that as I do about women who chose to wear a hijab (as one of my friends does) — as long as the woman is going into it clear-eyed and chooses this path for herself, if that’s how she wants her marriage to work, I don’t have a problem with it.
You could argue that the environment for the non-adult girls is a bit too restrictive (I mean, I wouldn’t raise my girls that way, if I had daughter), but absent abuse or neglect I think a lot of the Duggar hatred is really extreme.
I feel so bad for the women – especially a young woman like Anna. The human female body is just not designed to bear so many children so quickly. my doctor told me repeatedly that the best way to birth is to space your kids out. The current recommendation is a MINIMUM of 2 years between births, and they prefer more. She’s 6 months along now, and her youngest is under 2. So she’ll come in right under the recommendation. If she keeps going this way, her body is gonna reap some serious consequences. A responsible husband would at some point want his wife to be healthy, and how can he do that if he’s encouraging her to push her body over and and over again?
Who cares how many children someone has? I’ll never understand that kind of backlash.
It’s not about the number (though one can think it’s ill-advised). There are plenty of families with more than two or three kids – big family isn’t the issue. The issue is that the Duggars believe that those kids can be used basically as voting blocs and a force to sway politics. During the primaries, they traveled around the country stumping and campaigning for Rick Santorum – a guy who is open about his desire to allow conservative Christianity to run the nation (and I say that as a Republican). They believe in reproduction as a means to achieve their political ideas in this country and thus, make the rest of us submit to their ideas. That’s the problem.
That’s not even the worst of it. During the last election, they campaigned for Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin, and they donated $250.00 to Charlie “Rebellious Children Must Be Executed” Fuqua. The only upside is that none of them are well-educated enough to get further than, say, dogcatcher, in politics.
Josh Duggar has also drawn backlash after snarking about “short buses” (disabled transport) on his Instagram account.He keeps showing up at right-wing political events even though he (supposedly) has a business to run.
Lastly, none of these kids go to college or trade school or hold real jobs. They’re going to be screwed if they reach their 60s without having had real jobs. They won’t be able to get Social Security benefits without having paid 10 years or 40 quarters worth of creditable social security and medicare tax.
To be fair I’m not sure any of us will be getting social security the way things are going but the whole family is very creepy. There’s a different between being religious and being a cult. It’s hard to explain but it’s kinda like the different between porn and art, hard to put into words, but everyone knows the difference.
I care. I care a lot. As much as a love babies, we are stopping at two. Replacement. We have no right to overwhelm this planet with excessive parasites. And I owe my children my time and attention. I owe them the same level of resources and education that I received. I can only do that with two, three tops.
There’s a lot of evidence that the world is not in fact overpopulated per se. The problem is an unequal consumption of resources and over-concentration of resources in the First World. Overpopulation is an issue insorfar as women are suffering because they do not have the resources to plan their own families, but statistically, the idea that there’s just too many of us is largely untrue.
@Sam
But that’s what Fabgrrrl was saying. These children are all being raised in America, a first world country, so they are going to be a much larger strain on the earth resources than someone born elsewhere. Also, yes, there’s ROOM for more people, but overpopulation and resource strain go hand in hand. Just because there’s room it doesn’t mean the world isn’t overpopulated. That all depends on if we are producing enough resources sustainably to keep that population level. Well, we aren’t. So she is making a good point.
Zoid: The problem with talking about sustainability is that it assumes the status quo will remain. It’s all well and good to talk about limiting people, but that’s a cop-out to not talk about changing the status quo. If resources could be distributed equally, the current world population is most likely sustainable. The problem is that everybody pays lip service to reducing the population but nobody in the First world wants to actually give up any of their resources. I have no clue about the Duggars’ actual resource consumption – though if they live a standard American life, its safe to say they’re over-consumers. However, the solution isn’t to say “less people” it’s saying “we need to consume less, period.”
@Sam
I completely agree with you. However, considering that I don’t really see the Duggars championing a sustainable life, (they have hand me down clothing but that’s all I’m aware of) I have a hard time not grinding my teeth a little over it. I don’t have much faith in people changing their ways until some aspects of our lives are ruined permanently.
