Michelle Duggar Pregnant: How Long Until The Duggars Take Over The World?

[XemaSab]

Source: Huffington Post

The Duggar family of TLC fame just announced that they are expecting their 19th child. Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar currently have 18 children ranging from 0 to 21 years old and a grandchild on the way, making it pretty clear that their kids intend to follow in their pregnancy footsteps.

The Duggars live in northwest Arkansas and can be seen on TLC's hit "17 Kids and Counting" "18 Kids and Counting" "19 Kids and Counting." Assuming they make it to 20 kids and stop, and assuming each of their kids have the same amount of children (which are both big 'ifs') how long until those with Dugger blood take over America?

After the next generation of Duggars breeds at this rate, there will be 400 members of the clan (not counting the husbands and wives that married in). The third generation will have 8,000 members, the fourth will have 160,000, and the fifth will have 3.2 million...more than five times the population of Vermont. This would mean...

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/michelle-duggar-pregnant_n_273616.html

[Kerrytravelers]

1. These people need seperate bedrooms.

[pipi_k]

13. Yeah...in separate houses. In separate states....

on opposite sides of the country.

And a condom put on the telephone whenever they want to talk to each other.


Can't be too careful...


seriously, these people are irresponsible and selfish.

[Hugin]

2. Anybody have the motivational poster handy?

You know the one. :eyes:

[TheDebbieDee]

7. Are clown cars the subject of the motivational poster ?

Just asking........

[Hugin]

9. Yep, that'd be the one.

You've seen it?

[Junkdrawer]

15. This?

[Hugin]

16. ...

Ha! Yeah...

[ThatsMyBarack]

17. That really SHOULD say....

"UTERUS: It's not a clown car."

The vagina's just the door.

[XemaSab]

37. The worst part about that poster?

She only had 14 then. x(

[NickB79]

43. As my mother-in-law said so elegantly

"Does her husband strap a 2x4 to his ass so he doesn't fall in?"

[Raine]

44. LOL

:rofl: Good one! :thumbsup:

[ipfilter]

51. Like throwing a hotdog

down a hallway.

[rurallib]

3. delete - I should learn to read

[Hugin]

4. There was nothing wrong with what you posted.

Not at all.

[brendan120678]

5. So the youngest will be younger than his/her nephew/niece...

I have that situation in my extended family. It's kind of funny, actually. The two grew up more like cousins than uncle/nephew.

[Turbineguy]

6. As long as they are paid

They'll breed.

But if I were them, I'd start thinking in terms of "endowment".

[cbdo2007]

11. Didn't they have most of the kids before they had the show?

And they've already got plenty of money, so I doubt their entire reason for having kids was to make money off them.

[LibDemAlways]

8. She is 44. You'd think her doctors would have told her enough

is enough. While it's certainly her life and her decision, you have to figure she already more than has her hands full.

Hope the menopause god is taking note!

[gatorboy]

20. They have. She has chosen to ignore their advice

and leave it in God's hands.

[LibDemAlways]

22. I have an ultra conservative Catholic aunt who thinks

everything that happens is God's will and fulfilling God's plan. She uses that line to justify everything - including why there shouldn't be universal health care. (If God wants a person to have health care, he'll see to it that that person gets it. If he doesn't come through, it wasn't meant to be.)

When I asked her if God gave people brains so they could think for themselves, she said the purpose of a brain is to figure out what God wants. No use arguing with those types. That said I wish the Duggars well and hope, for their sake, that this baby is healthy and doesn't get lost in the crowd.

[Locrian]

29. if there was a devil...

everything that happens is God's will and fulfilling God's plan. She uses that line to justify everything - including why there shouldn't be universal health care. (If God wants a person to have health care, he'll see to it that that person gets it. If he doesn't come through, it wasn't meant to be.)

When I asked her if God gave people brains so they could think for themselves, she said the purpose of a brain is to figure out what God wants. No use arguing with those types. That said I wish the Duggars well and hope, for their sake, that this baby is healthy and doesn't get lost in the crowd.

if there was a devil, that would be exactly what his followers would believe....

[Matariki]

39. By that logic, that fact that birth control is cheap and readily availble

should give her a clue.

[LibDemAlways]

40. She'd argue that birth control is a man-made evil and those

who use it are going against God's will. She's a big proponent of "natural" birth control - or, as it's more commonly known, pregnancy.

[Matariki]

41. In that case does your aunt do 'God's will' by living naked in a cave?

on nuts and berries and raw squirrels? ;-)

[chemenger]

42. And what if God wants us to drink beer, be happy, and use condoms?

:shrug:


Here's to # 19 ... :toast: :beer:

[HughBeaumont]

10. Actually . . . that is their very intent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

[Subdivisions]

12. There is already a thread on this. n/t

[spotbird]

14. She coulnd't stand her

daughter-in-law with the youngest. Eventually, nature will cut her off, since her own common sense won't.

[dugaresa]

18. While I wouldn't do it myself, I will not judge her choice to have another child

Do I think it is crazy? Yes.
Would I do it? Never.

But, that said I believe she loves those kids and I will respect her religious and birthing beliefs.

I just wonder about how those kids will do as they get older. I just hope for the kid's sake she lives long enough to see her youngest grow up, I don't think having so many kids helps a woman's body.

[RaleighNCDUer]

25. Never mind that we are pushing on seven BILLION people on this planet

and most of those children, and their generation, will live to see total ecological collapse due to human overpopulation.

it's all good.

