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Duggars 19th Child: Quite A Quiverfull

Posted 29 months ago|17 comments|8,207 views
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celebcrazy
New Orleans, LA
I’m trying not to drink the Hater-ade. I’m really trying.

But tell me, why is the Duggar family’s newest spawn front-page news on Google?

The Duggar family, for those who don’t watch TLC (or have a girlfriend that watches TLC 24/7), are the “stars” of 18 Kids and Counting, a crappy show about a wholesome family of more than 20 people.

Much like Jon Minus Nine, there’s no plot. Even though the Duggars 19th child will be born with 18 older brothers and sisters, I'm sure he or she will be quite special.

Am I the only one who finds it creepy that matriarch Michelle Duggar didn’t even know she was pregnant for a while? She apparently only noticed because she couldn’t lose weight, and had trouble breast-feeding her 8-month-old son. That’s right. At 42, she’s still having kids at a rate of about two every three years.

Yikes.

The Duggar family members are practitioners of the “Quiverfull” movement, which means they reject all forms of birth control.

Quick quote from a Quiverfull website:

“We believe that the Devil deceives Christian couples into using birth control so that children God otherwise willed to create are prevented from being born.”

Hmm. To me, that sounds a little crazy, but we’re all entitled to our own beliefs. I do wish good health on the Duggars 19th child, and I’m glad that the Duggar parents can provide for their family. But why didn’t they just have, say, four kids, and sponsor fifteen kids in Africa?
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29 months ago: That's the kind of madness only the wealthy can have. If the Duggars were poor, I imagine right around the fourth kid, they'd be rethinking birth control. Or sex.
29 months ago: I think they are morons. No one needs that many children no matter how much money they have.

God didn't say anything about covering the Earth with people, the old Star Trek series had an episode about overpopulation, anyone who believes in no birth control needs to watch it.

Reminds me of the dumber than dumb game teenagers play, getting girls pregnant just to say they did in the misguided belief it will make others think they are macho.

A few maternity tests and legal action and those Caddiliacs and gold gewelery will be gone and they will be working just to pay the child support while living at the "Y". That is if they live that long, the drug wars usually wipe out these kinds of morons early.
29 months ago: Why don't they have all the children they want, support them, raise them, and love them, and the rest of the nosy world go to hell?

I like your Africa idea, but I think the Duggars are better able to raise children they've birthed than many African parents are. Maybe we should teach them about condoms, the Pill, and family planning, and leave the Duggars alone.
29 months ago: Are you serious? They probably don't have a pot to p*ss in because of all of the publicity they have this big house. He's into real estate of some kind and she home schools. What kind of income do you think they have to raise all of these kids? They are goldiggers like the other reality people. Enough is enough! Cross your legs and tell him you have a headache and let him go to the bathroom for 1/2 hour!!
SunCelt
SunCelt
Cheney, WA
29 months ago: I think the parents are what we in the veterinary business call "hoarders". They'll keep having children because its an addiction and compulsive. What a shame. They could be putting all that energy into children with no homes or families. Instead they add to the food chain in an irresponsible way.
Common Sense
Common Sense
Falls Church, VA
29 months ago: They're idiots. What if everybody had 19 kids? There'd be no room. I'm not a communist but we need population controls. Look at the world today. I can conserve water, "God Green", & recycle all I want... but if idiots like this are having 19 kids, what difference does it make? Forget about welfare abuse & impoverished idiots in the ghetto listening to rap music & thinking it's OK to procreate with four different women & then go to jail. These are seemingly "normal" caucasions with every benefit society can offer & they make a decision to be extremists & cult followers... What is wrong with these people?!
29 months ago: They are front page news cause they sell this "children are a gift" so far that TLC bought, sold and made money off of them.

