Everytime either one of the them said, “the children come first”, I said, “Then get your act together and be the parents that they need!”
My husband and I got married when we were 17, it was tough, we weren’t Catholic but I took my vows seriously. After the first 13 rocky years, which were extremely bad and extremely good, we finally lost the extreme and settled down to good and bad days.
People aren’t willing to work through the hard parts, they just want to give up.
I don’t know if this is true but I read on a blog once that when Kate had the sextuplets, her father’s church pitched in and made sure she had all the stuff she needed for the kids but it was all used and Kate threw a fit because she wanted all new stuff. While I thought that was immature and selfish and rude, I thought the reaction of her supposed pastor father beyond unkind, he basically disowned her and removed himself from the lives of the twins which he had helped to babysit and never got to know the 6.
I just thought that if that was true, it was very sad and really gives an insight into who Kate is, instead of fixing their relationship, it was just written off. I have 4 grandchildren and I have bent over backwards to maintain a relationship with their parents so that I get to be a part of their lives.
Everyone just wants their own way and no one is willing to give an inch to truly do what is good for the children.
Amen, tiki.
I had read this, too. And it doesn't help that since the show started airing, Kate has often admitted she is a control freak. Her need to control is alienating everyone around her (I'm not excusing Pastor/dad's disowning, I agree with you, clearly a negative influence on her). It doesn't help that it was decided that Jon quit his job (so she could tour and they could keep filming) further increasing her control and alienation and emasculating him. It's also no secret that he didn't want to continue with the show after the first 2 or so years, after they got out of those early baby years and became more financially stable.
It's sad to see them unravel on TV, presumably for our 'entertainment' while the show shamelessly just keeps pushing them at us, knowing it's tearing them apart.
It's the "me society." When we moved into our new neighborhood about 12 years ago, we looked down the street at the happy couples, and said to each other, "ten years from now, a third of these couples will be divorced." And here we are. It's very sad and unnecessary. No one seems to be putting the children first.