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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[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

I saw that last weekend (while I was enjoying having cable again). I'd previously seen their "15 kids" special. That one focused more on their family, and made them seem a little more creepy and less just pleasantly cheery than the building a house one. But I did enjoy the building a house one--all of them working on it, and seeing the vast quantities in the pantry, and the neat little details they came up with (like the tunnel from the boys' room? So cute!). They're home-schooled and make all their own clothes and are pretty darn religious and Republican, so they kinda freak me out (with the fairly rigid sex roles and the outfits on the girls and so on...). The dad was actually running for Congress (? or possibly just their state government?) last year, I think...

http://www.duggarfamily.com/

[aimeejmc.livejournal.com]

I loved that show! I think that family has a lot of stuff right.

[fufaraw]

These people give me the shuddering wigs for all of their their philosophic, religious, gender-specific and political beliefs.

I believe that anybody who wants to raise a big family can find as many kids as they want already born and in the foster care system who would benefit from a home.

But then, I'm just a commie-pinko tree-hugging liberal.

[(Anonymous)]

I have not seen the show but my grandmother had 16 children, right now there are about 110 relatives. As for what my mom had to say all of them were very loved but she always metion that she had to change dipers and take care of the youngest ones so she promised that she would only had one child and so she did.
Edy