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Lone Drawn Meteor

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Tenzing N. wrote:

I believe they use a system where the older children basically raise the younger children.

And no, I don't agree with their decision to raise so many children.

How many is too many?

arq

Lone Drawn Meteor wrote:

+1

catefrances

haffajappa wrote:

Jason P wrote:

I'm not a parent, so I may be off base with my opinion, but is it not important for a child's development to get a lot of attention from their parents? If you had 18 siblings, there is only so much love and attention that can be dished around.

They got it down, seriously.
After raising the first 3 or 4, those 3 or 4 raise the next 3 or 4, and then that 6 or 8 raise the rest of the kids, and then the parents just keep on fucking, and making the cover of US Weekly.

never has raising children ever fallen solely on the parents. childrens development relies on so many people throughout their lives that to assume a family of 19 kids will somehow be left lacking something is just blindness. hilary clinton was not kidding when she said it takes a village. i doubt the duggar children are going to be wanting from love.

pickupyourwill

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soaks the pages

pickupyourwill wrote:

Why does it piss so many people off. I'll admit that when I saw the mag. headline about their 19th kid, my first reaction was wtf?! But as long as they'r being responsible and providing for them, what business is it of mine? Those who are on welfare and still irresponsibly popping kids out, however, are cutting into the state's money, and therefore some money taken out of my paycheck--so that is my business.

they have a television show and are now willingly posing for magazine covers. first off, if they didn't have the television show providing them with ridiculous (and unmerited) boon, i doubt that they would have the money to feed those children responsibly. secondly, they have a television show for christ sakes... they have made their lives the business of others. they took up a television contract knowing that they are of a subcultural mindset, and probably did so to prove a point: that they obviously consider themselves and their numerous offspring far more godly than those of us in this country who choose to use contraceptives, and, gasp!, have extramarital sex without any intention of procreating. that being said, i think i am allowed to judge the duggars all i want, and i think they're nuts.

TravisTheSky

Snap! I have this pic on an old MySpace page. It got a lot of compliments when I first posted it.

How quaint, the family "only" had 14 kids back then! 5 children and 1 grandchild ago. Tee Hee! I would not be making fun of them if they did not whore out their kids on television. In fact, I have noticed many positive aspects of huge families: Healthier children due to less processed food, drugs, and vaccines. The kids tend to have good social manners, and are literate.
On the negative side, the Duggars had their children so close together that the babies did not benefit from long-term breastfeeding (if any.) A woman's reproduction will shut down for a year and half whilst her body focuses all of its resources on making food for one child. Michelle seems to have thrown this value out the window to instead become pregnant ASAP every time. To me, that is quantity over quality.

Lone Drawn Meteor wrote:

catefrances

TravisTheSky wrote:

Snap! I have this pic on an old MySpace page. It got a lot of compliments when I first posted it.

How quaint, the family "only" had 14 kids back then! 5 children and 1 grandchild ago. Tee Hee! I would not be making fun of them if they did not whore out their kids on television. In fact, I have noticed many positive aspects of huge families: Healthier children due to less processed food, drugs, and vaccines. The kids tend to have good social manners, and are literate.
On the negative side, the Duggars had their children so close together that the babies did not benefit from long-term breastfeeding (if any.) A woman's reproduction will shut down for a year and half whilst her body focuses all of its resources on making food for one child. Michelle seems to have thrown this value out the window to instead become pregnant ASAP every time. To me, that is quantity over quality.

you are aware that once a baby starts a supplimental diet, ie not totally breastfed, and that this can start anywhere from 4/5 months, a woman can start menstruating, which means she can fall pregnant. perhaps michelle duggar follows a feeding routine that millions of women around the world have done and continue to do without detriment to their children.

TravisTheSky

catefrances wrote:

you are aware that once a baby starts a supplimental diet, ie not totally breastfed, and that this can start anywhere from 4/5 months, a woman can start menstruating, which means she can fall pregnant. perhaps michelle duggar follows a feeding routine that millions of women around the world have done and continue to do without detriment to their children.

That sounds like the woman would spend a lot of time being pregnant with the next baby AND still suckling the older one at the same time. Spreading herself too thin.

The mother of one of my sister's little godsons had two kids twelve months apart. When the younger baby was a few months old, the mother BROKE HER LEG walking on soft grass in her backyard. Her bones were depleted.

I have not heard of Mrs. Duggar having such issues.

haffajappa

could you imagine the state of the world if everybody followed the bible's "go forth and multiply"


and anyways, what if everyone has misunderstood... what if it really meant math...
boy would the duggars look dumb...

