Comments on: A Quiverfull Family Expands A Bit More…

By: Polly

Polly — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:24:13 +0000

I do think that much of the Quiverfull lifestyle is shocking and totally against what I personally value, but until I see a reason to look down on the Duggar family in particular, I don’t want to cast judgment on them. As long as they’re healthy, happy, valuing each individual, and good members of society… I have no beef.

Coulnd’t have said it better myself. Hence, the blockquote.

By: Sephia

Sephia — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:40:54 +0000

It is fairly common place and even the movie “Father of the Bride 2″ showed this. They only had 2 kids, with a large gap between the oldest and youngest, the oldest already married and they reveal daughter is pregnant. Days later mom announces she’s surprisingly pregnant as well. The niece/nephew aunt/uncle are pretty much the same age, born on the same day.

I am an Atheist though, and have 7 kids with plans on having at least one more in ht e near future. We just love children and want to help balance out the religious retards with our open minded, free thinking brood.

The religious right will grow faster and stronger if the non-religious sect slow or stop breeding.

Just my 2¢ worth though.

By: CJDeak

CJDeak — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:24:10 +0000

I’m 18, my sister is 34, and when we go out together, we get mistaken for mother and son. Her daughter, my neice, is 14, and is often mistaken for my sister. My sister and I have the same parents, but she was born 16 years earlier. It is odd though

By: teammarty

teammarty — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:26:45 +0000

Doesn’t sound that different from some of the catholic families I grew up with. 10, 12 would be common. Theer was one family that was at 16 when I graduated. They’d giv up sex for lent, fuck on Easter night, get pregnant, give up sex for lent and so on. They did everything in shifts, eat, bathe, do laundry, everything.

By: GullWatcher

GullWatcher — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:09:41 +0000

It’s not that odd to have an aunt or uncle the same age as the niece or nephew, and it doesn’t have to mean a large family. Due to second and third marriages, it’s common in my family, but there are usually only two or three kids per family, mostly half-siblings. They just happen to be about 15-20 years apart.

What really makes me wonder about this is the ‘god’s will’ bit. If their god did exist, they think he’s weaker than contraception? That’s pretty pitiful.

By: AnonyMouse

AnonyMouse — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:29:25 +0000

This also isn’t too uncommon in the church where I come from. While only a few of the (contraceptophobic) families in the church have anywhere close to eighteen kids, many families have between five and eight, but – as others have described – have significant gaps between the youngest and the oldest (for various reasons, from failure to conceive to stillbirth).

Not that it isn’t pretty messed up. Even as a Christian, I thought that families who refused to use birth control were being excessive. After all, I and three of my siblings (two sadly deceased) were conceived despite the use of birth control. If you’re not even trying to prevent conception, how are you supposed to know that God really wanted you to have that kid? Maybe he just didn’t care whether you had it or not, in which case you would be saving yourself the strain of additional births.

But then, I might be biased, because these contraceptophobic woman also have a nasty history of dying in childbirth.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:19:46 +0000

Nah, it’s pretty fucked up. The whole family is pretty fucked up. My youngest aunt is a year younger than I am. Her mother (my grandmother) was a very fucked up person.

By: Cole

Cole — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:10:52 +0000

My oldest neice is only a year younger than me, and some of my neices children are older than some of my children. So I’m not bothered by that.

I’m not a fan of the Duggars. However, it’s more because of their extremism and parenting techniques than anything else. I feel there came a point where it was less and less about the love of their children for them, and more and more about the spotlight and money they were receiving because of their children.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:18:07 +0000

“We have committed leaving that area up to God as far as our family size,” he said.

Josh, dude, if God really wants you two to be preggers, all the birth control in the world won’t matter, right? I think someone doesn’t reallllllly believe in that whole Mary was a virgin thing, eh?

As to the family thing, its certainly not MY really small family, and I think its a little weird, but its practically the norm where I work.

By: stogoe

stogoe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:41:53 +0000

Count me among the “not that weird”, as well. It hasn’t happened in my generation or my parent’s generation, but my grandfather was raised with his younger uncle.