These people often depend on those with more to afford to giveaway to provide them with money, supplies what have you in order to provide for all of their children. Another family gone awry...and no one is on Dr. Phil complaining about this family....
Common Sense
Common Sense
Falls Church, VA
29 months ago: All do respect, but you have completely confused & blurred the issue. This rant is about the Duggars, their lunatic Quiverfull movement... And why, for "God's" sake, they're getting front page press.
God is in charge?! I'd like to know what church you go to. God GIVES US A CHOICE! He/she doesn't make the choice for us. As a Christian, I find you people "leaving it all in the hands of God" quite disturbing. God helps those who help themselves, period. What about the murderers, rapists, drug dealers? Is God "in charge" when they commit their crimes? Just because God knows what we're going to do, doesn't mean that he agrees with our decisions. Some of these evangelists are the same people who think that the "mark of Cain" means black people. Lunacy! People take the Bible & interpret it however allows them to do whatever it is they want to do. Then they say that they're just obeying God... I'm wondering where you get your backward information, Sally. The world has room for twice as many people?! Really?! Look at the environmental concerns facing our planet currently...

The fact is, no one should procreate irresponsibly. I hold the Duggars in higher regard than the social cancers out there impregnating 4-5 women anyday... But really, NO ONE needs to have 19 kids.
MISSMOO
MISSMOO
Long Branch, NJ
29 months ago: Why are people being so harsh toward the Duggars? This is a normal couple who still love one another after 25 years. It is their choice, and their right to make that choice, to have as many children as God gives them. This couple conceived and had their children the old-fashioned way: Sexual intercourse followed 9 months later by a baby. No in vitro fertilization, no surrogate mothers and not even adoption. The Duggars can take care of their children without govt. or taxpayer intervention (unlike that pig, the "Octomom," who now is complaining about what she did ... a little late, don't you think, Nadya?). And if they make some of their money by doing a reality TV show, so be it. I'd rather watch the Duggars than Octomom or those whores, the Kardashian girls who, in addition to being sluts are spoiled brats (at least one of the Kardashians, who got pregnant irresponsibly, isn't murdering her baby).
One writer says the Duggars are rich. Well, why not read the couple's book to see how "rich" they were??!!
Maybe no one needs to have 19 children but, so far, it's their right to do so. They'd better do it soon though - if science czar Holdren has his way, abortion will be compulsory and the govt. will tell you - as they do in China - how many children you may have.
Please, people, STOP judging and criticizing the Duggars. They're good people, their children are great and it's a nice family. I'd rather deal with them than, as I said, that creeeeeeeeepy "Octomom."
markbyrn
markbyrn
 Moderator
29 months ago: If the Duggars give you a yikes, how about Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez, AKA Octomom and the fact that she was on public assistance and using in-vitro fertilization to have octuplets plus six children previously. You better be screaming in rage about that if you're worried about the Duggars. At least they appear to be taking care of their own children, and on on their dime.
Common Sense
Common Sense
Falls Church, VA
29 months ago: First off, I agree that the Duggars are light years morally superior to the likes of "Octomom"... For that matter, they're light years ahead of Baby Daddy's who spread their seed indiscriminately with no hopes of supporting their offspring. I realize now that I was too harsh when I called them idiots. They're only doing what they think God wants them to do. However, I feel they've been misled by their church. Just because we're all part of a God's greater plan does not relinquish us of our duty to try to do right, not wrong, & doesn't relinquish us of our responsiblity to society. Look, I get it. As one of seven children, I wouldn't trade any of my siblings for the world... And I love my parents dearly. That said, times are changing. Families don't need 10 kids anymore to work the farm or in case 4 of them died in childbirth. For the church (& the government) to hold families to the same standards as they did 200 years ago is ridiculous. GOD wouldn't want it that way in my opinion... Also, in regards to the biblical referances, I choose not to go have 19 kids in hopes that one solves cancer. When God wants the cure to be found, I'm certain that he'll have PLENTY of kids to choose from to discover it. I see your point Sally, but it's just not valid (IMO). What we should be doing is adopting poor children of irresponsible (or unfortunate) parents, Which I plan to do in the near future...
markbyrn
markbyrn
 Moderator
29 months ago: Common Sense, I agree with you and it's unfortunate that having 18 or more children is based on some kind of 'theological' imperative that might encourage others to do the same even if they don't have the resources to take care of the children or end up abusing/neglecting them. Kind of like the cat lady types who collect & kill lots of cats with kindness.
Absent Minded Housewife
Absent Minded Housewife
West Wendover, NV
29 months ago: As for not knowing about pregnancy...it's not odd for a breastfeeding mother, especially at her age, to not have a period while she nurses. You can get pregnant while nursing, having ovulated once, and never get a period telling you your fertility has returned.

