The Duggars are expecting their 20th child. God bless them. I don’t watch the show often but when I do I’m amazed how good and happy the kids seem and how kind the parents are.
But, of course, all those people who demand “choice” are freaking out over the Duggar’s announcement.
The LA Times ran the headline: “Duggars expecting baby No. 20; congrats, horror, finale ensue.”
The birth of a 20th baby from one set of parents is bound to raise some eyebrows — or drop some jaws and spur some expressions of horror. Add to the total number of children these tidbits: Mom is 45; the last Duggar addition — born in December 2009, three months early and at 1 pound, 6 ounces — began life in a neonatal intensive care unit; and the size of the family and its continued growth are the basis for a reality show.
On Tuesday, tweets included the unkind variety — “sick,” “stupid” and “out of control”…
The Metro published this nasty piece:
Someone please stop Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar. The reality TV couple and human rabbits announced yesterday on “Today” they are expecting their 20th child this spring — this after their 19th baby, Josie, was born at only 25 weeks and survived a host of expensive and life-threatening medical problems. Michelle also suffered preeclampsia and gall-bladder problems through that pregnancy.
“We are so excited,” said Michelle, 45, who is three and a half months into her new pregnancy.
Jim Bob, 46, echoed his wife’s sentiments, saying, “Michelle and I both feel like some of the most blessed parents in the world.”
“We didn’t want to stop on an odd number,” he added.
Whew. Here I thought they wouldn’t have a good, medical reason for putting Michelle’s life at risk and adding to an already crowded world. Being particular about an odd versus even number is totally logical.
You know, I’m starting to think that libs aren’t all that fond of human beings, especially of the tiny drooling cutey in diapers variety.
November 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm
What I love is that Michelle are her hub don't rely on "Anonymous's" opinions. They have worked with God to determine His will, and it is to create life. Because life begins at conception and not when the child can be held or fed or go to school or pay taxes . . . . God has already done it! That new life is in the world today, right now, because of their openness, and "anonymous" cannot discount it and have any credibility. Especially on this blog. Life is not a means – it is the end, and it is GOOD. (Despite death, pain, sorrow, suffering, disease, expense, and all other possible "What ifs?")
My husband and I have five kids. Every time I have had another child, I am slightly less apprehensive about dying and leaving them. Because they have more family. More glue holding them together. More love. More proof of my love for them, in my self sacrifice (human and imperfect that it is.) I imagine that the younger Dugger children, were they to lose their mom, would be bereft, but they would also have arms to hold them every moment of every day. That family would be a living testament to mom's love for each child. Perhaps I am too . . . naive. But faith often looks like simple mindedness, from the outside. You have to see it from the inside to try to truly understand.
And who of us lives forever? Would that we all left behind such a generous family legacy.
November 13, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Actually it's selfish to have fewer children than are necessary for replacement, if anything is selfish—at least in a society where so much depends on maintaining the tax-rolls to fund people's Social Security.
A Baby Boom generation that widely adopts contraception, right after its parents put a welfare state into place, was basically the perfect storm of stupid choices.