Doin it like rabbits

[kstater]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/18_kids

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman — she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.
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"We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing.

The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.

The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled.

Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.

The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores — or "jurisdictions" — are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a "jurisdiction swap," where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.

"The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass," she said. "The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms," among other chores.

Duggar said she's six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they'll keep having children as long as God wills it.

"The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated," Jim Bob Duggar said. "Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen."

The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.

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On the Net:

Duggar family Web site: http://www.duggarfamily.com

[Groves]

They're not on welfare, and much to some of your surprise, they look well fed.

Maybe I'm reaching here, but I think raising 18 kids is a pretty intense job, actually. Am I missing something?

[Adept Havelock]

Originally Posted by frazod

I keep thinking of the Catholic family from Monty Python and the Meaning of Life.

"God has blessed us so much, that I can't afford to feed you."

[Cntrygal]

So are they from "old money" or what? They sure as hell shouldn't be getting any government assistance.

[Dartgod]

Looks to me like they're pretty well off. More power to them I say.

http://health.discovery.com/converge...slideshow.html

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Groves

They're not on welfare, and much to some of your surprise, they look well fed.

Maybe I'm reaching here, but I think raising 18 kids is a pretty intense job, actually. Am I missing something?

no ... they're not on welfare they just use all that tithe to the church to raise their kids.


"give to GOD, give til it hurts ..................... so i can buy my kids new shoes"

[RadeAM2]

I tried this position once. It does not work.

[cdcox]

We have friends that have something like 10 kids. She was probably 27 when they started having kids. They live on probably 60K per year. It can be done. Great kids, too.

[FAX]

Originally Posted by cdcox

We have friends that have something like 10 kids. She was probably 27 when they started having kids. They live on probably 60K per year. It can be done. Great kids, too.

There was a family in the next town when I was growing up that had 16 children. They actually lived in an old, renovated schoolhouse. The mom told me that, basically, when you have that many kids, they essentially raise themselves.

FAX

[beavis]

It's idiots like this that make me think China is doing it right.

[POND_OF_RED]

I would have loved to had their stimulus check.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by kstater

Geez, you only need one to prove it works.

[Delano]

Oh gee, all the kids have names starting with a 'j.'

What a ****ing novelty Jim Bob Duggar.

My wife watched the Duggar show consisting of those clowns building a gigantic house. All kinds of needless shit built in such as a slide from one floor to the other and a hide out and what not. I also remember a scene where they are asking their little congregation for money.

[Herzig]

Originally Posted by el borracho

I always wondered what life must be like in Tontito-town.

I live about 7 miles from Tontitown(Pronounced Tawny Town). It was started by a group of Italian Catholics...it really surprises me that the Duggars live there. I know the wife/Michelle grew up in Springdale(according to my coworkers)...so they must have located there after marrying Jim Bob. This area is not as country as some would make it out to be. Between Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville(which all border each other) there are over 300,000 people and some huge fortune 500 corporation headquarters...Walmart, Tyson, JB Hunt

[Bob Dole]

Wonder what their carbon footprint is?

[Adept Havelock]

Originally Posted by L.A.Chieffan

They're not. They're evangelical or some shit and the Dad is the Pastor. Shocker. My wife watches their stupid ass show sometimes

Are they part of the quim(mer) full movement, or something like that?