Stop. Just stop.

The Duggars have struck again.

Let's refresh, shall we?

[h/t attaturk]

Comments

[sister of ye]

If those kids grow up to be like most big-family kids I know, those who have kids will have no more than 1-2, and half of them won't have any.

As one of 10 kids, one of the finest moments of my life was moving into my first efficiency apartment and crying: "My own bathroom!"

Well, yes, I do need to work on getting a better caliber of fine moments in life.

[Monica_A: Superdevil]

For the love of God!

[Attaturk]

Watertiger, you know you really should link to our Wombum Opus on the Duggars:

http://risinghegemonxxx.blogspot.com/2005/11/he-said-she-spread.html

[Joy]

What kind of work does this man do that he can afford 17 children and a 7000 sq. ft home? Just curious.

[watertiger]

atta j., it was an oversight on my part!

[Elspeth R]

Aren't any of their ungodly brood old enough to enlist? There's the surge shrub is looking for...jeebus!!!
elspeth

[Elspeth R]

Oh, hey...if they had as many cats or dogs, they would be confiscated! Hey, Mr. Duggar, quit 'duggin' on the wife - give her a break for cryin' out loud. I think you have done your 'biblical' duty plenty by now, just start whackin' off in the powder bath w/your male porn, mmmkay?

So, any bets on how soon the eldest daughter will be married off to a friend of the family to start her own army of blandness?

Elspeth

[Delphyne]

Agreed, Sister of ye....as the oldest of 8, I chose not to have kids in this lifetime. Half my siblings have no kids and the most anyone had is 3. My question is how these kids receive adequate attention from their parents - how many of them are emotionally missing in action, I wonder.

[shrimplate]

Groucho Marx once confronted a mother of a large family with the question "Why so many kids, lady?" and she said that it was because she "loved her husband very much."

To which Groucho replied "I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth sometimes!"

[dan mcenroe]

The other day I was bouncing the younger of my two kids on my lap, and she was gurgling, drooling, showing off her three and half teeth, and I was thinking, God, I just love it when kids are this age...

...and too bad this is the last fucking time I'm going to experience it with one of my own kids. Seventeen kids? Are they nuts?

What kind of work does this man do that he can afford 17 children and a 7000 sq. ft home? Just curious.

Meth lab. Also explains why they're up all night.

[Frank Farkel]

My first thought was how will they afford to put all those kids through college? I have 2 in college and it's killing me. Then I read they're all being home-schooled. Oy. I can imagine how that's working out. In addition to cooking and cleaning for 17, Mom has to be an expert on teaching every subject in every grade from K to 12?
On the plus side, the Duggars will keep the local Jiffy Lube and WalMart well-supplied with employees...

[jerri]

Christian evangelicals are the only community I know that encourages people to have more children than they can feed.

[four legs good]

Oy, that's just disgusting.

[nuncamas]

As the eldest of only three, it always bugged me when either parent would go through the names of the other two first before getting my name out. Bet that happens all the time with the J-kids, prolly good ol' mom & dad can't even remember their names. Great hangup to take into adulthood.

[FeralLiberal]

ROFLMAO - You're gonna get me in trouble at work...

[Thor Heyerdahl]

Oy! Monty Python's "Every Sperm is Sacred" just started playing in my head...even if they're not Catholics. Strangely it was a version I'd never heard before...interspersed with "Duelling Banjos".

As for the kids, here's saying one-two will become an adult b-movie star, another couple will leave for the underground scene in NYC-that bastion of heathenism, one or two might end up living a 'normal' life, one or two will wind up in a compound shooting guns like Ted Nugent and the rest...Wal-Mart employees, or infantry grunts in America's war with Oceania.

[Kate Petersen]

I read somewhere, and I can't find the link with a quick search, that Michelle breastfeeds each new kid for about 6 months and then hands it off to the older girls to raise while she goes about the business of banging out the next one.

No parenting, no attachment = 17 messed-up kids. So far. Home schooling = 17 uneducated kids. So far.

The girls do all the housework and cooking, while the boys, I suppose, stand around and demand sandwiches and look studly. Perfect training for their Christian adulthood.

[misc]

Wouldn't ya know that his name is Jim Bob!

