Duggar Family expecting 18th child!

[Raph's Girl]

Good lord!! When will they stop?!

http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/05/duggar-family.html

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, who became well known after a series of documentary television shows on TLC and Discovery Health, announced this morning on the Today show that they are pregnant with their 18th child. Michelle, 41, is currently six weeks along in her pregnancy and due on New Year's Day. Michelle joked,

"We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us."

Jim Bob added that,

"The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated. Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen."

The new baby will join siblings Joshua, 20, twins John David and Janna, 18, Jill, 16, Jessa, 15, Jinger, 14, Joseph, 13, Josiah, 11, Joy-Anna, 10, twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, 9, Jason 7, James 6, Justin, 5, Jackson, 3, Johannah, 2, and Jennifer, 9 months.

[Machias Banshee]

I remember seeing the show. It used to be so common to have large families, partly because more kids meant more work could be done to keep the family going. Plus Birth Control was considered somewhat immoral until the recent decades. My dad had 10 siblings, and my mom had at least 8..

Just imagine how many Grandkids the parents here will be have the kids grow up... :lol:

[ToTheNines]

How retarded, and all they're names start with a J... it seems like a ****** sitcom.

Having kids is great, but these fu***rs have really gone too far. I mean 5 kids is a heck of alot, I can't imagine how they afford this, or transport the family.

[Sewer Bull]

How retarded, and all they're names start with a J... it seems like a ****** sitcom.

Having kids is great, but these fu***rs have really gone too far. I mean 5 kids is a heck of alot, I can't imagine how they afford this, or transport the family.

Explain once again why it is so ****ed up and retarded.

Having kids over the age of 40 is a bit risky, tho'.

[Ra]

How retarded, and all they're names start with a J... it seems like a ****** sitcom.

Having kids is great, but these fu***rs have really gone too far. I mean 5 kids is a heck of alot, I can't imagine how they afford this, or transport the family.
Ugh...agreed on both points. The "J" names are just odd. And MAN...what they are doing is pretty serious. Even in the past gone by (The Medieval Period and the Victorian Era, for example), 10 is usually the limit. They are really pushing the mother's body to the most extreme, that's for sure.

[Scandia]

How do they take care of so many kids? And I am not just talking financially. Kids need attention and personal time. They cannot all be used to do chores and take care of younger ones.

[Raph's Girl]

How do they take care of so many kids? And I am not just talking financially. Kids need attention and personal time. They cannot all be used to do chores and take care of younger ones.

They're rich. They've got all their finances taken care of. No debts at all. Plus they get paid for their reality show on TLC.

Jim Bob Duggar is a former politician. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. They're real estate agents and own several commercial properties. So they get money from that as well.

One or both parents are always around cuz their office is at their 7000 square foot house. And Im sure the oldest (he's 20) doesn't live with em anymore.

[Jo Dawn]

I say, if the kids are happy and they can provide for their family, then go for it. I saw their shows; they were showed or assumed to be very happy. They have the money and they have the love.

And the 'J' names are fine. First off, I've seen stuff like that alot; even going down the alphabet. And secondly, at least they're not naming them some things that celebrities name their kids, hehe.

[GK Punk]

I'm going to name all of my kids Dave.

Even the girls.

[Sewer Bull]

I thought you'd go for Rob, to honor both RVD and me :(

[GK Punk]

Oooh good call. Their names will now be Rob!

[Peanut]

Is anyone else just depressed that there's a site called www.celebrity-babies.com? I mean, seriously. Get a life.

[GK Punk]

WOW that's pathetic.

[Mecha Cow]

How can they even remember all those names? Damn. Jinger isn't even a name.

Good for them I guess, but it kind of seems like they keep having kids just for the sake of it.

[Raph's Girl]

Is anyone else just depressed that there's a site called www.celebrity-babies.com? I mean, seriously. Get a life.

Hey... That's practically my home page these days! I go there everyday!! :lol:

But seriously... all those kids having a J name isn't unusual. I have TONS of cousins with K names. K and C are like the 2 most popular names in my family. Whenever my aunt Holly is pregnant we're all like "Another K is coming!" :lol:

As for Jinger...it's pronounced Ginger. I've got over 30 cousins and I remember all their names. Most of em have major weird names too.

[Buslady]

18 kids....
...nah I'll keep my comments to myself.

[Hannah]

Whatever, I'm gonna have more.

[Ra]

...um...dare I ask how many you have in mind Hannah?

[Hannah]

If I get knocked up every 10 months starting when I'm 20, I can have, what, 24 kids by the time I'm 40? Sweet.

[Ninjinister]

I have a cousin that has three children. He wanted all C names. So there's Corey, Crystal and... Cyle (pronounced Kyle). Yeah... I still don't get that one.

[Sewer Bull]

If I get knocked up every 10 months starting when I'm 20, I can have, what, 24 kids by the time I'm 40? Sweet.

Plus, the possible twins and triplets!

[Hannah]

Plus, the possible twins and triplets!
Sh*t, yes! Maybe I'll even have like, quadruplets.

[愛]

You start taking that D right now, you can have even more kids by the time you're 40.

[Hannah]

You start taking that D right now, you can have even more kids by the time you're 40.
See, I want my kids to all have the same father, not like the girl down the street who has three brothers that all have different fathers. If I give myself four more years, I'll have found someone to mate with that'll at least be like, tolerable, y'know?

[Jester]

I'm going to name all of my kids Dave.

Even the girls.
You mean like all of George Forman's kids, even the girls, being named George?

