Preach it, Dustin.
Good Lord on a go-cart. These people believe that "every child is a miracle" crap. A real miracle is when a hurricane suddenly turns away or a butterfly flaps its little wings, not when your husband forgets to pull out.
Let's pray for this miracle on the Duggars: menopause.
Shesh. If you have more than three kids and get the mothering urge again, adopt a dog. Please!

good god

mike judge must be a fucking prophet or something

idiocracy is nigh!

IDIOCRACY IS NIGH!!

Who wrote this? What are the Duggars to you? The justification for your contrived anger rests on the preposterous idea that 18 people out of 6,000,000,000 somehow statistically affects your share of "natural resources." Anything beyond that is simple taste. Those nasty little breeders don't sit well with you and your heinous, hateful wife. What is it with her (and by extension, you)? Is she barren? A bit of the drybox, Dustin? Are you impotent? Is this little outburst an expression of your veiled resentment?

How hip you are. How kewl. You are the retarded bastard heir of every murderous totalitarian movement in history, only without the balls to live it. Instead you perch yourself on an blog and spew your filth from a safe distance. Pathetic. You pontificate about a family's happiness, and you judge them to be beneath the dictates of your refined sensibilities. And your evidence: simple quantitativeness.

You are an impossible ignoramus. You are a vulgar child playing grown-up. You are a botched abortion. If only your own mother was as selfish as you, we might be spared your gratuitous hatred.

I wrote a similar blog entry today. The only thing I hate more than Cancer is people who think the Duggars are honest and true loving happy folk with so many rainbows and butterflies coming out of their collective asses, how dare any of us question their massive breeding?
I recently sent an email to discovery health. in short, i said that for an educational channel, i'm annoyed they show this duggar crap. the only things i have 'learned' from their TV show of exploited children who raise each other is a) dont move to arkansas, they elect radical christians and b)don't have more children than there are daylight hours.

Aaaand, we're off!

where to begin?

Okay, let's start with the Branson Missouri meets Texas-polygamist-colony haircut. This family must be proof that there is a god, cause only divine will could drive a guy to jump on that after kid # 3 (and i'm being VERY generous here).

Second, I think this is a perfect opportunity to start a "Up" series where the litter is followed throughout their lives. My money is that whichever son whose middle name is "wayne" will stalk and/or shoot a celebrity. But for all I know, they all have the middle name Wayne. even the daughters.

I could go on, but hating on this bunch is like teasing a dog- its just too easy, and after a while, stops being fun.

Wow, Your Mother sucks.

I'd be quick to wager that the vast majority of folks who've heard of these people (which, I mean, how could you NOT have heard of them by now?), view them as freaks and only watch the many, MANY, TLC & Discovery Health shows about them out of sheer morbid curiosity, and not so much because they are such an inspiring example of God's benevolence and charity.

And Mrs. Duggar's hair scares the shit out of me.

Check out their wikipedia page, it's a hoot. They have a lot of attachments and articles too about their Baptist religion, but they believe in the "Quiverfull" movement. Essentially, no birth control because God doesn't want us to use it. If you read the links from some moms who left the movement they talk about the poverty, the depression, and being totally overwhelmed by so many children. This is where post partum depression starts! This woman runs the entire house AND homeschools them! Not to get morbid but look what happened to Andrea Yates :( Some say her and her husband were part of the same movement.

Side note: They didn't want to deliver any children via C-section (some they had to for medical reasons.) Can you imagine how loose this woman's cha-cha is?!

One more comment and I'm done:

If they wanted to follow the "be fruitful and multiply thing", why didn't they adopt some of the thousands of foster children waiting for parents in the United States? I'm sure God loves them too, but I'm guessing they were the wrong skin tone for Southern Baptists.

"You are a botched abortion."

Best insult ever? I think so.

Dustin enjoys making fun of people who breed like opossums, so his wife is infertile and he's a genocidal tyrant in denial. The logic is simple, really.

You know, Mr. Duggar plays no small part in this equation.
Jest sayin'.

Ha ha Summerteeth! It's nice to see someone shares my theory on the name Wayne. No good can ever come of it.

I had never heard of these people before (I have no cable TV, sue me). So when I read the article, my first thought was how much do you suppose Discovery Health pays for each birth?

Secondly, how do you homeschool all these kids of varying ages? If Mrs. Duggar can satisfactorily educate the 17 years old and also the preschooler, I'd say make her Teacher (not just Mother) of the Year. Sadly, I suspect these kids learn readin', writin' and doin' sums. And learn to quote the Bible chapter and verse.

...and yes, I do believe that we will see some of these 18 kids on America's Most Wanted.

