Duggars have 18th child

[juuule]

www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2008/dec/19/duggars-babies

holey moley! She makes you look like an amateur Juuule hehehehe

How the heck do you support 18 children?

By declaring your family a church and thus becoming exempt from paying tax.

seriously?

Yep. It's bedtime here but I'll try and dig out a link tomorrow.

According to their website they built their own home and are debt free. Both parents are estate agents and all their childrens names begin with the letter J, including Jinger (?)

Can anyone shed any light to me on why all the children's names begin with 'J' I'd be hard pushed thinking up 18 names without giving myself a restriction on which ones I can choose from

they called a child Jinger!?!

fair play to them if they support themselves, it's an allegedly free country an all, but my god her fanjo must be like a bucket

you sell your stories to the press, parade them in front of camera for reality tv and yes make your family a church so u dont pay tex.

A mere novice, me, Sorky

Is the 'J' thing because the dad's name starts with 'J'?

Considering she's had 18 children and the baby couldn't have been much more than 1 day old and post cs, she looks blooming well in that picture.

No no Juuule that pic is of last year when she had her 17th child, I think the 18th has tipped her over the edge and she looks like cack like the rest of us

she does look very perky for 17 though.

I'm honestly not sure I could find 18 names never mind give them all the same initial letter. It's been hard enough choosing 4 tbh.

Oh, didn't read the caption underneath

"I want their house www.duggarfamily.com/photos.html" - but without all those kids, a couple but 18

How on earth they manage their time baffles me, and he works.

There's no way they're the biggest family in the world, 18 is a lot but when I was a child in Ireland I knew families bigger than that. Isn't there a Finnish family with 28 or something?

I bet that the older children do most of the work, the early years must have tough though.

That's what I thought.
I told ds2 about this and he now wants me to have 14 more children ...

I saw an article in Marie-Claire about Finnish families. They were all farming families, and frankly I think that's the only way you could possibly support them properly.

They used J names because that's what they started off doing with the first few then they didn't want to stop in case each child was the last and would be the only one with a different letter name. (I watched the programme once )

I went to a school reunion a few years ago and one woman there had 11 (she now has 12). She is a farmer's wife, I think it's probably easier if you have a farm as there is plenty of space and useful activity for the children. I shudder to think how much it must be costing to clothe, feed and educate them all though.

I went to school with some-one who was one of 22 children. There were a few pairs of twins in that lot, though!

Dad was one of 16 (15th) and loved it but I notice

A) none of them had more than 3 themselves

B)none of the older girls bar one (and the older girls raised the amaller ones) have any kids at all

C) 50% of them had no kids at all

So it can't have been all roses (esp on a grim estate with an alie dad and bed ridden mum)

Hwever the duggers- well if they pay and are happy then good on them I guess. She must be a better woman than I, I struggle with 4

I know someone with 13 who home educates them all.
I thought the Duggar Home looked lovely - and so clean! God knows what their electrcity bill is like though with all those ovens and freezers and wotnot.
No TV though!

It would probably be a relief not having a TV because you would be spared the constant tinny sound in the background, and fights about channels, also the advertising.

I cannot believe they would give all those kids the same initial!!?!!
What a PITA trying to identify the correct post. Really impractical decision.
Also, will be hard to maintain your own identity within a family that size without having such close similarities in names.
They homeschool them all too. Wow. Her homeschooling with 18 of them is bigger than either of my children?s classes in their school
Here I am struggling with the decision whether or not to go from 2 to 3 children...

lucky!

Maybe they don't want their own identity, maybe they are proud to be a Duggar child, hell doesn't look like they are doing much wrong does it ?