Michelle hasn’t murdered her kids but there ARE mentally unstable women who should not be having kids but they will be forced to because that is all we are good for in their world. The whole thing is disturbing. Rational parents do not 1) Monitor and chaperone their ADULT children, 2) Rush their children into marriage, 3) Rush their daughters into having children, especially numerous children.
Everything moves so fast and the couple doesn’t even know each other because they’re never alone. How can a man and a woman really come to know each other on a deeper and intimate level when everything they do and say is monitored?
Until about 75 years or so that’s what common practice was in much of America and things for the most part worked out fairly well. The divorce rates seem to go up after things got so “modren and all high falutin’!
1) you live in your parents’ home. Fair enough that they be concerned.
2) are you interested in them dating on and off for years? As for cohabitation, it’s your parents’ home. Their rules. If they want you to move on and get your own home, even if rented, that’s fine with me. IMHO, the decision of whether or not you marry shouldn’t be indecisive for a while. Take the risks, move on.
3) Or did they just take the risks as young adults, and move forward? I personally am married , got married at 27, and we chose to have the children soon . The older Duggars children could have chosen to wait if they wanted to. However, likely given what they were used to growing up with, which wasn’t much for each child individually, I doubt many of them would be bothered by the prospect of living in a rented home with children not to mention having not so many toys for the children either. I doubt any of the children will choose to have 19 children.