I was reading the news and came across an article that struck me as somewhat strange:
LITTLE ROCK – An Arkansas couple had a baby daughter Thursday — their 17th child and seventh girl — and the pair say they’re still not ready to give it a rest.
Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at a hospital in Rogers, Arkansas, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar said in an interview.
“We’d love to have more,” Michelle said, referring to baby girls. “We love the ruffles and lace.”
Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in a 7,000-square-foot (650-square-meter) home in Tontitown. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are taught at home.
The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old.
“We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him,” said Jim Bob Duggar, a former state representative. “We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well.”
Jennifer joins siblings: Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2.
Michelle Duggar said she started feeling contractions Wednesday night and went to the hospital at about 5 a.m. Thursday.
“It actually went fast,” she said. “I guess once I started progressing, it went within 30 minutes.”
The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable television’s Discovery Health Network. The next special, the Duggar Family Album, is scheduled to air next month, Jim Bob Duggar said.
Among the “fun facts” listed on Discovery Health’s Web page devoted to the Duggars: A baby has been born in every month except June; the Duggars have gone through an estimated 90,000 diapers, and Michelle has been pregnant for 126 months — or 10.5 years — of her life. (MSN, LINK)
Ok………
I got to thinking. Isn’t this being a tad selfish? I recall another family I saw on a show a while back who has like I think 12 or 13 kids. They had started out with 3 of their own I believe, but ADOPTED the rest. Maybe I am just being mean, and in this case I don’t mean to, but having 17 children on purpose, because you can is kind of strange. Somebody actually took the time to research this a step further, maybe out of disbelief as well, and as it said in the article above…..she was pregnant for 126 months or….. about 10.5 years of her life. WTF????? All these dang kids that are orphans…..all these kids out there that need love…..hell…..I’m cussin….but hell!……Why?? What are they trying to accomplish here? Legacy? Guiness Book of World Records? 9 wow….10…Fine….11…ALRIGHT! But damn 17????
Love? Hell naw! Give each other a card and stick a dollar in it! Hell, 17 dollars! Not make 17 kids! Wait. Stop It. What if she left him and filed for child support??????????????????LOL! Homedude would just have to give up the ghost right now. That or “claim” they ain’t his and go missing. I’d hate to be her if he was caught with another woman…… Man…..Maury Povich would have to make a home visit. HA!
Once she stops , if ever, I’d hate to be around her when post-partum sets in….Maybe husbandry should send her to Iraq….I bet she’ll find Osma Bin Laden and all his extended family and by the time she’s done , Iraq will be looking like the background of the Teletubbies……..
And them fighting people WILL be livin in Harmony……..Insurgents you ask? HA! She ate em’ ! After that breakfast, her next quest will be North Korea, Oh….she’ll find any nuclear anything she’d eat that too…Take that like poppin pills and that would be like taking an Alka-Seltzer after all that heartburn and indigestion she got from Iraq. Man!
On the real though, I am truly in disbelief. WHat does that mean for the rest of us and our kids? There won’t be any jobs because they all got connections….once one gets in then …..DAMN! Here my daughter is tryna get her foot in the door and then here come #8,790, bumpin my daughter out the way due to her brother, #3,765 having connections with the corporate part of the company. If you can’t beat em’ join em’. Maybe she should have 50 of them. So she can put one in each state, when they are old enough. What’s worse…..their pops was an Arkansas Rep. Watch. Just Watch. They are gonna get “recognized” for this mess. Hell they already have…..*sigh* I guess this is what we get when we ask for some different than seeing and hearing about……
Take it Easy……