JaneNY

I'm delighted with my 2 daughters, and they are more than enough for me, but I am not going to point fingers at someone else's choice. There are people who truly believe in not using ANY birth control and letting nature take its course for as long as it will. They're not depending on public assistance. If someone else wants to have a lot of kids, and raises them decently with love, who am I to judge?

catefrances

TravisTheSky wrote:

catefrances wrote:

you are aware that once a baby starts a supplimental diet, ie not totally breastfed, and that this can start anywhere from 4/5 months, a woman can start menstruating, which means she can fall pregnant. perhaps michelle duggar follows a feeding routine that millions of women around the world have done and continue to do without detriment to their children.

That sounds like the woman would spend a lot of time being pregnant with the next baby AND still suckling the older one at the same time. Spreading herself too thin.

The mother of one of my sister's little godsons had two kids twelve months apart. When the younger baby was a few months old, the mother BROKE HER LEG walking on soft grass in her backyard. Her bones were depleted.

I have not heard of Mrs. Duggar having such issues.

and this was because her children were born so close together?? im gonna call bullshit on that. id say there was some underlying factor that contributed to such brittleness.

arthurdent

on the plus side, at least she hasn't turned into Andrea Yates... yet. Who'll snap first, her or the Kate+8 whore?

riffrandall

arthurdent wrote:

on the plus side, at least she hasn't turned into Andrea Yates... yet. Who'll snap first, her or the Kate+8 whore?

Hey! Joking about post partum depression & its really sad consequences is just mean. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
Who's to say that either of these women (Michelle Duggar or Kate Gosselin) haven't suffered from severe depression already? You may not agree with their choices to exploit their families on television, but joking at the expense of 5 dead children is just cruel.

The Duggars are just an oddity, and Americans like to glorify oddities. What I don't get is that the Duggars are really no different than thousands of Mormon families who have that many children or more, yet in the media's eyes, Mormons are freaks & the Duggars are adorable.

soaks the pages

riffrandall wrote:

arthurdent wrote:

on the plus side, at least she hasn't turned into Andrea Yates... yet. Who'll snap first, her or the Kate+8 whore?

Hey! Joking about post partum depression & its really sad consequences is just mean. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
Who's to say that either of these women (Michelle Duggar or Kate Gosselin) haven't suffered from severe depression already? You may not agree with their choices to exploit their families on television, but joking at the expense of 5 dead children is just cruel.

The Duggars are just an oddity, and Americans like to glorify oddities. What I don't get is that the Duggars are really no different than thousands of Mormon families who have that many children or more, yet in the media's eyes, Mormons are freaks & the Duggars are adorable.

i'm inclined to agree with you on the subject of post-partum depression. it is generally not as acknowledged as it should be, as it happens to varying degrees to most, if not all, women who have given birth at some point in their reproductive lives (thanks again to our biological chemicals). now i'm just making assumptions when i say this, but perhaps to a certain extent michelle duggar's way of coping with post-partum depression was to continue having children all in short succession. it's sad, really, when i think about it that way, especially considering that modern medicine and therapy can help women make great strides in dealing with ppd. but i'd better leave it at that, before i go off at a tangent on religious lifestyles.

but i do have to say that if the media's intent is to portray the duggars as adorable, it's definitely not working on all of us :shock:

haffajappa

riffrandall wrote:

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The Duggars are just an oddity, and Americans like to glorify oddities. What I don't get is that the Duggars are really no different than thousands of Mormon families who have that many children or more, yet in the media's eyes, Mormons are freaks & the Duggars are adorable.

this is a good point

Cosmo

I really don't care, either way.
Upside: They got enough kids to field a complete baseball game... with all fields open.
Downside: Poor Mrs. Duggars' genetailia. The downstairs wall-to-wall is probably all gone. Duggars baby 19 will have to be secured in the womb with bungee cords and duct tape.

haffajappa

Cosmo wrote:

I really don't care, either way.
Upside: They got enough kids to field a complete baseball game... with all fields open.
Downside: Poor Mrs. Duggars' genetailia. The downstairs wall-to-wall is probably all gone. Duggars baby 19 will have to be secured in the womb with bungee cords and duct tape.

Actually I think she's trying for 20 now

Cosmo

haffajappa wrote:

Cosmo wrote:

I really don't care, either way.
Upside: They got enough kids to field a complete baseball game... with all fields open.
Downside: Poor Mrs. Duggars' genetailia. The downstairs wall-to-wall is probably all gone. Duggars baby 19 will have to be secured in the womb with bungee cords and duct tape.

Actually I think she's trying for 20 now

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Where's that duct tape?

catefrances

haffajappa wrote:

Cosmo wrote:

I really don't care, either way.
Upside: They got enough kids to field a complete baseball game... with all fields open.
Downside: Poor Mrs. Duggars' genetailia. The downstairs wall-to-wall is probably all gone. Duggars baby 19 will have to be secured in the womb with bungee cords and duct tape.

Actually I think she's trying for 20 now

you mean by having sex??? OMG!! someone stop that woman!