Supernova wrote:

I mean let's face it to have 18 kids who turn out healthy and normal is nothing short of a fucking miracle, but miracles don't last forever. Their last kid didn't turn out right and when they tried again after that, that child died, you'd think that she'd count her blessings, be thankful for the 19 she has and call it quits.

That's the problem she can't quit, if she stops the money from the TV show goes away. Before they had the show there was one show about "who are the Duggars and why do they have (was it 15 or 16) kids then? In that show the kids were positively slaves helping build a larger house, so there wasn't a huge amount of money or they would have hired people who actually knew what they were doing. The other thing was the older kids when they weren't building the house were parenting the younger kids. That's what happens when you have too many kids you stop being the actual parent and kids raise kids, I have seen it before in large families.

Suzi wrote:

That's the problem she can't quit, if she stops the money from the TV show goes away. Before they had the show there was one show about "who are the Duggars and why do they have (was it 15 or 16) kids then? In that show the kids were positively slaves helping build a larger house, so there wasn't a huge amount of money or they would have hired people who actually knew what they were doing. The other thing was the older kids when they weren't building the house were parenting the younger kids. That's what happens when you have too many kids you stop being the actual parent and kids raise kids, I have seen it before in large families.

Exactly, and now some of the kids have kids of their own, they can't raise them AND their brothers and sisters at the same time and they shouldn't have to because that's not their job, it's not their responsibility.

They exhaust me. Coming up with names at this point must be getting kind of difficult, but whatever. Good luck with the new baby; and the next one, and the one after that.