14 Children and Pregnant Again

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

Has anyone seen this show on Discovery Health? These people have 14 kids, including 2 pairs of twins, all 15 and under, and the wife is pregnant again. What the heck is wrong with them?

Right now they're on a shopping trip. They are filling one cart after another, with entire cases of food. The bill was $828.32!!

Oh and they all share 2 bathrooms.

[kikiek]

1. I had to check this out...How do you keep track of em all?

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

2. Yikes

Some people do not believe in contraceptives, or contraceptives and birth control are not permitted by their religious doctrine... that could be a possible explanation...


Or it could be they're psycho and really do want 15 kids... :wtf:

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

4. 4 years before the first kid

So it makes me think their religion came along a little later.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

5. *shrug*

I didn't watch it or anything, so I was just speculating on the info I had :)

[dolo amber]

21. You'd think

anyone hung up on religion that much wouldn't be a couple of horndogs. :D

[AlFrankenFan]

3. Gawd how could they exploit their lives like this on tv?!

I HATE REALITY TV.

</rant off before I explode>

[Lourde_Green]

8. Whell, whaddya know?

Ultra-religous white trash . . .you sure these mouth breathers aren't related to that other specimen that had 8 kids. . .Geez, like the earth doesn't have enough strain. x(

[LynneSin]

31. how else are they going to pay their $1000 food bills

:crazy:

[Mr. Blonde]

6. Those are fertile people. n/t.

[JCMach1]

38. Go POKES!

:)

[JCMach1]

39. They have to be mouth-breathers....

my two beautiful itelligent young girls are all I can handle...

They are definitely HIGH MAINTENANCE!!!

I feel sorry for any future SO's :)

[smirkymonkey]

7. This is the kind of thing that makes me think

forced sterilization may not be such a bad thing after all.

To me, it's a form a child abuse that families who can't even afford to care for ONE child continue to bring multiple children into the world without the slightest consideration for how that child will fare under the circumstances.

[Amaya]

9. She's gotta have stretch marks from hell

:wow:

[kikiek]

10. I'm surprised she goes to the hospital for the births anymore. You'd

think they would just fall out.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

13. Wasn't that a Monty Python sketch?

Every sperm is sacred
Every sperm is great
If a sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate

[kikiek]

17. I don't recall there are so many! Pretty funny. It is either Monty Python

or Pat Robertson.

[realisticphish]

20. let the heathens spill theirs

on the dusty ground
god will make them pay for
each sperm that cant be found

every sperm is useful
every sperm is good
every sperm is needed
in your neighborhood

yep, Monty Python:)

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[MichiganVote]

11. A little too much love from her OB/GYN???

Sorry I just can't take the latest Bushism. LOL

[skooooo]

16. lol....spread the love!

[MichiganVote]

19. All those appointments--I just feel so cheap

[skooooo]

23. how many appointments have you had..

..in the past month??

3?

4?

5?

You should feel cheap!

[MichiganVote]

40. Well not as many as I think I should have had

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Years ago

I saw a news feature about a family in rural Wisconsin that had 22 children. After the film footage showing the assembly-line nature of the family's life, the newscaster commented: "If you've been watching closely, you've probably noticed that only 20 children appear to be living in the family home. That's because the two oldest girls have become nuns."

No kidding!

Who could blame them?

[tigereye]

30. that's pretty funny LOL

[Nikia]

14. There were a couple families like that in my home area

They didn't believe in contraception. For most people, it is too stressful financially and emotionally to have nearly that many children. Some people like large families because it does provide a ready made support network when the children become adults. I think that they should have started adopting children several pregnancies ago and gotten sterilized.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

15. Aha! They're also home schooled

I'm trying to figure out how one mother can effectively school 14 (make that 15) kids

[kikiek]

18. I wonder what he does for a living. Did I miss that?

[NashVegas]

22. With Only Two Bathrooms

those children will learn patience.

If you ask me, the advent of the two + bathroom, 3-or-less children home was the beginning of the downfall of our society.