[Ellie]

Oh ick. And all their precious little names start with a "J". Even "Jinger." Utterly revolting.

[Sharkbabe]

Neuter and spay, it's the only way

[lowly grunt]

I read somewhere that the more older male siblings a man has the likelier he is to be gay.

I wonder if the fundamentalists know that??

[pansypoo]

when fecund becomes stupid.

[Elspeth R]

Hmmm, the last one will be named "Jism"
...
elspeth

[FastMovingCloud]

Apparently, hers is some kind of clown car!

[flory]

Hmmm, the last one will be named "Jism"
...
elspeth

:lol:

That'll be the one right after Jesus.

[donna]

Maybe she should offer Mr. Duggan an iphone...

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/03/man-undergoes-vasectomy-to-get-iphone/#comment-172883

[Laurie]

jerri, I think you have your evangelical Christians confused with your good old garden variety Roman Catholics. I grew up near many many families of 7 or 8, but there were 2 families of 13 in my neighborhood, one family of 15, one family of 18 and I think a couple of 10s and 11s in there as well. Oh, and a family of 16 as well. True, most of the kids didn't get the attention they deserved and the older kids grew up wayyyy too quickly but it's not as bizarre and horrible as some of you are making it out to be.

That being said, I loved growing up in a large family, but I certainly won't have that many kids. My husband's family, however, is also large and many of those kids have 5 or 6 kids. So, it works for some families but not for others. But I do inherently distrust the ones who homeschool and are all dressed alike. Oh, and the "J" thing REALLY bothers me. I guess I just don't like the freaky evangelicals no matter what.

[wa ching]

And they're NOT in Utah???

[leslie]

Thor Heyerdahl~
"Dueling Banjoes" and "Every Sperm is Sacred"
Bwahahahahahaha!

Can you just imagine what her uterus looks like?

Oy, I need brain bleach now.

[klyde]

What kind of work does this man do that he can afford 17 children and a 7000 sq. ft home? Just curious.

None they live off of donations from church groups. They are the poster children for the Quiver Full movement

[Ruthie]

I grew up near many many families of 7 or 8, but there were 2 families of 13 in my neighborhood, one family of 15, one family of 18 and I think a couple of 10s and 11s in there as well. Oh, and a family of 16 as well. True, most of the kids didn't get the attention they deserved and the older kids grew up wayyyy too quickly but it's not as bizarre and horrible as some of you are making it out to be.

True. But there's still a big difference between people having a dozen kids because they don't use birth control, and a family like the Duggars who makes a mission out of whompin' 'em out for Jeebus, and setting it all out on the Intertubes for every perv in the County Jail to whack off to during his allotted computer time.

[WTF]

Traveling in Mexico I met a family with 27 kids. That sort of reality brings home the truth that all you need is love, because they didn't have much else. This was all from one family. I was amazed at that and they seemed to enjoy life as it was in their part of the world.

[jolie]

I note the family's website has "discovery channel: health" all over it. obviously the duggar brood is being funded by the discovery channel. not to mention the federal government hand-outs they receive with scary regularity (having taken a page from the many-wived mormon families' book, receiving monthly social security payments).

so, here's an opportunity to let the commercial financial interests know loud and clear how we feel about it.

boycott, anyone?

[barbie2be]

hopefully mrs. duggar's uterus will fall out before she has a chance to have anymore. i mean seriously. what the hell are they thinking?

[AEB]

You people are INTOLERANT and sick. If those people want that many kids, why are people like you so quick to ridicule them? They look happy and healthy. I admire and respect the Duggars. Not my decision to have 17 kids, but why would you criticize? So now we all have to conform to your preconceived little notions? Seems like big Catholic and evangelical families are fodder for you "enlightened" liberals. You claim to be enlightened but you sure have your heads up your ass. You just can't accept that these people have created a happy, loving, healthy family. If this were a same-sex couple your praise would be all over this family like flies on shit. Get over yourselves.

[Sinfonian]

Now, now, AEB, I don't believe anyone's criticizing the Duggars' decision to have 17 kids. The problem is that they're having 17 batshit crazy fundie kids. Do you understand the difference? Good. Thanks for participating.