That family is Sick...Im sorry but SICK SICK SICK. How much attention does that bitch need?

Ruling please:
Does this "You are the retarded bastard heir of every murderous totalitarian movement in history" invoke Godwin's Law? It's in that gray area.

thats just madness, 18 kids.

who could be bothered?

i mean i'm one of FIVE and we're considered a fairly big family but i sure as shit wouldnt want my own ginormo brood running round....unless...unless i could train them as an army of assasins and take over the world...then i'd totally do it but i personally wouldnt give birth...im squee'ed out by pregnancy

wait, nobody's mentioned that their names all start with "j"! for serious.

Your mother does suck. (I hate to have to say that so near mother's day.) At least I learned about Godwin's law. That will be very helpful to me in class. I think it does apply. By referring to "every murderous totalitarian movement" that includes the Nazis. Hence, Your Mother loses. Again, Happy Mother's Day.

"I'm sure God loves them too, but I'm guessing they were the wrong skin tone for Southern Baptists."

I don't think the prej stops at skin tone. Look at them! They're all fucking BLONDE!! They're like the von trapp kids minus Leisl, Brigitta and Marta and plus... well... several hundred more blonde kids.

I think incessant birth is demoralizing to the kids. I would question, was I wanted, or just the next thing on the schedule? Are there social cliques within the household? I'm sure the oldest kids don't attend university (too many heretic ideas), but if they did, would they even bother coming home to see their new sibling? At what age did Mrs. Duggar start squeezing 'em out?

These Quiverful homeschoolers and polygamists are all over Southern Utah (aka West Arkansas). Because, you know, the Mormons don't overbreed enough. My wife and I saw this family on TV this morning and were surprised by the coffee maker on prominent display -- because that meant they weren't Mormons.
The numbers are not surprising to someone raised behind the Zion Curtain; 10 kids is a one-on-every-block kind of family, and 5-8 is the norm here.
Of course, that means we get 'benefits' like lowest median age, most crowded classrooms, and the second-lowest per-pupil education expenditures (we beat Mississippi, yea!). It's enough to drive a person to drink, if you could do that here.
And , finally, a blog posting that allows me to feel justified in saying: fuck Your Mother!

OK, I'm better now.

Heh, mere, I was just coming here to point out that all the kids have "j" names. Isn't one of them "Jinger"? I only wish I were kidding..

I think if these people want to have 18 kids, good for them. I doubt you'd be quite as concerned if they wanted to hump someone with the same genitalia or sit around smoking pot all day, so what's this to you?

As for the "natural resources" bit, please. Is the US in danger of exhausting its natural resources? Or did I miss the part about where these people lived in Africa?

"Is the US in danger of exhausting its natural resources?"

Uh, yes. It is. I'm sorry, is this not common knowledge?

jvon, you being up a good point, in your somewhat ignorant statement. same genitalia! Here's my theoretical question: statistically speaking, even being all raised the same with similar genes, at least ONE of the Duggar litter will grow up and realise him or herself to be homosexual. Do you think the family will be accepting? NO, of course not. This child will have to hide how he/she feels, and this will undoubtedly lead that child into a downward spiral of despair, depression, and either he/she will flip and depart the family and go do crazy things because they're "already damned to hell anyway", or worse, he/she will kill him/herself because they are such horrible sinners to like someone with the same kind of plumbing as them. That's going to be a mess, and we'll probably never know about it.
I hope one of them writes a tell all book.

The thing is too, with so many kids of different ages and sexes, u gotta wonder if any abuse is happening in that home, the parents just don't have time to properly look after them all.

Jinger. . . seriously. . . also one is named Jedediah, of course.

Okay, while I do agree that 18 children is way too excessive (obsessive; both?). I don't particulary agree with some comments that more than 3 children is too many kids. Matter of fact, I have 3 children and maybe one day my husband and I would like to have a 4th; that doesn't exactly make us a brood and we actually financially support our kids without the help of TLC.

Personally, I think that the Duggars are batshit insane. It's kind of Flowers in the Attic minus the sugar powder poision part where these kids are basically locked in the house all day. I can't imagine how cracked they all are as I know I would be if I had to look in my sister and brothers faces day in and day out; especially those teenagers who don't have the outlet of friends or school. There is no excuse for having 18 kids, then pimping them on TLC. It's really creepy and exploitive even though I can't figure out what's so fantastic and awe-inspiring about having 18 kids. Shit, dogs can do that and I don't see my pug with a TLC show! Oops maybe I've given TPTB an idea. I'll quit while I'm ahead.

Shiningstar-

I think a show about pugs would be great! To bad we no longer have Dudley Moore to do voice overs.

