Now here is a heart warming story

[Grandpa Shooter]

More power to them. Wanted kids and had them..Way to go!


http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20247340,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines


Duggar Family Welcomes 18th (!) Child
By Alicia Dennis

Originally posted Friday December 18, 2009 08:10 PM EST
The Duggar Family, before the latest arrival
 
Photo by: Beth Hall / AP 
Give us another J!

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of Tontitown, Ark., had their eighteenth child Thursday – Jordyn-Grace Makiya, who joins the rest of her J-named siblings.

Jordyn-Grace was born via C-section at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers, weeks before her due date of Jan. 1. She weighed in at 7 lbs, 3 oz and was 20 inches long.

"Mother and baby are resting and doing well," says a rep for the Duggar family, whose crowded house is featured on the TLC network show 17 Kids & Counting.

The newest Duggar has a lot of names to keep straight.

The other kids – who range in age from 20 years to 17 months – are Joshua (who married Anna Keller in September and says he is looking forward to the "blessing of children" of his own), twins John-David and Jana, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, twins Jeremiah and Jedidiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah and Jennifer.

Their parents married when Michelle was 17 and Jim Bob was 19. (Her mother had to officially sign permission.) After birth-control pills were blamed for a miscarriage, the couple decided to throw them out. They've had a new baby approximately every 18 months since.

"What really works for me is swaddling a baby and snuggling up," Michelle told PEOPLE in an interview last year. "I love that time of just bonding and nursing a little baby. And, with a new baby, I realize that I don't need as much sleep as I used to think I did. You learn. This time goes by so quickly. I look at my older children and wonder where the time went."

[Bogie]

Gotta wonder what Jim Bob does for a living...
 

[myrockfight]

Gotta wonder what Jim Bob does for a living...
 

I can't remember. He owns a business though. They have a show on AE or some channel like that called "The Duggars" IIRC.

Here is their website. http://www.duggarfamily.com/

They are a DEEPLY religious family. The last show I saw was about how one of the sons was proposing to a girl that he has never kissed. And they won't kiss until after they get married. Needless to say, I thought it a a little extreme. It sounded like they were doing it more out of pride/propaganda than a sincere motivation. I could be reading it completely wrong but the kid did so much preaching about it I was starting to change the channel. Maybe he was trying to convice himself  I dunno.

Interesting story though.

[taurusowner]

I'm reading the same story over at Fark, and the comments on that thread are downright hateful towards them.  Mostly run of the mill Christian bashing.

[Gewehr98]

Feh.

Christian or not, I hope Jim Bob's got a good job and a serious nest egg saved up, seeing that he and the wife have decided to single-handedly repopulate the earth. 

(Can't stand watching John & Kate Plus 8, myself)

[Grandpa Shooter]

They are a DEEPLY religious family. The last show I saw was about how one of the sons was proposing to a girl that he has never kissed. And they won't kiss until after they get married. Needless to say, I thought it a a little extreme.


Extreme in what way?  In DEEPLY religious families they acturally live by the Bible.

[Gewehr98]

Dude, I'm deeply religious.

We're Lutheran, but it doesn't mean my wife is going to squirt out an entire football team.

We're exercising discretion, and living within our means, etc, the whole "With Scripture comes great responsibility" thing. 

Give me a break...  :rolleyes:

When the infant/child mortality rate was higher back in the day, big families were considered the norm, for sure.

The thread title is a misnomer, at best, IMHO.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

they own several businesses  do quite well

[Gewehr98]

Well, there you go.

They're a role model for all...

[Tallpine]

they own several businesses  do quite well

Lot's of free help, too

[Sindawe]

Forests covered in horefrost, warm kittens & scientific discoveries warm my heart.

People who treat a womans reproductive organs as a clown car do not.

With better than 6 x 10^9 people on the planet, there are enough of us already.

[Gewehr98]

Some would say they're living by the Bible.

I think they're just living out Monty Python's Meaning of Life.

Or at the very least they're lending credence to an Andrew Dice Clay nursery rhyme.   

[BlueStarLizzard]

gonna point out that if i ever get to that point i would like more then the average amount of kids. 18, however seems exsesive.

and for the record their are other means of birth control then just the pill. i really would like to know what she was using and if its really to be blamed for a miscarraige, considering that such things do happen (especially to young women who havn't fully developed yet. just because you can breed at 17 doesn't mean that your body should)

and i don't get how not kissing is being religious within the christian faith... seriously, someone explain this to me...

[gunsmith]

somebody has to populate the earth

[BridgeRunner]

I knew a Jewish family who regarded it as their personal mission to replace the population killed in the holocaust.  Last I knew, they had sixteen.  I think it's great that the parents have found this delightful mission in life.  Too bad it destroyed much chance for the kids to develop individual interests and destroys much of the cHance of any personal attention from their parents.

Certainly not something I would do.

[Northwoods]

18 would be a bit much for me.  But I wouldn't mind a couple/three more (I have two already).  That said, Mrs Sumpnz is still working on her bachelor's degree and will be 28 in January.  I'd also like to get her graduated and working for a little while. 

'Course, there's always the chance that we'd wind up raising a neice/nephew if her sister ever turned up pregnant given that she's on SSI for psychiatric reasons.  Not likely given the general distrust of men from her sister, but that's always a possibility.

[Jamisjockey]

Show is boring as drying paint.  And who cares, as long as they don't live off welfare?  Its her uterus.

[MicroBalrog]

I knew a Jewish family who regarded it as their personal mission to replace the population killed in the holocaust.  Last I knew, they had sixteen.  I think it's great that the parents have found this delightful mission in life.  Too bad it destroyed much chance for the kids to develop individual interests and destroys much of the cHance of any personal attention from their parents.

This. I live in a neighborhood with a sizeable orthodox Jewish population. I see this play out every single day.

[roo_ster]

Heck, dad brings home bacon sufficient for them all.

Since they're not on welfare, more power to 'em.

[Gewehr98]

Show is boring as drying paint.  And who cares, as long as they don't live off welfare?  Its her uterus.

I suppose, as long as it doesn't just plain fall out. 

[Perd Hapley]

Forests covered in horefrost, warm kittens & scientific discoveries warm my heart.

People who treat a womans reproductive organs as a clown car do not.

Article says they have a kid about every 18 months.  How is that any sort of abuse of reproductive organs?  Sounds like they're being used for, ya know, reproduction.  Oh the noes!!

[RocketMan]

They know what causes it.  They have the moolah to handle it.  In the absence of any evidence that it is harming anyone else, it's their business.

[Bogie]

One kidney stone was enough for me. 18 would likely involve some serious mayhem.

[Gewehr98]

One would think she didn't need a C-Section after 17 births.

Of course, who's to say that scar isn't really an incision, but rather a zipper?

[K Frame]

Gotta wonder what Jim Bob does for a living...
 

They own a bunch of commercial real estate.