I'm fascinated by the Duggars. They figured if they were going to walk the talk they better find a way to pay for it. No debt at all even before TV. (TV didn't pay for their home at all.) That's much better than what most of American consumers can lay claim to. Most american consumers buy useless **** on TV and then feel like they have some sort of identity.
Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
29 months ago: I am glad that the Duggars apparently don't consume too much and I am certain that they will all grow up to be wonderful people since they by necessity have to learn to get along with others, share, do their share of work etc. Living in a loving family/community is a good environment to raise kids in, but this is madness!
We live in a crowded world (6.8 billion) and the reason we are running out of everything (wilderness, other animals, natural resources, food, water) is that there are too many of us on the earth to live sustainably now. Almost all of the world's problems (war, disease, poverty, famine) are related to overpopulation. Just because a family can afford to have a lot of kids does not mean that they should. One American consumes about 12 times what an average Indian consumes,uses 12 times the natural resources, 12 times the energy, and creates about 12 times the pollution. So having 19 children here is like a person in a third world country having 228 kids!
markbyrn
markbyrn
 Moderator
29 months ago: Altruist,

Where you get your goofy stats from and why not compare to other western countries? If you're worried about world over population, India has 1,147,995,904 people and China 1,330,044,544. We're a far distant third.

What do you suggest to stop this travesty of over-birth? Forced sterilizations, culling, starvation? Maybe we can re-locate this over-consuming family to India where they won't consume as much.
Common Sense
Common Sense
Falls Church, VA
29 months ago: The "solution" is personal responsibility... However, I think we all know that we can't trust our fellow man to do the right thing. Whether it's Octomom, idiots fathering children purposefully with multiple women, or the Duggars, there are just too many people on the planet. If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, cutting back on kids is the best choice you can possibly make. It's simple math. Every one of these 18 kids is gonna want 18 kids of their own. Now do the math. How many Duggars will there be 30 years from now? It's lunacy really. We CANNOT as a society encourage this behavior. Just because you CAN have kids, doesn't meant that you SHOULD have kids. While Americans do consume a lot more energy than the more populous Eastern countries, what's to stop them from immigrating here & consuming what we do? While I don't pretend to have a solution (other than personal responsibility), I can say with all certainty that the continued acceleration of the overpopulation of the earth will lead to tragedy on a number of levels. Where does it end?
26 months ago: THANK YOU! This is certainly about personal responsibility - and not just from these two adults but towards the globe as a whole. The west needs to wake up and realize that NO, WE ARE NOT entitled to have everything we want while the third world rots in poverty and misery. !9 kids in one family works in 2009 but 100 years ago, many of these kids would not have survived due to disease and poor medical care.

I've just spent two days arguing this point about selfish entitlement and overpopulation with a nutbar elsewhere on here who maintains that since the Duggars can afford to bring up 19 children, they are welcome to it! Yup, they're entitled to do anything they want but is it morally right? NOT! And yes..each of these kids will want to have large families of their own .... with ah....home schooling?

And why are the Duggers doing this? Does anyone think it's possible that they have the belief that THEIR children are the righteous of the earth and the more the of them the better? Sorry but while they certainly have the freedom to do whatever they want. I find this morally reprehensible, selfish and naive! They educate their kids at home because they obviously have disdain for the public system where these kids might have a crack at learning about the real world. They take their kids to a so-called "creation musuem" where they're taught that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as people did becuase the Bible tells them so....And where is the freedom to choose for these kids when they grow up? What do they know about the choices they actually might have?

celebcrazy
celebcrazy
New Orleans, LA
25 months ago: Content Removed by celebcrazy

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