Alli, I have heard rumours of some of the older male siblings showing a little too much 'brotherly love' for the female siblings.

Honestly, I don't care how many kids one has or doesn't have - I care if you raise an army of sexist idiots, though, because they'll be in the world my daughters inherit. From the Newsweek article:

The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores — or "jurisdictions" — are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a "jurisdiction swap," where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.

"The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass," she said. "The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms," among other chores.

It's like a wacky 50s sitcom! 50 years after it stopped being remotely funny (if it ever was)!

I honestly have issues with people in this country (and most other first world nations) who have more children then they are capable of supporting themselves. Everyone knows about overpopulation and the hyperrapid consumption of natural resources and the disastrous global consequences.

Michelle Duggar schools at least 13 of them, ages 3-13. So, no group sessions. AND, while dealing with them, she has the baby to take care of. And each and every one of those kids is forced to learn the violin and piano- neither is easy to learn. According to the "fun facts" on the official website, the Duggars do 200 loads of laundry a month. That's 50 loads a week, about 7 loads a day. Now, 10 of those 17 kids are under the age of 12. 3 are 18 or over and I pray they don't live at home. That leaves 4 kids to do the brunt of the chores and help with the other kids; which, apparently, is how the whole shebang works considering 3 of those 4 are female, and the women in that house know their place.

To the person who asked, Michelle Duggar would've been 21 when she became pregnant with the first of 18 kids. She's 41.

According to their official site, they buy over $2,000 in groceries a month. That's $24 grand a year on food. Can you imagine what their water bill is like, doing 200 loads of laundry a week, 19 people bathing at least once a day?

Am I the only person who has an issue with religion-based breeding?

What these Duggar lovers seem to be ignoring is the fact that the family is having children at a rate beyond their financial capability to support them. If TLC weren't funding their children by exploiting them for good TV, welfare would be. That means you'd be working to financially support her decision to keep having babies.

jvon: Is the US in danger of exhausting its natural resources?

jkate: Uh, yes. It is. I'm sorry, is this not common knowledge?

Uh, no, jkate, it's not. Would you care to drop us a (non-Gore-approved) reference to support that? In the next 1000 years when humans have been eradicated by Xenu, the Earth will still be here and it will be green, full of food, and plenty of oil.

Hey this is highly educational! Excellent! Thanks, Slug, I didn’t know about Xenu. Holy shit, reality always exceeds fiction, or should it be “fiction always gives rise to reality”?

I agree with you in that our "friend" Gore is no scientist, but are we forgetting the obvious fact that the earth is no longer anywhere near as green as it was before we discovered fire and started to burn the forests down so we could kill a few animals for food before “moving house” and burning some more forest down. In a nutshell: the world will only be green when we have been annihilated. Perhaps another less radical approach might be to simply stop being so bloody fruitful and curb our own growth.

Oooh looky. Tolerant, progressive liberals spitting on people that are not like them. I suppose you would be more accepting if they were black, inner city folks who lived on the government dole and were trotted out by democratic congressmen to promote socialized medicine. But being well adjusted, well mannered and Chirstian (eek! Christians), your venom knows no bounds. The reality is that this family existed long before TLC decided to document them. The husband makes his cash on real estate (probably destroying poor people with bad loans, right libs?) and they get by just fine. Fact is, this family will grow up to be more productive than most of the "progressives" on this site and all the rest. So please, oh enlightened ones, have another abortion. Soon the mental disease that is liberalism will be eradicated.

If you can't take care of them without assistance, then you shouldn't have them. YOUR children are not OUR responsibility. It's one thing to fall on hard times - another thing to continually create your own hard times by bringing innocent kids into the world (who will also be forever affected by the fact that their parents could not provide for them on their own). They're lucky to have TLC's interest... but for the kids' sake, lets hope they don't leave them high-and-dry.

Tate said: "Am I the only person who has an issue with religion-based breeding?"

100 kajillion (and growing, rapidly) Muslims sure don't.

Spectreman, my big issue is if they want to have a lot of children, why aren't they adopting children that are already here? Thousands of children are waiting for parents in this country. If you want an 18 yr old or an infant, you can have your pick! I find it even more amusing because they're so religious. I thought religion preached helping your fellow man?

P.S. Yes, they all live at home.

P.P.S. If you ever want to blow your mind, watch the Discovery Channel or the Learning Channel (forget which) and they have a documentary on these guys and two other large families (10-12 kids). The other two families are the same religion and brag that the community leaves donations of clothing on their porches and next to their car at church.