This.
I would have a ton more respect for the Duggars if they had fostered and adopted some children.
the duggars with their small army of children will soon take over the world until everyone is part duggar.
If these two stopped right now, it would be fine. Three kids by 24/25 is a bit unusal, but not remarkable. A nice, sustainable family unit. Please stop.
I wonder what they’d do if they had a severely disabled child? Would they continue having more babies afterwards? I can’t imagine trying to look after toddlers, a disabled child AND then have more newborns on top of that! But they don’t believe in birth control, so I guess they’d keep having kids no matter what. Money doesn’t seem to be an issue, maybe because of TLC but they just won’t seem to consider if they can afford another child, and I don’t just mean financially. Kids take energy and time and each one deserve that and a mom only has so much time and energy she can give in one day. I don’t know. And I won’t even get into the lack of a real education and real choices…
I never thought of that. Perhaps if the child was so disabled that he/she needed 24/7 care, they wouldn’t be having sex nearly as much, if at all, so perhaps they would stop having more kids.
Big families can be great, but at some point enough is enough. What if all 19 Duggar kids have 19 kids each? After a few generations the Duggars will be able to populate a small country of their own.
That’s what the people who say “So what, they can afford it” don’t take into account. It’s more than the Duggars’ ability to afford their 19. What about society’s ability to afford the DESCENDANTS of the original 19?
Again, I don’t think this is about “society affording” their descendents. (Are we assuming they’ll all require state-subsidized social services, or…?)
The Duggars will not cut off your water supply. It seems to be much more about people finding their beliefs repellant, which is fair, if that’s the case, but at least be open about what your problem with them is. Don’t veil your dislike of their beliefs/politics behind some ridiculous argument that someday “society” will be burdened with their descendents or that this family having a bunch of kids will affect you in any concrete, immediate way in terms of overpopulation.
That doesn’t make sense.
I’ve heard this argument before, and I think it’s a GIANT assumption/reach to start saying “Well, what if they ALL had 20 kids? What then?” There’s no reason to believe that will happen, or that each child will grow into an exact carbon copy of their parents. Statistically speaking, at least one of them is probably gay.
Yeah, but considering that they are raised super conservative Christian, that gay child probably wouldn’t want to come out, would they? Are the Duggars pro gay rights (if so I missed it and I applaud them for that at least). I have no problem with their choices, I have a problem with their daughters being raised to think they are worth less than a man. I was raised Christian too so please don’t try to say this is me making veiled insults at their beliefs. Their oppressive behavior towards the female sex has no place in religion IMO, and is very extreme (the average Christian I know certainly wouldn’t consider her hair style the mans choice to change).
I’ve often thought that one of them must be as well (statistically), and I feel very, very sorry for the gay one.
I also find their beliefs repellant, as you say, which is my main problem. I don’t want their stupid beliefs spreading at the rate of 19 per because I think it’s harmful to society.
Sweet Dee, fair enough – I find their extremism alarming too and I agree with you (I’m a Christian, but I’m about as liberal as they come, politically speaking). That is at least an honest argument.
They need to get that child army to sand their porch.
It seems that they only have sex to get pregnant. To just use each other for production. There is nothing sexy about that.
Why is it the same people who would defend a woman’s right to choose feel free to rip this family to shreds for choosing differently than they would? I always find that curious.
Well put.
Because Michelle certainly is not free. Look up her quotes about how she only is ‘allowed’ to keep her hair how Jim Bob wants it. They aren’t a family they are Jim Bob and Co.
It is her choice to play a subservient role to her husband. Once again, not a choice I would make but she gets to make her own and she seems quite happy with it. Women get this sort of backlash all the time if they don’t use their freedom in the way that others would want them to. It’s a real hypocrisy that women subject each other to.
But it won’t be their daughters choice. That’s my problem with it. I don’t care about Michelle. Give the kids all their options beyond telling them ‘you need to be a mommy, and it’s all you’re good for.’ If they want to be mommies, fine. But they aren’t even being shown that they, as women, are good for other things too. This isn’t about me judging Michelle for her choice and please don’t try to twist my words that way. It’s about her teaching her little girls that that is the ‘only’ life they should lead.
