Time Magazine Throwing Shade At Duggar Family
19 Kids and Counting: Why the Duggar Family Keeps Having Kids
Michelle Duggar isn’t big on leaving well enough alone. Well enough, in this prolific procreator’s case, is 19 children. This week, we learned she wants more.
In December, she suffered a much-publicized miscarriage of a girl she and her husband, Jim Bob, named Jubilee Shalom; she would have been the couple’s 20th child. On Tuesday, the Duggars made their first public appearance since losing that pregnancy, where Michelle Duggar told Ann Curry on Today that “I would do it again.”
She clearly loves babies, and I get that. But at some point, it would seem prudent to be happy with your (abundant) lot. Duggar is 45, well into the gray area where pregnancies are more apt to go awry. The Duggars seem so sincere that it would feel downright insincere to question whether their desire to welcome another child to their brood could have anything to do with the continued relevancy of their nine-season reality show, 19 Kids and Counting. The season premiere aired Tuesday night, after their Today interview, and focused on the recent miscarriage.
The episode chronicled the wrenching moment when a routine ultrasound revealed that Jubilee’s heart was no longer beating. I’ve been there too, so it’s not that I have no sympathy for the Duggars’ grief. And kudos to them for allowing the footage to air, believing, as Michelle Duggar told Access Hollywood, that “it was a way to help other families go through difficult situations.”
But I wonder why they can’t seem to find sufficient satisfaction in the bevy of kids they have succeeded in bringing into this world. “Every child is a blessing from the Lord,” Michelle Duggar told Curry. But how can you truly appreciate your blessings when there are so very many?
At BabyCenter.com, Sara McGinnis worries that “the Duggars’ convictions play dangerously with Michelle’s health (19th child Josie was born very prematurely via emergency c-section due to pre-eclampsia)…[and] as a fan sitting on the other side of the television screen [I] feel fear that this family might have to go through such an experience again — or worse.”
In response, one reader wrote: “They will be trying (or at least not preventing) until she is in menopause and/or until she dies in delivery — whichever happens first. They obviously have no regard for limits or caution or whatever…” Another commented: “I feel bewilderment and frustration. 19 kids and two grandkids to take care of and love! Time to take all of the blessings they already have and make the most of that.” But others — many others — praise their faith in God.
Yet I can’t keep thinking that there’s a reason most people have a kid or two, maybe three or even four, and then blow the whistle. Kids demand — and deserve — attention. I can’t fathom how two parents can possibly do laundry for 19 children, let alone spend time with each of them. Then again, I don’t have to contend with Nielsen ratings.
Bonnie Rochman is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @brochman. You can also continue the discussion on TIME‘s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME
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like she makes the decisions here
I LOVE Sister Wives, they have 18 kids iirc, but there are 5 parents (Kody+Meri+Janelle+Christine+Robin) and for what I've seen in the show, they're really good parents and care a lot about their kids. Plus, they don't force their beliefs down their kids throats, I think only one of the teenagers wants to be a polygamist lifestyle, the rest say they want to have monogamous relationships
I cried during last season's finale, lol. When they all had to move to Vegas and everyone was sad and no one understood why they were being bullied/threatened by their own state into moving. It was all just so fucked up and depressing.
how many kids she has is only one of many problems here
"despite having so many"
it also seems irresponsible on a global level to have 19 children. if each of those 19 children have 5 kids, that is 95 offspring. "She wants more kids; get over it." for those of us concerned with population it, that is a little hard to get over.
she was always going and going and never stopping so with 19 kids neglect will happen esp when you are preggers every year and you have a child who needs all the attetnion in the world like the last baby who was born ill
This family is awful. I honestly could go on for days about all the horrible shit they do and openly admit to as if it's no problem. They act as though they are able to afford this life because they budget, but they take hand outs like crazy, they claim their house as a church for tax breaks, they accept clothes left by their van when grocery shopping. They can't afford the children they have so they use shady ways about going about it.
She has put herself and her children in danger many times. Doctors have told her repeatedly to stop having kids because it could kill her and the child, yet she just leaves that doctor and finds some hack who agrees with her.
These people are scum.
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i don't watch the show nor do i know the family so i don't think i can fully comment on their parenting skills, but let's be honest, when you start to reach double digits on the amount of people in your immediate family, you start to wonder how 'close' you all are... :S
that's just me though.
Okay do whatever you want with your body and your reproductive habits, but stop relying on faulty logic.
This is their claim:
God blesses us with as many children as He sees fit.
Okay, right, but you let humanity intervene to assist you through the process. Resewing a prolapsed cervix, what, twice now? Not to mention the Cesarian sections and the assistance with Josie when she was born.
If you're going to pick and choose where God enters this equation (no contraception) and where science, innovation, and people enter the equation (every point after conception), then I cannot fucking take you seriously about your faith because you are inconsistent.
That's it. Have more babies. I hope they're healthy. And I hope the Cognitive Dissonance doesn't hurt too much.
I find most of these Christian Super Heroes suffer from cognitive dissonance
THIS. Spot on.
did it ever occur to them that God gave them the knowledge to make use of things like condoms? sigh.
Amen, ITA with everything. But they would argue that God works through those doctors, and God gave them their talents and skills (I don't agree with that, I'm just saying I've actually heard Jim Bob say that before).
And this is coming from a Christian
(said similar once, in a Gosselin post and got flamed for it. But its fucking TRUE and idgaf.)