I wouldn't have a problem with this except that they aren't self supporting. On another note, this must be incredibly hard on her body, I don't think women were meant to breed like that. I also agree with some of the other commenters that this woman and her husband are narcissists. I feel sorry for the older children because you know that they are the ones parenting the younger ones becuase there is no possible time either of the parents have enough time to give each of these children one on one time. Well, I guess Michelle will have to go into menopause sooner or later, then one of her daughters can take over the breeding duties.

Oh yeah, "Your Mother", you take yourself way too seriously.

I don't really understand this family. I think that both of the parents are very selfish. The kids clean, and raise eachother while the parents go make more kids. They had a 7,000 sq. ft. home built, and much bigger than many weathly people who can actually afford it on their own. All the girls share a bedroom, and the boys share a room. Do they not have enough room to be split up a little more and give them some kind of privacy. I feel bad for all of these children, especially the girls for what they have to wear. They look like theyre wearing clothes from the colonial times. Its 2008 PEOPLE not the 1700's, dress them normal and wear a condom or stop having sex like wild animals.

Y'know, at the risk of sounding like I'm defending these folks, what exactly is wrong with siblings helping to raise siblings? Back in the day, when larger families (perhaps not this large of course) were much more common (right, roughly pre-pill), I think this was routine. And no doubt it imbued many older siblings with a stronger sense of responsibility (and less selfishness?) than we see out of a lot of people now. Heaven help any teens today that they should have to put down the feckin' iPod or game controller to do a load of laundry or make dinner or give the baby a bath. Too dangerous. Might learn something about what it takes to be a grown-up.

Maybe it all comes down to choices. The mother should have a choice whether she wants more children or what to do with her own body (ex. take the pill, get her tubes tied, engage in sex with her husband), the girls should be allowed the chance to attend college or look/dress as individuals (the father said publicly the boys are going to college and the girls aren't), and all the children need to have their own time and space away from the family. Every documentary shows them doing everything TOGETHER. They live together, eat together, are all homeschooled together, the older children live at home, they go on trips exclusively with the family and take violin lessons together. Where are the sleepovers with friends? The birthday parties? The Little League games? It's like parents who never stop dressing their twins and triplets alike. Just because they look alike or come from the same family doesn't mean that they're the same!

Listen a couple can have as many childern as they want, wheather they have them on thier on or adopt as long as they care and the thoses childern tha is all that should matter, you love and care for a child and se how they turn on

I am glad I found this site. I am so sick of these people thinking that having 18 kids is ok. It's SO NOT OK. Why is it that only the strange people from Arkansas and Utah are the people over populating the earth?
I think the rest of us know better. There is no way this family can afford these kids (without sponsors of the freak show)or give them the attention each of them need.
This whole thing is appalling. The Louisiana sterilization plan is a great idea.
It should also be looked at in situtations when people have too many kids. Maybe after four kids you should just be sterilized right after delivery.

Poeple like the Duggars are filling up this world and making is miserable for me, you and our kids. If they were registered with the AKC they'd be getting critisized for being a puppy mill.

Here's my take on the Duggar children: At least two children will go to live on another continent and not return home ever; Two children wil never get married; Two children will marry and have no more than two children each; Three children will model their parents breeding behaviors; One child will become a celibate nun; One child will become a celibate priest; All children will suffer psychoses beyond belief.
It is unfair (but fair is not a word that shoud ever be used) and unconscionable to give birth to so many children and to expect each child to accept their fate in that multitude. And, unfortunately as another writer seemed to indicate that older children once gladly accepted the responsibility of assisting with their younger siblings has no clue what it means to be a younger sibling who bears the brunt of resentment from that older child. Responsibility is not even an issue with regards to older and younger siblings. Did Cain exhibit responsibility towards his younger brother Abel? Hmmm. What older children usually become are machiavellian bullies and resenters of the younger siblings when the resentment should actually be directed towards their unbelievably miseducated and ill informed parents.
I'm willing to gander that due to sheer numbers and personality types, that the Duggars know very little of the uniquenesses of each of their children. I'm also willing to gander that each of the children are not always happy, are not all alike, that they have dissimilar tastes in lots of things. It's only a matter of time before at least one of the children ends up on McTherapist's couch, asking the questions, who am I?, What am I?, What am I here for?, Did my parents really love me?.
And by the way, the command to be fruitful and multiply was an Old Testament command specifically directed towards the Jewish people, commanding them to replenish the earth. Rightly dividing the word of truth and appropriately applying it requires the kind of study commanded in II Timothy 2:15. But I'm not sure the Duggars have the time to read the Bible they suposedly embrace. The Bible also strongly suggests that if a man cannot take care of his own family, he is less than an infidel. But like many folks, the Duggars have selectively removed certain scriptures from their Bible, I guess.