"I always tell myself that's a good way to be because that means good things are happening."Posted on 09/03/2009 10:14:50 AM PDT by NYer
SPRINGDALE, Arkansas, September 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar told US news service MSNBC they are delighted to discover the impending arrival of their 19th child. Described by the Today program as "glowing," Michelle Duggar said, "I'm feeling sick and tired, which is a good way to be feeling about right now."
"I always tell myself that's a good way to be because that means good things are happening."
The baby is due to arrive around March 18, 2010.
The family stars in the reality TV show "18 Kids and Counting" airing on TLC. The family are members of the Quiverfull movement among US Protestants that rejects the modern anti-child philosophy and allows God to decide how large their families will be.
The news of Michelle's pregnancy, only eight months after the birth of their last child Jordyn-Grace, was followed by that of the family's eldest son, Josh, who announced that his new wife Anna is expecting their first child, who is due on October 18. "Children are a blessing and a gift if you raise them right, and I think my parents have definitely shown that," Josh Duggar said.
But not everyone is smiling. When the story was published on the website of the left-leaning Huffington Post, commenters did not hesitate to express their hostility to the Duggar's openness to life. 1081 commenters responded with nearly uniform outrage that the Duggars, who have no financial problems, live in a large house they built themselves and are not in debt, have the audacity to be happy with their large family.
"Nothing but pure selfishness," said one. "How about adopting a klan of white children who actually NEED homes?" followed another.
Commenters focused on the "threat" the Duggar children posed to the environment and accused the Duggar parents of using their older children as "unpaid servants and de facto parents" calling them "greedy and slothful." Some called the Duggars' religious beliefs a cult that "expounds the subjugation of women."
"You should pity these poor children with no childhood and no future, who pay everyday for their parents' desire to collect children the way the crazy lady down the street collects cats."
But one writer was more skeptical: "Funny how my fellow liberals preach tolerance and choice until they disagree with someone else's decisions."
The Duggars have produced a book about their experiences, including their decision to stop using artificial hormonal birth control, and have been featured on several US television documentaries. They have also appeared on numerous national and international TV shows including The Early Show, The Today Show, The View, Fox & Friends, Italian Public Television, the Korean Broadcasting System, Discovery Home & Health in the UK and Australia, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Fox News Network and CNN.
See a video of the Duggers here.
Jim Bob Duggar?
The name implies 30 kids!....
And people criticized Octomom...sheesh.
cue “19” Steely Dan..
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Kinda puts the Octomom show in perspective....
She’s certainly an amazing woman, and he’s the ‘Man’.
Heh, good article.
The hatred of the left for life never ceases to amaze me.
I’d rather see more of these children around than children of the Obamaloon and his idiot czars.
But of course the Octomum was eight in one go using the power of hyper-fertility drugs.
This is 19 children the way normal people do it. (One of my ancestors is the 22nd child of a 21st child, so 19 is not that far out).
God bless this family!
Pay no attention the huffington puffington meanies...the ancients called them harpies.
Well, I think they’re absolutely nuts, but if they’re paying their own bills and not expecting the taxpayers to finance their brood, then I don’t see why anyone should care.
In fact, perhaps the Duggars are just evolutionarily smarter than those who have no progeny...using the lefties' own twisted logic, the Duggars are making sure their genes survive, while the left kills off theirs.
Hypocrites at Huff-comPost.
The death cult of the Left recoils at the sight of the happy and abundant life as the Duggars have.
If they’re happy and support themselves, then what business is it of anyone else?
Octomom had no husband and no visible means of support for her family. what business is it of ANYONE to begrudge this couple the life and family they choose to have becaues they are paying their own way.
They aren’t on welfare & are debt free, so what’s the problem? We need all the Christians we can get here.
“klan of white children”
I hope the Huffpost author means “clan”.
Oh no these kids are being raised with responsibilities that give them less time to watch Hannah Montana and wallow in MTV crap. It’s almost like they live on a farm like back in the old days. I hear they don’t even have iPhones.
I believe that for the most part liberals are miserable people from broken homes and dysfunctional families. They denigrate families and family values so they don’t have to face the shortcomings of their own lives. It would make them feel better about themselves if everyone else was just as dysfunctional, broken and miserable.
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