Well, but eventually it will be their daughters’ choice, when they become adults. They don’t have to marry a man who thinks like that. It doesn’t appear that they are being abused or neglected — just taught to fill a subservient role. I totally disagree with that and wouldn’t raise my daughters that way, but it’s a natural extension of their religious freedom to teach their children the central tenets of their beliefs, and it’s only logical that they would do that, however much you may disagree with those tenets.
Im not bashing a woman’s right to choice. I defend the right to choice with my last breath. With that, I’m a big believer that the children we bring into the world, deserves the parents love, nurturing, attention. It is the parents responsibility to parent their child. If they did all those things, then I would be cool. But they don’t.
How much of a choice is it when you’re practically brainwashed?
Not to mention the gaping holes in their education.
I don’t care how many kids they decide to have. But it should be illegal to keep the kids out of the schooling system where the Duggar girls could learn that you can choose to have a life that goes beyond serving and obeying your man, and popping out kids.
That pesky Constitution gets in the way again.
I find this kind of sad, simply because I have a friend who’s been trying to get pregnant for four years.
Somebody needs to tell them that it is a sin to be so obviously horny. SMH
These people are f’ing disgusting, popping out children like it’s a litter of puppies. Nasty breeders.
I find their beliefs and their rampant breeding disgusting, and cruel how they will not speak to defectors just like the CO$. I think it’s intolerable the way they brainwash their children and use their women as baby dispensers which is really harmful IMO. As a whole, they are unintelligent and willfully ignorant, and they make me really, really sad that they exist.
That said, they would probably same many of the same things about me, and I wouldn’t be offended by that. The world will never be the place they want it to be either, which is my only consolation.
These people give me the creeps. There is absolutely no reason to have that many children. Three is certainly enough. Unfortunately, we all know they will not stop there.
I’m sure they are nice people. But I don’t agree with their religious beliefs and having so many children. It’s not good for the environment, and I don’t like how this religion preaches that women are to be submissive to men. Very regressive and chauvinistic if you ask me. I would never want to live like that. But to each their own.
The thing is the Duggar’s aren’t quote on quote Christian. I can tell you one thing, my church is pretty conservative. But you don’t get taught crap like the husband dictating the wife’s hairstyle, or making the older girls raise the kids. Despite all my complaints (which are numerous), my pastor’s kids, all the girls, have a choice if they want to go to college or not. His youngest daughter is going to a christian school in florida, with a degree in criminal justice.
The duggars follow this religion called Quiverfull. Google it. It’s one of the most screwed up things I’ve ever read. I mean Christianity, all religions have issues w/ the public, but quiverfull takes the cake. Michelle acts like Jim Bob’s whipping dog because of that sect. Look up a website Called “No longer quivering”, it’s stories about former members of cults, mostly quiverful. The way they treat women is disgusting.
Yes, I’ve heard about that religion/cult before. Very troubling to say the least.
Hey, thanks for the tip, I went and researched it and the lady’s blog (No Longer Quivering) is very informative…if alarming. I have always found cults fascinating so this was an interesting spin on it for me.
Hm. I did check out that site last year and it’s definitely a time-suck on par with STFU Parents. However, unlike STFU, I didn’t laugh, I just felt kind of sad. All power to any woman who decides ‘I’m better than this’ and manages to built a new life under alien circumstances–regardless of the specifics about what/why she leaves. I mean, we all have our problems–mine is lifelong health issues that are pretty serious and need monitoring–but it’s not like I have to bust out of the compound to see my GP or psychiatrist.
You know why I’m grateful? It’s because I’ve never used hairspray in my life.
And Hilary Mantel thinks Duchess Kate is supposed to be a breeding machine?
(Mantel is of course right, but this comment is just for comparison’s sake.)
