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skyline5k

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Posted: May 12, 2008 - 09:11 AM
Post subject: 18 kids? Bloody hell!

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — 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.
‘‘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.
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 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.

That's just too much. What could possibly possess someone to want to be perpetually pregnant, not to mention the environmental impact of reproducing themselves THAT MANY TIMES. Rolling Eyes

Sorry for formatting. I copy/pasted off a pdf of my hometown newspaper, www.timesobserver.com. These people are NOT in my hometown..

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Michael

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Posted: May 12, 2008 - 09:22 AM

Check out the movie Idiocracy...

sbergman

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Posted: May 12, 2008 - 09:31 AM

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What could possibly possess someone to want to be perpetually pregnant

Religious zeal. Usually these no birth control types also have the benefit of being "no sex, please" types. Apparently the Duggars like to do it. I just hope the show covers how they find the time and privacy. Wink

Michael

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Posted: May 12, 2008 - 09:58 AM

I think the world record is 69 kids from the same mother, someone in Russia.
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The greatest officially recorded number of children produced by a mother is 69 by the first of the 2 wives of Feodor Vassilyev (b 1707-fl. 1782), a peasant from Shuya, 150 miles east of Moscow. In 27 confinements she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. The children, were born in the period c. 1725-1765.

* 1 year ago

Source(s):
Guiness book

oh_the_darkness

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Posted: May 12, 2008 - 10:38 AM

Michael wrote:

Check out the movie Idiocracy...

A whole new series of 'OW! MY BALLS!!'

Laughing

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PhatAV8r

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Posted: May 13, 2008 - 02:21 PM

Who gives a darn how many kids they have if they take care of them? they have a 7000 sq ft (777 sq m) house, they are both real estate brokers, and obviously the kids are well dressed, well educated, and functional.

Maybe too much is one for some, 18 just right for others. In a day and age when many choose not to have ANY kids, why go off on someone who wants them, raises them without welfare assistance, and is doing some good in the world.