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the duggers are having number 19!

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heather1980 · 02/09/2009 11:04

they have announced the arrival of no 19 in march 2010 omg

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Adryath · 04/09/2009 22:08

So the mother and daughter in law are having a baby at the same time are they? Oooohh, no one saw that one coming did they...?

So, just like his parents the eldest son and his wife are now jumping on the TV gravy train too and are becoming part of the "show". If they didn't keep the circus going by making the family bigger and bigger they'd have nothing new for the programme makers to go on.

One programme would be more than enough to gain an insight into their dreary lives to see how many tins of spam they got through in a week and how many loads of washing they did.

Clearly, from that point, further novelty value would only be generated by the children producing their own children too (along with their human sausage machine of a mother of course). Even her churning ever more babies out on her own is pretty tedious when all is said and done.

I confidently predicted the last time the mother popped one out that the next time she did so (for there was always going to be a next time) it would be timed to coincide with the daughter in law's first pregnancy.

Some of those daughters are of child bearing age now too. In fact some of them must be considered well past marriageable age in the Bible Belt.

Once again, I confidently predict that soon there will be 3 of them pregnant at the same ttime. Their TV contract is safe for some years to come but I think they all know that already {wink}

zazen · 04/09/2009 23:05

I didn't see any books around except The Book.

Or any desks for studying on... just lectures about the Bible....

Bible belt life isn't my cuppa, but having 19 kids was perfectly normal historically when women had their first babies late teens and early 20 and went on the have one every year or every two years for 20 years.

Of course a lot of women and babies died in childbirth then too, and that was contraception / family planning of a kind.

estar · 25/09/2009 10:51

Adryath, it must have been hard for them for the first fourteen children with no TV cameras around or glamorous film star lifestyles, eh? Is that why they pushed for the next few kids, so they'd get noticed? Thankgoodness the Discovery Channel came and changed their lives by....oh no wait, it didn't change their lives, did it? Same house, same lifestyle, same values.

So.....maybe they did it for love??

SausageRocket · 25/09/2009 10:56

estar, they did get a bigger house. their old one was teeny, only had about 4 beds for 16 of them!

SausageRocket · 25/09/2009 11:05

They did it for God.

I did PMSL though at the slop food they feed the kids.

Yes feeding 20 3x a day must be a tricky but they don't have to make vile 'casseroles' with tinned processed craptastic food all the time. I didn't see evidence of a veg patch or anything on any of their programmes. They have shedloads of land and shedloads of free labour (no pun intended) so why not grow a portion of your own food ? It would be educational for the kids as part of their HE programme, cost a lot less and they would eat more healthily. Not rocket science

SausageRocket · 25/09/2009 11:10

after all, there were no 'Tater tots' in the Garden of Eden, were there ?

trellism · 25/09/2009 11:13

I agree, sausage, I would set them to work too. Why not?

You could have your own thriving market gardening business within a year.

artichokes · 25/09/2009 11:17

I glimpsed a bit of the show when she had a c-section for number 18. The doctor said her uterus was dangerously thin. I fear she is putting children 1 - 18 in danger of growing-up without a mum as she is ignoring medical advice.

I lived in the US & knew a few Mormon families. They do live very closed lives with threats of disowning kids who don't follow their teachings and customs. They even have their own universities so often their kids get to adulthood without ever experiencing life outside a Mormon stronghold. The chances of their kids choosing a different life is slim but then, if they are happy in their community, good for them. I would choose the love and support of a large closeknit extended family over a lot of the experiences my freedom has afforded me.

SausageRocket · 25/09/2009 11:18

To be honest the older kids do a lot of work looking after their 'buddy'. Each older kid is assigned a youger sibling to look after (presumably so that good old ma and pa dugger can get back in the sack and onto the job of creating another babydugger), so the dugger parents clearly aren't afraid of getting the kids to muck in.

[miaow]

estar · 25/09/2009 14:56

They had already started building their new house before The Discovery Channel. Right at the end of the building process the Channel did bring in some designer who gave them a few surprises (decorated the bedrooms, added the slide, etc), but it was their own money that built the house in the first place. And they do have a vegetable garden (although why they focus more on their tinned mush bargains than their organic produce, I don't know). And, to clarify, they're not Mormons, just Southern Baptists, who are not as strict (they don't disown each other!).

Okay, fine, I admit it - I've read their book!

sarah293 · 25/09/2009 15:02

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