18 Kids?

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....