[dugaresa]

26. Let's be honest, not many people have the fortitude or the money to do what the Duggars are doing

I don't think the world population explosion is due entirely to these quiverful people.

If anything tampering with nature via medical science and agri-science is what has allowed the population to grow out of control.

Vaccines
Medical breakthroughs
Increased and better food production methods

are all contributing factors.

We have tampered with Evolution and the concept of only the strong surviving.

Controlling/Reducing it ethically is by encouraging couples around the world to only have 1 child, problem with that is that humans aren't easily controlled or convinced or compliant.

Perhaps it is very wrong of me to have had two kids, but I wanted children (don't know why but I did) and so did my spouse and sadly we weren't thinking of the world population issue at the time. We were just thinking about ourselves and our family which is what happens to most folks.

Imagine trying to start a global curriculum in schools that starts around 5th grade to program every young man and woman that they must only have one child and one child only to do their part to help reduce world population. That is what it would take along with taxes and other methods of making any other choice harder on those who do not comply. (I just don't see it happening)

So Mrs. Duggar has her choice and to be blunt it isn't an easy path. There are also 20+ women out there who are infertile and will not have children. Perhaps in some ways, she is using those women's unclaimed child credits? I just don't know.

[RaleighNCDUer]

27. Making excuses for the inexcusable does nothing to hold down the

growth of population.

Insane religionists are MURDERING THE WORLD.

[dugaresa]

31. well just take heart in the high probability that Mrs. Duggar probably can't sneeze or laugh

without peeing her pants.

[RaleighNCDUer]

33. Oh crap.

You made me laugh and feel guilty about it in three seconds.

[Mystayya]

47. Alot of of us have that issue.

And I've only had three children.

[dugaresa]

53. i had on c-section and another natural

but luckily no problems. many friends of mine do however have that issue and only after 2-3 births. I can't imagine how bad off Mrs. D is after 19.

One lady my mom knows had surgery to try and fix the problem after her 4th kid.

[Raine]

45. Her kids will do the same as her

continually give birth, that's their purpose in life. :-(

[peekaloo]

19. they bring to mind Richard Pryor's observation on the Chinese

"somebody's doing some serious fucking....."

[asjr]

21. I just hope they are all Democrats.

[JSK]

23. You're joking, right?

They are the freakiest fundies out there; hardcore Arkansas Repukes. And puke is the operative word.

[asjr]

30. Yes I was being smart alecky.

[wickerwoman]

34. But how many of their kids will rebel?

Both of my parents come from hardcore Catholic families and have five siblings each. Of my ten aunts and uncles, only one is even vaguely religious. The other nine are all atheists with smallish (one or two-kid) families.

Especially the older girls in their family who spent their entire childhood wiping snot and changing diapers for their younger siblings should have no illusions about what large family life is like.

The more real exposure I have to small children, the less desire I have to ever have my own.

I'd bet at least half of their kids don't get married or don't have kids and end up rejecting their parents' fundie world view.

[Thothmes]

46. My Uncle joined the Catholic Church

so he could marry the lady he was dating. They had 11 children. Two of the boys are priests and one girl is a nun. All were educated in the parochial schools, all but one graduated from collage. Excepting the priests and nun, all of the other children are married and have kids of their own.

[shimmergal]

54. Moreover,

several of the boys, at least, may well turn out to be gay.

One of the few solid discoveries about high-order births is that the more older brothers a boy baby has, the more likely his chances of being homosexual.

It's not a birth-order thing, apparently, but something to do with changes in the mother's uterine environment from previous pregnancies. The effect is so pronouced that, theoretically, an 11th son has a 50% chance of being gay. Just read this the other day--yes, it _has_ been authenticated by science. (Sorry, I don't have a link, but I was tracking down another issue related to high-order pregnancies and didn't save this info.)

For the rest of us this might not be a big consideration, but if you're fundies and expecting your progency to out-reproduce the "secular" people, it could come as quite a blow. Not to mention how the poor kids will feel, growing up in a "quiverfull" movement family.?

BTW, if this next baby is a boy, he _will_ be the Duggars' 11th son.

[RaleighNCDUer]

24. Somebody really needs to clue them in on how this is happening. nt

[Doremus]

28. Wonder how many future pyros, kleptos, alcoholics and depressives they're raising?

Self-serve upbringing is usually a boon for the medical profession.

[Javaman]

32. Well, if you use geometric progression, about two weeks. nt

[DebbieCDC]

35. This is beyond sick -- I have no other words for this disgusting tribe

[Javaman]

36. Personally, I welcome our Duggar overlords. nt

[Mystayya]

48. What is the proper gift to offer an Overlord?

Flowers? wine? our first born children? Or how about an Obama Chia Pet?

[Javaman]

49. Several cows with a mass milking device. nt

[Cleita]

38. I went to school with a kid from a family of seventeen kids.

The kids did not follow in mom and dad's footsteps and limited their families to one or two kids because they hated never having anything because they were so poor. It's not that dad didn't work. It's just that they would have been a normal working, middle class family, with a couple of kids, but so many kids put them into poverty.

[cherish44]

50. When I was teaching there was a family whose whose parents popped out a kid a year

By the time I left this family had 7 kids, with #8 on the way. I don't think either mom or dad were 30 years old yet. They weren't religious.... they liked to screw apparently and were probably not aware that babies are made that way (not the sharpest knives in the drawer).

[Freddie Stubbs]

52. I grew up in a town with a lot of Catholics

It was not uncommon for kids to have a dozen siblings. The funny thing is, when they grew up, most of them did not have large families like their parents did. The same may hold true for the Dugger children.