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pipi_k

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28. Same here

Fri Mar 30, 2012, 09:47 AM

Mar 2012

I don't delight in what happened to them.

I almost said I have no emotion, but that's not true. In some ways, I'm a bit disgusted that people who already have 19 kids are capitalizing on this "tragedy" while countless couples out there can't even have one child and are so anxious to have a child that they would do just about anything to have one, even going so far as to adopt one and love it as their own.

One young couple I knew years ago (worked with the husband) built a gorgeous home and were trying unsuccessfully to have biological children to fill it. They were on the verge of mortgaging/selling their brand new home to adopt a child if the fertility treatments continued to be unsuccessful. I left the company and never did find out what they did.

The Duggars don't register on my pity-meter...

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The Duggars Get Terrible News on '19 Kids & Counting' [Video] [View all] Turbineguy Mar 2012 OP

Not to be insensitive or indelicate... hlthe2b Mar 2012 #1

Darn! I thought they were being told their show was cancelled. woodsprite Mar 2012 #2

I think it happened several months ago in real life, but just aired on TV this week. Lucy Goosey Mar 2012 #6

I hope they investigate her and find out what she did to cause that LynneSin Mar 2012 #3

The doctors actually warned her cyglet Mar 2012 #4

Next time it could be her and not the unborn child LynneSin Mar 2012 #5

But, but, don't you read the Bible? Arugula Latte Mar 2012 #9

If they adopted enough, they could change the show to "19 kids x 2" n/t woodsprite Mar 2012 #12

Mother Nature pipi_k Mar 2012 #7

the Duggars are disgusting JitterbugPerfume Mar 2012 #8

I fail to find any emotions on this. Ikonoklast Mar 2012 #10

yes, the Duggars are disgusting. But the "hints" of schadenfreude here that a woman... MiddleFingerMom Mar 2012 #11

This isn't tragic Goblinmonger Mar 2012 #14

That's classless Renew Deal Mar 2012 #19

What did I say that is wrong? Goblinmonger Mar 2012 #21

What's tragic is that some responders seem to be delighting in their grief. kcass1954 Mar 2012 #20

I'm not delighting in their grief. Goblinmonger Mar 2012 #22

Same here pipi_k Mar 2012 #28

I'm not delighted, I'm disgusted by their overbreeding Taverner Mar 2012 #24

The Duggars believe that overpopulation is a myth hamsterjill Mar 2012 #13

They have too many children Taverner Mar 2012 #15

Who are you to say they have too many? Renew Deal Mar 2012 #18

As a citizen of Planet Earth, a planet with a limited amount of resources, that's who Taverner Mar 2012 #23

As long as they afford all those kids, RebelOne Mar 2012 #26

That they are being lucratively EmeraldCityGrl Mar 2012 #16

This is why I posted this Turbineguy Mar 2012 #25

But, but, but, EmeraldCityGrl Mar 2012 #27

Thank you! hamsterjill Mar 2012 #29

This is old, but it is still horrible news Renew Deal Mar 2012 #17