I don’t know. Where I come from it was the norm (30-40 years ago). There are lots of very large, French Catholic families living in this area. I am an only child but lots of families had 12-15 kids (in fact my husbands mother is the oldest of 14). I just don’t see why everyone is so judgy. This happens in other situations, it’s just that these people are on TV. If we’re supposed to be so tolerant and understanding of everyone’s lifestyles, I don’t get why it doesn’t apply to them, too.
And for the record, I have 2 kids and I’m done. But that’s ME.
1. They have both put on a lot of weight since I last watched the show.
2. Holy popcorn vag! Get those toddlers a broom and a paintbrush. That porch needs some serious maintenance.
I know this has nothing to do with this but everyrime I think of this family and how they saud abortion is the same as the holocaust. I remember being so upset that they described a horrible time in history to a womens right to choose. Its completely disrespectful that they would consider the two the same
If you value every single life, then the death of one is not somehow less horrifying than the death of millions. They wouldn’t see it as disrespectful, they would see it as being consistent.
…and if you go by their rules, a baby dies inside of you every time you have your period. So, get to mourning.
HA! That one’s going into my brain archives.
I would have loved to have 6 or 7 kids- nature had different ideas. I think the family is well adjusted, the kids are mannerly, they don’t seem to want for anything. My only issue is the girls seem to be raised as brood mares, also, I think Michelle needs to quit so she can live to raise the kids she has. Much prefer this to Kardashians or even Kate+8. Seems like lots of love in this family- lots of actual parenting- love that they all do chores- the forgotten art of parenting!
I don’t believe these kids are being raised properly. I’ve seen a few of their shows as Michelle’s quallude voice is riveting. Each daughter is assigned a younger child to raise. Mom and Dad don’t do it–the kids are raising each other. The older girls also home school the younger kids. Thus, you have under-educated children teaching younger children. None of these ‘teachers’ could ever get a teaching credential. The girls are also responsible for all the housework–not the boys, just the girls. Same as a Disney child actor these kids are not having a childhood. They have the responsibilities of adults and that is not healthy.
Oh, and the Duggar men will pick the husbands for these girls. Probably none have been married off yet because they can’t afford to lose any hired help.
Damn, but Anna resembles Michelle!
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Not that anyone is obligated to do it, but there are a lot of children out there just aching to be adopted, so why not bring some into the loving fold?
Oh.
I’m okay with this insane reproductive madness if only because I’m going to seriously relish when the majority of their children begin to leave their father’s church (both quietly and loudly). At least one of their daughters is going to receive a fine science/biology based education and another will become an ardent atheist. And when their gay children step forward, they will have nurtured and loved their siblings in such a parental capacity that even their biological parents will be forced to accept them lest the family schism.
There are not enough people with congruent beliefs to marry off all these sons and daughters to. And human nature has too great a capacity for curiosity for even the likes of JimBob to extinguish.
Wait to all those Duggar girls get married and start popping out kids in the next few years
If there were an “all-powerful” God, I firmly believe it would prevent people like these from overproducing. I mean, why go through the trouble of creating this amazing Earth just to have it massacred by baby-obsessed humans?
Duggars Do Asia: Worst p0rn EVER.
I feel bad for the kids, especially the girls, being raised that this is the only way to live. If that’s what you choose, fine (but if you put it on TV, expect people to respond to it), but growing up in that environment is the opposite of having a choice.
One of the eldest girls is a student midwife, she would have to have a decent education to become a midwife, in Australia it’s a 3 year degree at University so their home schooling can’t be all that bad.
I’m not a home schooling advocate or religious at all but I’m pretty sure even children who are home schooled have to pass exams.
And I think they’ve stopped wearing all the same outfits haven’t they, recently?? I know they always used to wear denim skirts etc but I was under the impression this had changed?
I do hate how Jim Bob is the boss, it’s all a bit creepy for me.
Raise your hand if you are commenting and collecting social assistance. The Duggars are not.
This article makes me really see the “cult” angle of this family
http://jezebel.com/5939635/the-duggars-are-an-evil-cult
They’re a cult. At some point we’ll find out their endgame… and it won’t be pretty.