Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar welcomed the newest addition to their family: their 17th - seventeenth! - child.
Oh, and two more things:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/08/03/17.kids.ap/index.html - Thanks David R!
And after Jennifer Danielle was born Thursday morning, her parents already were talking about having more children.
"We'd love to have more," Michelle Duggar said, adding that the girls are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family. "We love the ruffles and lace."
Oh, and two more things:
All of Jennifer's siblings also have names that start with J. They are: Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2.
Among the "fun facts" listed on Discovery Health's Web page devoted to the Duggars: A baby has been born in every month except June; the family has gone through about 90,000 diapers, and Michelle Duggar has been pregnant for 126 months -- or 10.5 years -- of her life.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/08/03/17.kids.ap/index.html - Thanks David R!
Jim Bob and Michelle, hey if you want to have more kids, here's just a thought, QUIT SCREWING AND GO ADOPT!!!! The world doesn't need anymore of your gene pool and the kids in the adoption system really need good homes. Damn Jimbo, give the lady's vagina a rest! :D
Just keep churning out more of your own!
This feels like the work of kooky religious people (since they are all home schooled) or just a selfish gimmick ("let's see how many kids we can have - and have their name start with J!").
I don't think this kind of behavior should be encouraged- there's no special skill in getting pregnant.
This planet needs fewer people - not more.
BTW, using over 90,000 diapers in ONE FAMILY doesn't seem very environmentally friendly.
No worries about the 90,000 diapers; I'd hazard to guess that with 17 kids they probably don't use disposables. We used cloth diapers for two kids, and while not terribly pleasant to deal with, we were encouraged by knowing we weren't sending plastic-wrapped crap to sit in a landfill for years.
and I agree 100% with ChrisM70
VAGINA: It's not a clown car.
Thanks for that one......
"I noticed that your country is dangerously unpopulated" - Apu Nahasapeemapetilan from The Simpsons.
ZING!
And, as B said, you have to wonder what wires got crossed in this woman's brain. She's probably compensating for some other area of her life.
Absolutely irrelevant statement. His pension [if indeed he gets one] would be the same if he had NO children.
BTW, I am ALL FOR ADOPTION! My wife and I are starting the process to become licensed to adopt, and plan to do so from the domestic foster system. That doesn't mean I can't also see the tremendous joy and blessing that having a large family of biological children can [and should] bring. It simply doesn't happen this way for some couples, and they are the ones who can help society by adopting. If every family was like the Duggars, there would be NO UNWANTED/ABUSED/WAITING children anyway [apart from those orphaned through the death of loving parents].
Society is sick, Christ is the answer, and the Duggar family is healthy!
Boy am I in for it now....
;)
(sorry I used to live in a mormon town and have known many kids from families just like this one)
http://imageigloo.com/images/9286duggarssuck.JPG
the circled bumpersticker says "Evolution is a Lie" (kinda backs up my previous comment huh?)
and naturally the middle one is a bush/cheney sticker
oh yeah and this one is on digg now too
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Family_Welcomes_17th_Child
Somebody has to keep the country from turning completely Moslem.
Using "J" names seems okay for the first 3 or 4, but starts getting a little creepy. Which one will they name Jesus?
They obviously don't believe in birth control - sinful stuff. Someone should take them to that condom fashion show in China.
As for the population thing... It has been proven that for a population to not deminish, each family must have AT LEAST 2.11 kids. Right now in America and Europe each family is having on average 1.0 to 1.8. So why aren't these countries going extinct? Be cause Muslims are having 8.1... Yes, 8.1 kids per family. By 2039 France will be a Muslim republic at this rate. I hope like crazy that more people will be like the duggars.
I know 4 families of over 15 people and love each one. I plan on having a busload of kids also.
Good bye!