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Name needed beginning with J for 18th child!!!!

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katz · 10/05/2008 10:38

the duggars

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MerlinsBeard · 10/05/2008 15:58

oh i didn't help witha name lol!

joe?
Jenna?
John?
Jim?
Jemima?

schneebly · 10/05/2008 16:02

Jessica for a girl and Jacob for a boy

LouLou13 · 10/05/2008 17:29

Joely for a girl? Joel for a boy?

kittywise · 10/05/2008 17:44

They believe that every child they have is a gift from God. So everytime she gets pg then it is meant to be.
I am amazed that her body, particularly her womb has held out.
Good luck to them.
I dread to think how much it costs

hatrick · 10/05/2008 17:50

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TakeMeHome · 10/05/2008 18:44

How about J for "JUST-STOP-NOW" ??

llareggub · 10/05/2008 18:59

It also said on the documentary that they have no debt at all, not even a mortgage.

MerlinsBeard · 10/05/2008 21:32

they built that huge house themselves IIRC

gigglewitch · 10/05/2008 22:48

that's a few too many kids. my work is cut out with three

chewlips · 10/05/2008 22:59

Have seen a documentary on them before. They are home ED, they built most of the house themselves and did it as an exercise on costing etc as part of their home ED.

When they go on "vacation" the parents get them all to wear similar colours so she can easily spot them.

MsHighwater · 10/05/2008 23:07

They had a family website but it seems to have been taken over by Discovery channel here.

colacubes · 10/05/2008 23:10

My Lord, this women must never have a headache!!

MsHighwater · 10/05/2008 23:12

I find myself imagining the teenage rebellion potential in this family!

Nighbynight · 10/05/2008 23:33

18 kids, home ed and a house? how do they do it?? and respect.

cadelaide · 10/05/2008 23:34

how spectacularly unimaginative

Astrophe · 10/05/2008 23:54

wow. I think my uterus will fall out if I keep going past 4! But tbh, that website makes me want to have lots and lots - I haven't seen the TV show, but they look like sweet kids and a really happy family.

cadelaide · 10/05/2008 23:57

Oh stop it you lot.

Yes they're all very lovely and admirable and everything but all their names begin with J.

How can you all overlook such idiocy?

stuffitllama · 10/05/2008 23:58

Jeronimo

expatinscotland · 11/05/2008 00:23

It's all God's will, too.

Erm, yeah, right.

If you want to go down that path, well, then God invented the atomic bomb, too.

Only in America would complete freaks like this with zero respect for the environment be lauded as a good example.

expatinscotland · 11/05/2008 00:24

She had been advised by OBs not to have anymore and had trouble finding an OB to deliver her 17th.

She also deliberately formula feeds from a young age in order to fall pregnant again.

edam · 11/05/2008 00:28

I wonder how long we will have to wait before the first misery-lit allegedly autobiographical work from one of the kids complaining about what hell it was to grow up in such a big family...

expatinscotland · 11/05/2008 00:28

It could be a while if the Duggars have done their job of indoctrinating and brainwashing their kids well.

WillyWonka · 11/05/2008 01:14

Aside from the many issues that arise from bringing 18 children into the world, giving them all with the same initial is just bloody stupid and rather unfair. Imagine all the post addressed to "J Duggar" that will need to be opened to find out who it might be for, meaning that they won't even manage a degree of privacy with written correspondence. I find that quite sad.

As for a name, how about Johnny - as in rubber.

beforesunrise · 11/05/2008 09:26

i feel faint. 18 kids- why? why? why???????????????????

it must be either like a circus in there or else they run one of those scary disciplinarian verging on despotic households.

and that's even before you start thinking about the fact that all the kids have names beginning with J so they won't stand out! WTF????? do everything you can to erase their individuality before they can even think?

sorry- this all makes me slightly uneasy

kittywise · 11/05/2008 11:09

I suspect that there are many parents of 2 children who do a much worse job of raising their kids than the duggars.