8:03 pm - 02/19/2013
On TLC's three-part special, 19 Kids & Counting: Duggars Do Asia, the Duggar family -- yes, all of them -- leave Arkansas behind to taste the offerings of the Far East. And by tasting, we mean getting freaked out by scorpions on a stick and learning to roll their own sushi.
"It was scary!" says matriarch Michelle Duggar. "Their toilets were very different," observes another family member.
Can they find enough rickshaws to transport them all? Do geisha outfits come in extra-tall sizes? Check out this exclusive sneak peek of the special to see how the family fares in China and Japan:
The 19 Kids & Counting: Duggars Do Asia three-part special kicks off on Tuesday, March 12 at 9/8c on TLC.
Hannibal
The Duggars Invade China and Japan!
On TLC's three-part special, 19 Kids & Counting: Duggars Do Asia, the Duggar family -- yes, all of them -- leave Arkansas behind to taste the offerings of the Far East. And by tasting, we mean getting freaked out by scorpions on a stick and learning to roll their own sushi.
"It was scary!" says matriarch Michelle Duggar. "Their toilets were very different," observes another family member.
Can they find enough rickshaws to transport them all? Do geisha outfits come in extra-tall sizes? Check out this exclusive sneak peek of the special to see how the family fares in China and Japan:
The 19 Kids & Counting: Duggars Do Asia three-part special kicks off on Tuesday, March 12 at 9/8c on TLC.
Hannibal
That's it.
No doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers or artists in this family.
Women are meant to be wives, mothers and homemakers, and must always do so "with a smile". It makes me sick and I feel so bad for those girls for having to raise all their siblings.
I feel like if I were in this situation, I would be trying desperately to concoct an escape plan.
it must be terrifying to live that way, knowing your parents couldn't care less about you and that your duty in life is to do what they tell you. you have to go along and pretend or things get worse.
they're all pretty brainwashed, but a couple of interviews i've seen suggest at least a few are really uncomfortable. i heard that some of the girls share BEDs with the little ones, yet the parents get all their own private shit. this psycho family is so controlling they can't even get their own private space.
Edited at 2013-02-20 04:20 am (UTC)
unless they do get to go to a 2 year college for an RN because you know Jim Bob isn't letting them get a BSN.
I think looking after your siblings is a good thing to have to do, but not at the expense of your own security and education.
And yeah, that whole notion of girls transforming from rambunctious individuals into Little Mothers Sweet And Mild is very... well, it's the thing that put me off the latter books in the Anne of Green Gables series, and a lot of books of the same time period. That time period being A CENTURY AGO DUGGARS.
While I understand that siblings help out with each other and that's fine in certain situations - especially big families - the Duggars definitely force their DAUGHTERS (this being the key word, as notice the older sons don't have any obligation to raising the kids) into servitude, deny them a proper educations and thus a chance at a decent future.
They're also part of the Gothard cult and ship their kids off to brainwashing camp when they "get out of line", or show any original thought I'm guessing.
They get me so heated I could go on forever about their dumb asses.
Edited at 2013-02-26 04:49 am (UTC)
Can you imagine. He moved to a different country to get work and didn't get MARRIED till he was TWENTY NINE YEARS OLD and do you know? He had to COOK FOR HIMSELF! JimBob would starve, and probably die of not having new socks. (Why not WASH AND REUSE? Nobody needs that many socks on a trip!)