Comments on: Duggar Family Set To Pump Out 19th Baby

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:42:44 +0000

By definition, the Duggar family is dysfunctional – to our society and our world.
They are irresponsible Christians. How do they rationalize that God would consider them to be good custodians of the Earth?

And put Adam in the garden to till/serve it and keep/protect it (Genesis 2.1)

Dysfunctional:
Abnormal or impaired functioning, especially of a bodily system or social group

By: grace m. williams

grace m. williams — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:39:21 +0000

I am an only child and proud of it. I had a happy childhood. You do not need a sibling to complete your childhood. I had lots of friends to fill my time and my parents were always available to me.

Now, large families are dysfunctional with siblings raising each other. A parent is capable of raising only one to two children. I know children from large families who absolutely hate children and do not want any child to go near them. I heard a woman from a large family snarling that she hated children and do not want them as she raised enough children. She is happily single. I am happily single but I do not hate children, I find the little ones cute.

However, large families are detrimental so I feel your pain. Many children in large families do not get good jobs but crappy clerical or blue collar work. Girls in large families tend to seek their affections elsewhere e.g. my aunts had lots of boyfriends and unprotected sex because they did not receive the prerequisite attention at home. I, on the other hand, received attention at home so I never dated or had sex to seek attention. I have hobbies to fulfill me in my life. I seldom go out, I like to read, sketch, cook, write, and use the internet for knowledge. I feel your pain and good luck to you and your siblings. You did the smart thing.

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:47:40 +0000

I grew up in a large family 16 kids, also an evangelical family. On the surface we looked like a loving family, close, happy and we were not wretched. We also did the big sibling raises the little sibling. It wasn’t horrible but it was a megre life, little time with our parents, little privacy, little personal time. We were well off, our father was a noted surgeon. We (the big kids) were not mature enough to actually be in charge of our siblings. What 12 year old is? While I love my sisters and brothers, I find it interesting that not one of us had more than 2 children. We older 7 children had none. I know, as the oldest child, I had raised all the children I ever wanted to raise by the time I was 20. I don’t have any idea if the Duggars are happy or not. A tightly edited program actually shows what the editors want to show.I haven’t seen anything the tells me they are closer than any other kids. What I have noted is that none of the kids seem to be planning a college education and from what I have seen their education(around the dining table) it seems marginal. They seem to have little idea of science, and their view of the outside world seems to be unusual and very passive. I wouldn’t do it and I think raising 19 kids that will be eligible for nothing except blue collar work seems odd. I think it is sad that the kids aren’t encouraged in further education.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:03:44 +0000

Wow Tracy, sounds like you have some personal issues to work on! Just so you know, a slut is a woman who sleeps around with lots of other men. Michelle is with her husband. She is a woman of great virtue and should be respected even if her choices are not ones you would make. Sounds like you would not be capable anyway. Do you have children?

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:58:17 +0000

Thank you for some common sense. I think the Duggars are role models. They raise polite, well educated, self-sufficient children. Not everyone is able to be so selfless as to raise such wonderful kids, as is evident by the negativity on this board. I think the folks who say terrible things about this family are just hiding behind their own inadequacies and selfishness. They know they couldn’t do it themselves, so they attack someone who is obviously successful and they are jealous. That’s OK guys, there’s still time for you to grow up! Oh, and we don’t hear you complaining much about all the welfare moms having 10 kids by 10 different men and living off the government! Now those are the people that should be keeping their legs crossed! More power to the Duggars!

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:40:14 +0000

To me, the problem I see in this show is that here is Hollywood. They made a muck of two other large families, but profited from it. Then here is this other large family that hasn't been dealt the Hollywood card. The part that is too coincidental is that she is pregnant with a 19th child, and all of a sudden there is a show "due" to come out (pun unintended). Despite the health of the mother, child, and family, I have to question the health of those viewers out there that get a rise out of family dysfunction.

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:29:57 +0000

I love all the crybabies saying this is a harsh article. Guess what, Einsteins? This is called Heckler Spray! EVERY ARTICLE ON THIS WEBSITE IS MEANT TO HECKLE SOMEONE! DUUUUH! Go cry somewhere else. And by the way, this woman IS a freak and so is her husband for supplying the sperm. If we the taxpayers have to support them, then it is our business. So since I’m helping to support them and I can’t even hardly support myself (and I have no kids) then I have the right to tell them to STOP!

By: Wembly Fraggle

Wembly Fraggle — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:45:50 +0000

I have a mental image of a gorgeous Thai stripper, legs akimbo, firing ping pong balls out of her foo-foo to the sound of Barry Manilow’s ‘Copacabana’. Except, rather than a gorgeous Thai stripper, it’s a Pam Ayres lookalike and, instead of ping pong balls, it’s a series of mewling, puking infants rocketing out of her clunge.
Still ‘Copacabana’, though.

By: Carly

Carly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:02:48 +0000

I love the Duggars! A beautiful, happy family. Are you tabloid types NEVER satisfied? You exploit the problems of others and criticize in the most brutal way … but then when a happy family comes along you bash them, too! Just because you don’t understand their values doesn’t give you the right to bash them. They’ve done nothing to you, they work hard, they suport themselves, they live with NO DEBT, they are kind and caring supportes of their community, they don’t impose their values on us or anyone else. They have a chosen lifestyle and it’s their right to live as they choose and it’s their right to take advantage of the TLC opportunity to earn additional income.
LEAVE THEM ALONE.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:31:48 +0000

Those who have relevant things to say do not need to be hateful in how they express themselves.

“Presumably there’s a bloody great vacuum inside Michelle Duggar’s uterus, because she’s just got pregnant with her 19th child.”

“That was all Michelle Duggar said, because immediately afterwards a small gust of wind got caught up in her numerous excess post-pregnancy skin flaps and she was carried away to the horizon like a great big fleshy kite.”

Nice. I second everything Joe said.

By: KLC

KLC — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:13:37 +0000

Wait so I have one quick question. How can they be against TV (and not allow their children to watch it) but they can have a TV show? Isn’t that a little ironic?

By: City Streets

City Streets — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:43:50 +0000

Well many people think these people are well off, jus because papa DUGGAR got his work on..NOT. Only reason they are well off is because they get paid from the TV show maybe like 75,000 a eposide. Like the John and Kate plus eight. I dont know what they are what the final check says(but its a lot) When the duggars first come on TV, they where shopping at SAVE-A-LOT which is a discount food market or something.

Now they have a bigger house, fancy bus not CAR hello and they all dress and look great..I could never say they where poor, dirt poor when they started with the show. But I know for a fact they are way better off now, then before this show started….should I say a UPGRADE U..

Give me a break if I got 75,000 eposide I would be a happy go lucky family also.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:12:49 +0000

Hecklerspray as a political/economic sounding board. Hmmm.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:59:02 +0000

All Michelle Duggar is, is a slut, any woman can lay there and get pregnant, but you never see her taking care of those kid’s. The older children (girl’s) have to tend to the little one’s. As for her husband he would not be so eager to have all those kid’s if they were falling out of him. Enough all ready get a tv, or a hobby who care’s if laying up is all they do. And by the way they are not self sufficient or they would not be on tv.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:43:38 +0000

Coming from a big family myself, I can only feel sad for this famiy. I love my family and each one of my siblings, and would never be the same without them all. but I don’t see how the older kids in the family deal with all this cripe plastered all over the net and tv. how could they ever have a normal life with that going on? if I’m worth anything I’d have to guess they all feel really like they are not their own person own person, just one of the 19 and counting. Sad.