[Raph's Girl]

I have a cousin that has three children. He wanted all C names. So there's Corey, Crystal and... Cyle (pronounced Kyle). Yeah... I still don't get that one.

Well Kyle is a form of a gaelic word that starts with a C (Caol) So to me that makes sense. *shrugs*

I have a cousin who named her son Kyler (like Tyler but with a K). Altho Kyler is a real name. It's Dutch for Archer.

[Mecha Cow]

Altho Kyler is a real name. It's Dutch for Archer.
If you must spout pointless trivia at every chance you get, at least make sure it's not bullsh*t.

[Sewer Bull]

You're saying that like you were Dutch yourself, lol.

Out of curiosity, I checked this one over the net (http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Kyler) - Raph's Girl meant Danish, not Dutch.

Petty difference.

[ToTheNines]

You mean like all of George Forman's kids, even the girls, being named George?

Only one of Foreman's is named after him: Georgetta. The other 4 have semi-normal names if I remember correctly.

[Mecha Cow]

Petty difference.
Can't argue with that. :(

[Jester]

Only one of Foreman's is named after him: Georgetta. The other 4 have semi-normal names if I remember correctly.
Really? Maybe it is a myth, but I heard he did it because he didn't know his own father and so his kids would know who their daddy was, he named them all George.

[CudleyCowlick]

Un-freakin-believable. I don't even want to have 1 kid, but 18??? A few of my good friends come from a family of 13 kids. That's the most I had ever heard of until now. Insane.

[ToTheNines]

Really? Maybe it is a myth, but I heard he did it because he didn't know his own father and so his kids would know who their daddy was, he named them all George.

My bad, I meant of his five GIRLS only one is George(tta). But yes his 5 boys are all named George, but they all have nick names I think.

[Raph's Girl]

Un-freakin-believable. I don't even want to have 1 kid, but 18??? A few of my good friends come from a family of 13 kids. That's the most I had ever heard of until now. Insane.

I've got a friend who's the middle child of 20 and she wants that many kids too. Insanity.

I knew this family in Germany. When I met em the parents had been married for 12 years and they had 12 kids (1 set of twins)... Last I heard they were up to 16...that was 15 years ago.

[Spitfire]

Go Jim Bob, seriously Jim Bob? On the picture it says "One big happy family" One big bankrupt family. I don't know what Jim Bob does for a living but I doubt he's a lawyer. I feel bad for those kids. Their all going to be uneducated working retail jobs in a family that huge, unless their parents want to co-sign on 18 college loans. Sounds like to me that making kids is more like a game to them now...great.

And when our time on Earth passes whatever lives here after we do will look back and go, "They were destroyed by over population because they played breeding games."

[ToTheNines]

And when our time on Earth passes whatever lives here after we do will look back and go, "They were destroyed by over population because they played breeding games."

Yeah, that's one of the points I forgot to bring up. Were getting to the point that people need to start having LESS kids, I used to want atleast 2, but now I'm thinkin 1. Plus can you really love 18 kids they way a child need to be loved? I would hate the little sh**s, imagine trying to go out for a nice dinner at The Outback... not happening.

[Warhorse]

Go Jim Bob, seriously Jim Bob? On the picture it says "One big happy family" One big bankrupt family. I don't know what Jim Bob does for a living but I doubt he's a lawyer. I feel bad for those kids. Their all going to be uneducated working retail jobs in a family that huge, unless their parents want to co-sign on 18 college loans. Sounds like to me that making kids is more like a game to them now...great.



Raph's Girl had already posted on how the family make's it's living and how they are in no threat to be facing any financial depressions anytime soon.

They're rich. They've got all their finances taken care of. No debts at all. Plus they get paid for their reality show on TLC.

Jim Bob Duggar is a former politician. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. They're real estate agents and own several commercial properties. So they get money from that as well.

One or both parents are always around cuz their office is at their 7000 square foot house. And Im sure the oldest (he's 20) doesn't live with em anymore.

Not that I condone such actions. And can you imagine the family fued that will spew when inheritance is an issue!

[Sage Ninja]

I gonna have to agree with tothenines. It really seems because these people are in the spotlight they are having alot of kids as like a gimmick or something, or at least for the shock value of "holy crap they have 18 f*ckin kids!? Day-um!"

But if they are not doing it for a gimmick than God bless them and I wish them the best with their happy large family. But some how I wonder if they would have that many kids if they wheren't on TV. :ohwell:

[Raph's Girl]

But some how I wonder if they would have that many kids if they wheren't on TV. :ohwell:

The reason they're on tv is cuz when kid 16 was born it was all over the news. Everyone was like "OMG! They've got a gazillion kids!"...shock factor made them famous.

[Aelia]

Don't these people believe in birth control!? :lol:

[ThirdMarioBro]

Is anyone else just depressed that there's a site called www.celebrity-babies.com? I mean, seriously. Get a life.

God, just kill me now.

[Raph's Girl]

Don't these people believe in birth control!? :lol:

Actually during their first couple years of marriage they did use birth control. They also used it after their first was born, but when she got pregnant again while using it and lost the baby they believed it was the birth control that did it. So they stopped using it cuz of that and their religion.

[Aelia]

Actually during their first couple years of marriage they did use birth control. They also used it after their first was born, but when she got pregnant again while using it and lost the baby they believed it was the birth control that did it. So they stopped using it cuz of that and their religion.

There are always those risks when you are taking birth control. I suppose the pills she was taking were highly ineffectual if she got pregnant while using them. But thanks for educating me on the subject, and really I respect them for not using birth control. However...eighteen kids is really just too much.