Is another's worst nightmare!!!
Has anyone seen this family tv show, The Duggars have 17, yes that's SEVENTEEN, children!!!! And the Discovery Health Channel was billing this as a Happy Mother's Day show.
And if I have any friends out there who think this is great but don't have the time, money, and/or health to pull it off... sorry if I offended.
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I LOVE YOU FLYNN!! There is something very creepy about people who think they need to have 18 children (one is on the way). How can a parent give equal time, love, attention and support to a village of children? I'm not saying they don't love them, but I question whether the children are actually getting all they need.
And frankly, what is up with tv shows finding the strangest mutation of family life and trying to pass it off as normative?! Irresponsible!
Many, many families have large numbers of children. I think it is probably not right for most of us, but it is evidently right for them and that is awesome.
I'm pro-choice and that goes both ways for me. We don't condemn those who could be fabulous parents but choose to not have children. The family dynamic is such a fluid continuum.
I would much rather see people like this raising families of children who are loved and well cared for, rather than children having children because of a forced dogma like has happened in TX.
C'est la vie! I hope their life is as happy as they portray.
HAPPY BURDAY-DAY!!!!
all i can think about is, UGH sixteen bouts of morning sickness? no freaking thanks.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope you have a VERY special B-day!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday and Happy Mother's Day, Michelle! Hope it's a great weekend for you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
I understand how these humungo families happened in past generations but my goodness there is no need for it now and it doesn't have to happen. I've seen the show and I know people who have had these large families (# of kids in the teens)in a non-developing country but it just isn't for me.
I don't think anyone, short of Adam and Eve, is called to single handedly populate the world. Even they stopped with 33 sons and 23 daughters! Are the Duggars trying to top that?
Happy Burday Day and Happy Mother's Day Michelle!!!
We watched one of the first specials i think, back when they only had 15 kids and I was in awe..not in a good way. She should be so exhausted by now that having kids would not even be an option. I know they have buddies and the older kids help the younger kids...but hey, maybe they don't want to! And she home schools them...UG. I just found out my cousin is on #9...and everyone in the family is freaking out. They were already on Super Nanny once...does that not tell you to STOP HAVING KIDS?
Interesting: http://www.quiverfull.com/ That is the website for the faith/spiritual group that these folks belong to. It's totally bizarre to me. I'd not heard of them before. The whole religion sounds a bit like a Kool-aid party to me.
I still can't condemn this family. Whatever blows their skirts up. Yet, the religious ideals behind it all smacks of despotic religious zealotry. I cannot imagine feeling like you're singly responsible to create an army for God.
I don't judge anyone's personal choices, but personally, I'm with you, Michelle. I can't imagine having that many kids. And I speak from a certain amount of experience.
My dad is one of 14. He's the second oldest boy (his sister is 14months older). To put this into some sort of context, my dad will be 54 on his next birthday (in September). His youngest brother will be 34 on HIS next birthday (in August), and I will be 31 on my next birthday (in November). And while yes, they love each other and they basically have their own society, it can be very insular and very hard to be an outsider, because their experience of family is so different from anyone else's. Just ask my mom or anyone else who has married into the family.
Even my grandmother, who bore all these children (and did I mention they were all single births? Not a multiple birth among them, and yes, all 14 survive to this day) says there's no way that you can give equal time and attention to all those children, even though you DO feel the same amount of love for each of them. It's impossible to do; there aren't enough hours in the day.
Most of us who are not only children have some experience of "mom loves my brother more" and so forth. How many of us, if asked, can say who our parents' favorites are, even if our parents swear up and down that they have no favorites? Then to have to compete with 17 other people for attention? Yikes.
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