Posted on 05/26/2004 8:01:12 AM PDT by Moose4
Michelle Duggar is all smiles after delivering her 15th child, but she may be ready for more, her family says.
Mother and child were doing well, although Michelle, 37, was feeling some discomfort because the birth was her second by Caesarean section, said her mother-in-law, Mary Duggar.
"She's a trouper. She's just all smiles," Mary Duggar said.
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What a baby machine!
Only because the kids are white.
Like I said in the tale of the dead Scotsman and the Mambas
DOES ANYTHING NORMAL EVER HAPPEN IN ARKANSAS???
I think if I had a woman that friendly, I would still be married. :-)
All the best to this family. Though I would suggest watching a bit more late night television... :-)
She's been pregnant for 117 months, give or take a few weeks, or 9.75 years.
CSM wrote: “I have mixed feeling with regards to such large families. I'm happy that they are able to and that they can successfully manage that large family. At the same time I'm angered because they don't have to live with the full responsibility, some is passed along to me.”
Full responsibility? This is not a welfare case family. Here are two clues: (1) kids appear to be born within a family; all appear to have the same dad (see the picture); and (2) this is the principal clue, one that tells us that there is much more to this story, the clue that indicates this family would fit in at our church--the kids are home schooled.
Well raised, well educated children are the most important resource for the future of our nation. Instead of writing that some of the responsibility is passed on to you, it would be more accurate to say that some of the benefit (future benefit) will be received by you.
You would think so! But my grandma was one TOUGH lady.
Do they take tax exemptions? I would bet that they get more back than they pay in. Thanks for the info about homeschooling. No one will be paying my SS as I have already maxed my payments and I'm preparing for not having any available.
They don't take their deductions? I bet they get more back from the government than they pay in. What's wrong with the desire that everyone funds their own life choices?
I'm the youngest child in a family of 7. There's 20 years between my oldest sister and me - her oldest son is my age.
I have a photo of that sister with the great-grandmother, but she died a long time before I was born. Out of her 12 children, only my grandfather and one of his sisters (who was murdered) didn't reach their 90s.
I am reminded of a movie called "Yours, mine, and ours" where two people with eighteen children (I think they later ended up with nineteen) seemed to be able to work it out. Cheaper by the dozen... Large families can work if love and sharing are present in abundance. Where I am from, there were many families with 6-15 kids.... One thing though.. Not a good idea to start a fight with one... You have committed your after school time until you whip them all or one of them whips you! :-)
The Duggars are Baptist of some sort, I believe - definitely not Catholic. They're something of a cause celebre in large-family circles, as you can imagine!
Your point is just wrong about SS. You should pray for many, many more people who raise large productive families if you are worried about FICA. The more working to pay in when you are retired, the more money available. The Ponzi scheme requires an ever growing base.
Wouldn't it be more helpful to resent the government, which is using the tax system to set various segments of the populations at one another's throat (deliberately, I believe) ... rather than being hostile toward people who simply love children?
"Well raised, well educated children are the most important resource for the future of our nation. Instead of writing that some of the responsibility is passed on to you, it would be more accurate to say that some of the benefit (future benefit) will be received by you."
The only reason that statement has any validity today is because of the socialist systems we have accepted into our lives. Eliminate socialism and your argument goes away.
My grandmother had 15 kids by the time she was forty, and died fairly young. It was a hard life on the farm, and kids were labor. Hard to imagine that today.
Oh, I think they know. It's just that if they stop, they'll counteract your presence in the gene pool that much less.
How is it passed on to you?
They're not on welfare and they homeschool.
So, the property taxes and sales taxes they pay more than likely outweigh any benefit they receive from the Government.
This country needs (tens of thousands) more families like this. I hope to do my part one day.
"The Ponzi scheme requires an ever growing base."
All socialism colapses under its own weight.
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