16 Children

[ste_noni]

I'm watching this TLC show on that family with 16 kids. Apparently, before they became well known (when the most recent baby girl was born) they were working on building a 7000 sq. ft. house.

I don't personally understand the desire to have 16 kids, but if you were going to have that many kids, this is the kind of family you would want to be in. The kids all appear to be loved, well-cared-for, clean, and smart. Even the 8 year old is helping build the house!

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[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, very little of that came across on the show. I guess I still feel like everyone's choices should be valid, as long as no one is being harmed. Perhaps I feel this way because I grew up with a lot of families like that. NO one had 16 kids, but a lot of them did home schooling and lived sort of "off the grid". I guess they seemed extreme to me, but not harmful, so I don't always get strong reaction. As I said to Bev below, I'd like to see if they family is as loving and accepting if one of the kids some day makes a choice the parents don't like. That would be important, I think, in seeing if they really practice what they preach.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see if they family is as loving and accepting if one of the kids some day makes a choice the parents don't like

That would definitely be interesting!

Like I said, I loved the building the house bit, it's just having seen the other show, it made me kinda wonder if any of the older girls might've wanted to do more of the housebuilding, would they have been allowed?

Being Catholic, the "16 kids" part doesn't freak me out nearly so much as the rest of it! Partly just because if I had that many kids I can't IMAGINE trying to home-school them! I'd be all for saying "I'ma get my taxes worth, send them to public school and get them out of the house for a few hours!!" Not that homeschooling isn't a valid choice, just...eek!