Isn't 18 kids enough????

J-Man

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The Duggars, that family from "18 kids and counting" well it will soon be "19 kids and counting". I say enough. Yeah I have 6, but its's yours, mine and ours, and we knew to stop. Some people especially in some religions tell their people to go forth and multiply and dang it they do it, dropping one kid a year. I know one of the reasons we left the church we were members of was that they got pissed at us because we decided to not have anymore, due to the Drs reccommending my wife not have any more due to a problem. So i got the ole snip snip. So pissed in fact, they actually told us it was against the bible, give me a break. And when she had to have major surgery and after the surgery could never even think of another child well, we won't go into what they said.

Don't get me wrong I love kids, and I love mine and my grandkids with all my heart and soul, but please enough is enough, and don't let someone else tell you you need to have 20 or 30 just because.
 
Here's my question.


What makes them think, that their genetics are so perfect, that their talents and skills are so valuable, that their contribution to society are so important, that they should make 17 more of them? Who the fuck are they, that this world needs a monopoly of Duggars running around sucking up resources and breathing my air?
 
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Here's my question.


What makes them think, that their genetics are so perfect, that their talents and skills are so valuable, that their contribution to society are so important, that they should make 17 more of them? Who the fuck are they, that this world needs a monopoly of Duggars running around sucking up resources and breathing my air?

Bitch, it's MY air too, and I want them to have it! :lol:
 
Wow lots of hatred and bitterness in this thread. The moral of the story: shut your mouth because nobody likes to be told how many children they should have. It's a two-way street. If the Duggars can take care of their children then who are we to say they have too many? Just like who's to tell someone they don't have enough children? There isn't a limit on how many children people can or should have. I'm not going to start a "war" about who's right and who's wrong, but I can't sit by and watch someone trash talk as if church people are the only ones guilty. Society in general pressures people to have children - but only so many, lest you become a "freak" or a topic of a forum thread. :rolleyes:

We're all taught from childhood that our lives must follow a certain path or else you'll be considered "unacceptable." I think this is all b.s. by the way, so don't get confused. We're taught to go to school, go to college, find "the one" but only of the opposite sex, get engaged for 1.5 years, get married, buy a house, have 1 child 1 year after getting married, have another child soon so they aren't "too far apart", blah blah blah blah! If you say you want to take time off before college, to have a long/shirt engagement, to not have children at all, to wait for children, to wait "too long" between kids, (etc) you're usually met with, "You WHAT? Really?? You don't want kids?? You're getting married too soon/not soon enough! You want MORE kids??"..... A lot of these social norms are changing, thankfully, so it's not so "weird" anymore if someone doesn't want children, or if they are engaged for 5 years, or if they want to marry someone of the same gender. Unfortunately many of these pressures do still exist. No one likes to be told how to handle their business, but it's a fact of society that some people will say what they will and expect you to conform to a certain "acceptable" lifestyle.
 
The one that gets me is the single woman who had herself implanted with 8 children. WTF, no daddy, no job and a total of 14 kids.

Yeah, this is totally different than my post above. This is just irresponsible. If someone isn't set up enough to take care of the children, they owe it to the children to wait, imo. If they can't provide like a parent should, why in the world are they having children anyway? What's the point? Looking for someone to love them and need them? Get a dog.
 
Yeah, this is totally different than my post above. This is just irresponsible. If someone isn't set up enough to take care of the children, they owe it to the children to wait, imo. If they can't provide like a parent should, why in the world are they having children anyway? What's the point? Looking for someone to love them and need them? Get a dog.

Id say its pretty hard to effectively take care of 18 children, but that's just me
 
Yeah, this is totally different than my post above. This is just irresponsible. If someone isn't set up enough to take care of the children, they owe it to the children to wait, imo. If they can't provide like a parent should, why in the world are they having children anyway? What's the point? Looking for someone to love them and need them? Get a dog.

GFT. all she did it for was to get her own reality show, as if we didn't have enought reality shows now.
 
The Duggars are beyond ridiculous for having that many kids (because I DON'T believe two people can adequately parent that many kids and I don't believe the older children should be forced into so much responsibility without the impetus of dire circumstances), but for what it's worth, at least they're reasonably responsible about it - they don't depend on the generosity of others to feed and clothe them. They work for what they have. And at least they're doing it one-by-one, as opposed to shooting themselves up with a bunch at once, something I find morally reprehensible - if you aren't financially prepared to handle the possibility of a large multiple birth (or to abort a few), you shouldn't be permitted to have multiple embryos implanted.
 
I have to wonder how much one uterus can take! I'm sorry to be so graphic, but come on now - you'd think that thing would be totaled by now...
 
Wow lots of hatred and bitterness in this thread.

Must be your take on it, as I see opinions. Do not look into my photo as the end all/be all of my opinion on this issue. You might be surprised.

The moral of the story: shut your mouth because nobody likes to be told how many children they should have. It's a two-way street.

Inversely, don't jump down the throats of folks who have differing opinions on "what's right". This is an example of how someone, should they choose to have this amount, does it properly. There is no reliance on state services to 'help', and I commend them on that.

I'm not going to start a "war" about who's right and who's wrong, but I can't sit by and watch someone trash talk as if church people are the only ones guilty.

No, they are not the only ones that are guilty... but you almost never hear of large broods of atheists with similar stories. We seemingly hear about large religious families all the time though. It is not mean to be a slight at all, but certainly LDS and other such religious groups do covet large families as I see it.


Society in general pressures people to have children - but only so many, lest you become a "freak" or a topic of a forum thread. :rolleyes:

Freak is the term you have chosen to use... no one else here as used it yet. Look at this from a simple statistical angle.... almost everything in life follows a very simple 3 standard deviation bell curve:

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I do not think that anyone here will argue that this family falls outside of the first two SDs, that encompass 98% of the population. The fringe 2% will always draw looks and comments, no matter the situation this rule is applied to.

No one likes to be told how to handle their business, but it's a fact of society that some people will say what they will and expect you to conform to a certain "acceptable" lifestyle.

Conformity is for the weak minded. Live your life however you want, and tell everyone else to pound sand. Just have to realize the repercussions of such an attitude... which I know I personally have no issue with. :heh:
 
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Freak is the term you have chosen to use... no one else here as used it yet. Look at this from a simple statistical angle.... almost everything in life follows a very simple 3 standard deviation bell curve:
I do not think that anyone here will argue that this family falls outside of the first two SDs, that encompass 98% of the population. The fringe 2% will always draw looks and comments, no matter the situation this rule is applied to.

They're bringing down the worldwide Cpk and generating a non-normal distribution! :zombie::lol: