The Duggar family had their 18th child a couple of weeks ago. I actually had never heard of them until the recent birth announcement. I was, frankly, appalled.
There's no way these children will get the full attention they need from their parents. With 2 parents to 18 kids it can't be done. They've adopted the buddy system where the older children are assigned younger children to care for. That puts a lot of pressure on kids and kids raising kids isn't a good recipe for a human being.
This really strikes me as selfish, irresponsible, and as one of my friends said, a fetish. It's unfair to these children and to the community that apparently donates the funds for them to live.
Of course, they're conservative Baptists who belong to the Quiverfull movement, their lives controlled by their unusual reading of the Bible. How else would they think this was a good idea?
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You don't get the point. With 18 kids, they can now field two baseball teams; the kids will never lack for a baseball game. Of course, they still need a pitching staff so they probably need to have four or five more kids.
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