Duggar family welcomes 18th child
 

http://www.people.com/people/article...247340,00.html

and

http://www.people.com/people/article...248075,00.html

These people have to be the main reason for the population boom. Gonna be interesting if Joshua keeps up the J theme.... :dead:

lol Jedidiah.

Wow... I didn't know procreation could be a hobby.

U think a name from the bible is funny??? It's from the old testament. Another name for King Solomon.

I just think the Bible is funny in general.

Yes, I know that. You don't need to sh*t any more of your useless facts at me.

Thank you.

Wait, wasn't this exact same news posted like a couple of months ago?

That's what I thought but it was probably their 17th child. These guys should try and get another hobby.

Why would you do this? They can't function like a normal family. Imagine them going to the movies or out to dinner.

Dosen't matter tho, with that many kids one of them has to be homocidal... so expect less than 18 here in a little while.

HEY! my parents were 17 and 19 too.........They didn't want kids........oops.

Damn.....she's spent most of her adult life pregnant.

That's the irony of life right there!

Once you have a certain number of kids, you aren't gonna notice a few more. Don't know if that theory works for THIS many, but maybe. I'll ask my one friend if she works her way up that high. She's had 4 kids in 4 years; one every August except this past August. I guess she gave her husband something else for his birthday in November! ;)

So her husband gets laid only once a year, for his birthday?

Wow, what a woman.

I couldn't tell you that. My friends' sex lives is not something I would like minute details of. However, I think you're jumping to conclusions. She happened to get pregnant at the same time every year. That doesn't mean they only got jiggy on an annual basis.

Perhaps, yet I enjoyed the thought they did.

Um..ok?

*signals waiter*

Check please!

Wait, you're already going?

I thought we've just started... :cry:

why do they say a baby is a gift from god when, no, it's the result of one night of nookie?
these people are rediculous, how do they support all those kids? I mean, if he's gotta extremely well paying job and they're comfortable and all that...great but dayum! that's nuts.

one is enough for me.

They support the kids several ways:
Jim Bob's a politician (he was Arkansas state legislature from 1999 - 2002)
They're both real estate agents
They own several commercial properties
Money from their reality show (which the title changes every year it seems)
Jim Bob does seminars on how to live debt free (and this works for them. They live completly debt free...and built their 5000 sq ft house that way)

But the main reason they have so many kids is cuz they believe in the Quiverfull movement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

I'd lol if she died during child birth!

For sure in the future she might have kids younger than her grand-children.

And who takes care of all those kids?
 

And who takes care of all those kids? Do they have employed some live-in nanny girl to do it or what?

I'm sure the older kids look after the younger ones.

It's probably alot like Lord of the Flies...

Mmm... flies...

I seriously can't believe that someone would give birth to 18 kids that... well, willingly. I'm positive that part of this is all "why hello thar world record for most kids", but that's just me. They could be loving and caring parents that love their kids for all I know.

But seriously. 18...

... 18 ...

*head explodes*

Because there aren't 18 starving children in a third world country somewhere under the constant stress of the next attack by machete wielding freedom fighters that could use a home or anything...

Yeah good point. But I'm talking about in a Western Suburban situation (should have made that clear from the start...)

I was replying to the topic in general. I honestly find it sickening that some US citizens find it necessary to play breeding games when were in a state of economic crisis. There are thousands of homeless children out there and these assholes want to reinforce that the US is still somehow the richest country in the world even though we can't even figure out what the hell to do about our own money problems. And what's a better way to do that then by having 10 kids and either having enough money to pay for them, which is a waste when that same money could be donated to children who need it and not spoiling them, or taking it from hard working middle classer's who pay for it in taxes when you go on welfare.

If it's a person's choice to have kids or not, or to have only one child, then it's certainly his/her choice to have 18 kids. You can't have it only one way, it's not fair. Not that I'm advocating popping out zillions of babies and living on welfare, but that's not what this family is doing, is it? There are other large families who can make ends meet without relying on government aid, too. I grew up with 6 younger siblings. Not on quite the same scale as this family, but we did just fine. We weren't rich, mind you, but I had all that I needed and then some.

What I think is ridiculous is a couple who are having trouble conceiving so they spend tens of thousands of dollars on fertility treatments when there are kids in need of homes in this country and in others. But, that's their choice and they have the right to do so.

Do you know what it takes to adopt a child? I recently talked to a woman who works part time for an adoption agency that adopts out of eastern Europe. Even with their comparatively easy system, it takes a year or two and $40,000. Not everyone can afford that.

These people obviously can.

You ever heard of China? They have it the best way, two kids tops. Welcome to population control, something this overpopulated cesspool could use.

Um 40 grand I think not. I recently watched a movie about adoption. The main issue I see with it is they make it insanely difficult for gay couples to adopt child and put them through more background tests then anyone else. The doc featured several middle class workers, some single, who adopted kids so no it doesn't cost 40 grand.

Maybe if you want a Eastern European child but there's plenty of homeless here we don't need to import our homeless children. If we did we should be from places like Africa where they're murdered on a daily basis.

The parents take care of the kids. They work from home. Just watch their show on TLC. It's currently called 17 Kids and Counting....but will soon be renamed to 18 kids and Counting.

They also apperantly have a new book out called The Duggars: 20 and Counting

http://www.duggarfamily.com/

I don't think there's anything wrong with having a large family; if people want to have lots of kids (and are able to support them), let them.

However, these people seem to be doing it as some sort of publicity stunt, so f*ck them.

Kindergarten
 

Are the youngest kid in Kindergarten when the parents work or what? I think taking care of 18 kids for yourself is very hard, even if they are in Kindergarten when you work.

people can make all the arguments they want but I think all these assholes are doing is whoring out their kids for profit.

Getting married at age 17 on the 21 century is not a good idea. One should at least have the experience to become a single adult.

Getting pregnant every year thereafter for 18 times in a row is another issue. If they can afford and nurture them correctly, then I don't have a problem with that. But just imagine caring for a baby when you yourself i just a child yourself.

:ohwell:

I think Smile Seta is a pretty cool guy, hse necroposts in the threads and doesn't afraid of anything.

She hasn't gotten pregnant 18 times in a row. There's actually a couple sets of twins and most of the kids are 2 years apart.

And altho they DID get married young they were married for 4 years before the oldest was born.