[I_Hug_Trees]

37. The boys could

pee outside

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

24. Don't worry they are very much in the minority in this country

and what do you propose? Forced sterilization like someone else did in this thread?

My liberalism does not include forcing people to have or not have children. Choice, remember?

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

28. I wasn't proposing anything

But I do think it's irresponsible to have so many children when we're faced with a global population crisis, regardless of how much of a minority they are.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

29. Oh I agree w/you that it is very irresponsible

Mr. Moonbeam and I have one and global resources are one of the reasons we stopped with one.

[UpsideDownFlag]

25. wow. they're not catholic, are they?

or fundies, maybe.

[mitchum]

26. This couple needs some freakin' hobbies

[scarlet_owl]

27. That's pretty sick.

Things like this really make me realize how unfair the world really is. I can't have one child, but they can have fifteen. Nobody has any business bringing that many children into the world these days.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

32. A few words off wisdom for the couple:

STOP HAVING SEX YOU HORNY LUNATICS!

and why the hell is this on TV?

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

33. A few words off wisdom for the couple:

STOP HAVING SEX YOU HORNY LUNATICS!

and why the hell is this on TV?

[Shananigans]

34. Hmm...although I don't agree with it, it *IS* their choice....

Some people just enjoy having and raising children. I believe I know what story you are talking about and in this family the father had a pretty well paying job and they could afford to have these children. Sure things might be a bit tight, but that's just life.

I guess I don't think we should chastise them for having so many kids. My grandparents had about that many and no one said anything back then.

Yes, we DO have to worry about things such as the environment, etc. but what if all 15 of these children grow up to be great environmentalists. I'd rather have THEM in our world than some other yahoo's 2 fundy children.

End of rant.

[PartyPooper]

35. 14 kids is cool. My grandmother was the 13th of 14 kids.

So, I wouldn't be here unless she had been born. My great-grandmother was born in 1861...she was widowed and she died 2 months after I was born. What a great lady she was! Best of all, she was a Missouri Democrat!

:bounce:

[Christof]

36. I think one kid would be too much to have....

let alone 14...:scared:

[ChoralScholar]

41. former Rep. Jim Bob Duggar

(R-Arkansas) like you didn't know that already...

has 14 children. The wife home schools them ALL!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

43. That's who this was about

and I ended up watching it later and it was horribly creepy, IMO.

All of the four girls said when they grow up they want to be a stay at home mom and have 14 kids and such.

The parents talked about finding a "good mate" for each of their kids.

They are very religious but Mr. Moonbeam and I never heard what religion they are. They hold church services in their home with another family that has eight kids.

I kept thinking, "if you REALLY want a big family, have a couple of your own then adopt the rest! Sheesh!!!"

They showed her having her fifteenth and I wondered when they are going to stop. When she enters menopause? UG!!!!

Mr. Moonbeam had nothing but ugly things to say about them that I won't type out here.

[ChoralScholar]

44. oh really? I didn't watch it

just saw it on the Dish Program guide. That figures, for that spotlight hogging pile of crap.

[ChoralScholar]

45. they are Southern Baptist, BTW

but you didn't need me to tell you THAT either.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

46. I honestly didn't know

i thought maybe they were Seventh-Day Adventist, because the mom and the daughters always wore dresses and their hair was reallllly long, like they never cut it. And all their dresses matched. The boys always wore polo shirts and khakis and the colors all matched and matched the girls' dresses, too. The dad always wore a matching polo and khakis.

It was like watching a cult.

He talked about being elected, then losing.

[truthbetold]

42. Oh GOD.

I read that at first as 14 and Pregnant Again.

[MissB]

47. They are freaks

Not because of the number of kids, mind you, but the way that they are raising them. Each child has a younger child to care for. Some of the kids are helping to work on the family home (not a biggie, except for the power tools).

And the names? I'm sorry, but "Jinger"?

If these people were capable of parenting all the children equally, then great. But using the "spare the rod" mentality on that many kids :(

[UrbScotty]

48. My grandma knows someone whose friend had NINETTEEN kids

...One at a time. Not one multiple birth.