OK, I am just curious about what people think about this: http://www.duggarfamily.com/index.html.
This family is expecting baby #18.
I know it really is none of my business, but I have mixed feelings about this.
On one hand, they seem like a really nice family. The kids seem well behaved and well educated. They all take violin and piano lessons.
The problem I have is that I seriously doubt that the mother, Michelle, is really taking care of all of her kids. I think she is a good person, but being put into a situation where she is raising 17/18 children, she would have to delegate, wouldn't she?
Is she raising these children or is she supervising her oldest daughters while they raise her kids?
The pictures on their website show show just the girls in the laundry room and kitchen.
The girls are always in skirts or dresses.
I know I am being unfair. Like I said before, this is really none of my business. This family made the choice to have all of these children. Without this decision, these kids would not be alive.
With all the girls in long dresses wearing their hair as long as can be, I cannot help but equate it in my mind with all the talk about the polygamist sect in the news of late.
Are these girls free to be themselves? Are they expected to marry and produce as many offspring as their mother? They cannot all like this lifestyle, can they?
It is just hard for me to wrap my mind around having 18 kids. Wow....
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I have often had some of the same thoughts when I used to watch that show about the Duggars that was on cable. I often wonder how any mom can stay that calm all the time. It does remind one of the polygamist groups with the dresses they wear and their hair braided. I almost think more kids would somehow be easier than less because they can take each other and share the work.
I have thought the same thing about the mom. How can she be taking care off all of the children. The older girls are bound to have a LOT put on them, and they are just children themselves.
I see where you are coming from with the long hair and skirts. But my best friend from childhood grew up in a Apostolic Church and they followed the beliefs from the old testament about not adorning ones self. She had long braids and wore skirts until we were in the 7th grade. Her family left their church for awhile and she cut her hair and stopped wearing dresses and skirts all of the time, but her sister and parents joined again and to this day they still follow this practice. (Not my friend) But there is nothing even close to the polygamist groups actions going on in their church. I can see how it could be confused though. :o)
Every time I read about the Duggars, I think about that poor woman's body. She's only 41; when has she NOT been pregnant?
yea i don't know what to think about all this either. i go with the whole live and let live thing and then i see the polygamist thing on TV and think...umm not so much. i mean who is looking out for these kids? i DO think that these are two totally seperate situations though. i am shocked that the mom's uterus hasn't fallen out...i mean wow...that's nutty! they do seem like a pretty happy family and they do work like a well oiled machine. i am pretty sure the kids are happy with their lives, it's not like they know any different...and there is obvious love there...but yep, delegation is most def the key and ya gotta wonder if mom is doing all that she should be doing as the mom.
but seriously i know a lot of mom's with one kid who don't do jack either..
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