James Robert Duggar is.
Just how much parental care and guidence is each one getting is another.
All the children need - which is why they are such well-adjusted, articulate and energetic individuals.
And what benefit is there to society from having 18 children come from a single litter from two parents
Either you don't know what a litter is, or you intentionally are insulting this family by calling their children a "litter" as if they were beasts instead of people, or both.
rather than 18 children coming from 18 pairs of parents?
18 children coming from 18 pairs of parents represents a precipitous demographic decline of 50% - a trend that would represent a demographic death spiral within 40 years.
From the viewpoint of your standard-issue John Q. Public, a 9:1 ratio of young people to old people as represented by the Duggar family means fully-funded Social Security and Medicare for decades to come.
It means a country that does not have to import millions of foreigners to fill the 50% of jobs left unfilled by those 18 only children from the 18 other families.
It means, in the Duggar context, a family where sharing time and space with one's fellow human beings is an act of love and Christian compassion rather than a rat race between atomistic individuals.
It also means an unshakable belief in and optimism for society's future.
A society that doesn't believe in itself has only children or no children and is eventually snuffed out by outsiders who do believe in themselves.
That's called a pyramid scheme, and it's not a good thing, because it's unsustainable.
However, given the overall birth rate in this country, the Duggars are just helping compensate for the many people who have less than 2 children.
And you know this because?
beasts instead of people
Mindless procreation is an animal trait
18 children coming from 18 pairs of parents represents a precipitous demographic decline of 50% - a trend that would represent a demographic death spiral within 40 years.
And yet the population of the usa increases precipitously. Breeding is not much of an accomplishment . After all getting pregnant doesn't require any great intellectual activity, and it isn't physically difficult. so what's the great admiration for people who are simply demonstrating that their reproductive organs work?