Doin’ Time in Erie, PA

in your cupboard, throwing away your pepperoni balls…

1. jerry 5.10.08 / 11am

   What a hateful, bitter person you are! Just as you wouldn’t want anyone to foist his morality upon you, why do you insist upon foisting yours upon her?

   Besides, when evidence points to a likely leveling off in world population in the next century, what are you even talking about?
2. inmate1972 5.10.08 / 12pm

   You’re right, I am bitter and hateful because I believe that if you are going to have children then those children deserve a reasonable amount of your time and attention which is impossible under family dynamics such as those. I am bitter and hateful for believing that children should not have the be raised as surrogate parents for younger siblings which clearly happens under those family dynamics.

   Population growth leveling off? That hardly helps. Population growth occurs primarily in poor countries that can not handle the growth economically, socially or environmentally. This breeds stagnant economies and global security concerns for everyone. Given that most economic models operate on growth instead of sustainability, this only tends to exacerbate the problem. we need a global model that survive on negative population growth.

   So if the Duggar family really sees it as their mission to have a million kids, then here’s a thought: why not adopt?
3. bookstoysgames 5.10.08 / 6pm

   Don’t you think it’s a woman’s right to do whatever she wants with her own body?

   How then, can you condemn her?
4. inmate1972 5.10.08 / 6pm

   I completely and totally support a woman’s right to do with her body as she pleases. That certainly does not mean I have to like it or even reserve judgement. I also happen to believe in freedom of speech.
5. Erie BlogWatch 5.10.08 / 7pm

   Or in other words, “do as I say, not as I do”.

   Yeah, that’ll be the plan.
6. inmate1972 5.10.08 / 8pm

   The cheap and easy response from someone who refused to let people comment on their own blog.

   Again, that pesky freedom of speech issue…
7. TeamKlemm 5.10.08 / 8pm

   I have to agree with one thing, I can’t IMAGINE how they can possibly give these kids enough personalized attention with so many! I mean, I have 2 kids ages 10 and 14 and all I hear ALL DAY LONG is “mom, mom, mom, mom…..”

   And I don’t believe for one second they are both real estate agents…..(my husband and I are both Realtors)….AND they home school all those kids? More like HE is the real estate agent and she probably doesn’t do much more than wrangle kids.

   I just think this is so bizarre…….almost “cult like” to have so many children. Obviously they are doing it out of religious beliefs. And I am a Christian so I have a difficult time saying this but it just seems so wierd to me.

   To each his own I guess. At least they aren’t living off the government! I will give them that!
8. inmate1972 5.10.08 / 8pm

   And I did comment on that in an earlier post: what is it to me if this woman wants to have a million kids? They are a self-sustaining family, I do give them credit for that. But I still do not think that is a healthy way for a child to grow up. I could give a damn about Michelle Duggars, it’s how she so loves whoring her kids out to the media circuit and parading them around as modern day freak show that truly bothers me.
9. Emma 5.10.08 / 9pm

   As I stated in a comment on your original Duggars post, I feel sorry for the kids. Mr. & Mrs. Duggars can do whatever the hell they want - they’re consenting adults - but to have so many kids that they each only get one-half hour of individual attention A MONTH (of course, that was when there were only 17…when there are 18 is that going to get cut down to 15 minutes a month?)and that, as you said, they’re paraded around on television like a modern day circus side show, is pitiful. Anyone else find it odd that the two childfree people are advocating for the kids?

   Mr. & Mrs. Duggars are selfish, irresponsible attention whores as far as I’m concerned. Any making the older children “parent” their younger siblings? Sad. Just really, really sad.
10. TeamKlemm 5.11.08 / 12am

    I agree Emma. I am an only child so I never had to worry about that but I make it very clear to my 14 year old daughter that her younger brother is NOT her child and not HER responsibility. I never paid her to baby sit or even asked her to “baby sit”. If they are left alone together, they are each responsible for thier own actions. I never blame her if he does something wrong because she is NOT his parent!

    Those older children did not sign up for that. They can “parent” when they have kids of their own, NOT because their parents feel it’s necessary to produce a herd.
11. anja 5.11.08 / 5am

    These kids are products to keep the Duggar enterprise going.

    And the family is keeping alive and well that repugnant idea that women were put on this earth to make babies and be slaves to a penis.
12. Laurie 5.11.08 / 6am

    I wonder how many of the kids will grow and choose NOT to be parents once they’re free of mom’s salad shooter of a uterus.
13. inmate1972 5.11.08 / 12pm

    LMFAO!!

    I’m going to have the jingle for the product in my head the entire day now!
14. inmate1972 5.11.08 / 12pm

    Okay. not the original commercial, but nicely coincides with the Quiverfull notion of using your children as “arrows against your enemies”.

    http://www.clipland.com/Live/video/4842
15. Melissa 5.11.08 / 12pm

    I checked out their website. My only comment is the family is quite efficient considering the circumstances. The house is huge, though. I wouldn’t want to know what the bills are like on that baby.

    THAT said…

    Being the grandchild of a family who had 13 children, from the many, many stories recounted from my grandmother and relatives, living was not easy. Especially for the girls. They did raise the younger children. There wasn’t any choice in the matter. That can build character, but destroy a typical childhood.

    I’m one of those lucky only children who didn’t have to worry about changing someone’s diapers. I know some girls drool over the childcare bit from an early age, but not me. Had I grown up in a family like the Duggars’ I think I would have been catching the nearest train and becoming a face on a milk carton. Forced parenthood? No thanks.

    I really enjoy reading the above hateful comments. I can tell they were written by men. If any of those men had to pop 17 children out of their vag (I stole that one from “Juno”), I don’t think they’d be saying that. Why don’t you try it boys? I guarantee you’d stop at one kid!
16. Melissa 5.11.08 / 1pm

    As an aside, every time I think of the Duggars, I think of this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
17. hildigunnur 5.12.08 / 10am

    Melissa, exactly. Plop…
18. girlgriot 5.18.08 / 12am

    (OMG, had forgotten about the Python bit!!)

    Hadn’t heard about the Duggar family. Many of the women who are students in my ESL program come from enormous families … and I notice that none of them have enormous families. Yes, some of them have several kids, which is about 4 too many for my sanity to fathom, but none of the ladies from families of 12, 14, 15 kids has more than six of her own. Gotta be a message in there. Hmm … what could it be? And I’m really distressed by the the Duggars having 400 (oh, I mean 1 children and then making a media circus of their lives. Are they working toward a spot in the history books or something?
19. girlgriot 5.18.08 / 12am

    Funny, why did WordPress turn my parenthetical comment into a smiley? That was supposed to say (oh, I mean 18 ) …
20. inmate1972 5.18.08 / 12pm

    Maybe even WordPress feels facetious every once in a while
21. titus2woman 5.19.08 / 12am

    I love how Mrs. Duggar is so cheerful all the time~sickening sweet even! Through the grapevine it’s said that she is the real deal, and I kinda envy that quality… I think they’ve been gifted a beautiful legacy in their precious children! (((((HUGS)))))) sandi
22. inmate1972 5.19.08 / 1am

    Where I come from, being “gifted” means you ride the short bus.
23. titus2woman 5.20.08 / 3am

    HA HA HA HA! I’ve been chucklin’ ever since I read that~OH LOLOL! (((((HUGS))))) sandi

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