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  • #76
    Re: the duggar family

    Originally posted by DrWahoo
    But if your are going to abuse or kill the kids like the Andrea Yates chick then thats just ungodly.
    She wasn't ungodly. She was mentally ill.

    I wouldn't say the Duggar's motives are entirely altrusitic. They certainly participate in a church that encourages large families, and believe they are following god's will in their choice not to use birth control.

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    • #77
      Re: the duggar family

      To debate Ungodly vs Mentally Ill:

      Definition of Ungodly:
      ungodly
      One entry found for ungodly.
      Main Entry: un·god·ly
      Pronunciation: -lE
      Function: adjective
      1 a : denying or disobeying God : IMPIOUS, IRRELIGIOUS b : contrary to moral law : SINFUL, WICKED

      She was mentally ill, but what she did was still ungodly aka morally wrong.
      Mom to three wild women.

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      • #78
        Re: the duggar family

        Okay - by definition, yes, ungodly. But in context of DrWahoo's post where she's comparing one person who seemingly CAN handle 17 children, vs. another woman with severe mental illness who was unable to handle 5 and tragically killed them, the use of 'ungodly' appeared to me to be a more judgemental (as in Biblically judgemental) statement instead of acknowledging Andrea Yates' mental illness. There is a difference between a person who would deliberately choose to murder someone, and a woman who was so ill she thought God was telling her to kill the children.

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        • #79
          Re: the duggar family

          Originally posted by Pollyanna
          Originally posted by Jane
          There is a difference between a person who would deliberately choose to murder someone, and a woman who was so ill she thought God was telling her to kill the children.
          Who was pushed in that direction by her a#@hole husband. :run:

          True dat.
          Rebecca, wife to handsome gyn-onc, and mom 4 awesome kiddos: 8,6,4, and 2.

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          • #80
            Re: the duggar family

            I'm sorry, I wasn't really calling Andrea Yates ungodly, her act of killing her kids was ungodly. But I was really saying if you know that you have a mental illness or emotional problems that will prevent you from taking care of the kids, then I think it is ungodly to bring children in this world or at least have a full time chaperon. And I don't think having 20 kids or not is a godly or ungodly. I in fact am annoyed by people who think that just because a woman has a uterus they should have tons of kids.

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            • #81
              Re: the duggar family

              preggers with #18!
              ~shacked up with an ob/gyn~

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              • #82
                Re: the duggar family

                :thud:
                Sandy
                Wife of EM Attending, Web Programmer, mom to one older lady scaredy-cat and one sweet-but-dumb younger boy kitty

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                • #83
                  Re: the duggar family

                  Discovery Health has this:
                  http://health.discovery.com/convergence ... -poll.html

                  I hope some of those aren't the names actually being considered. Julianna is leading in the poll. Despite being a name destined for greatness (ahem! :fans: ), they already have a Johanna, Joy-Anna, and Jana. I know people joke about "running out of J names," but seriously, there are a lot of J names out there, find one with a different ending! And Jessica should be off the table because they already have a Jessa.

                  And 17% of people picked Jack, even though they already have a Jackson!

                  I'm kind of surprised they don't already have a Joel or especially a Jacob.
                  Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
                  Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

                  “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
                  ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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                  • #84
                    Re: the duggar family

                    Being where I am in my life, the thought of being pregnant for the 18th time (give or take a couple - did she have any multiples?), just makes me want to fall over.

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                    • #85
                      Re: the duggar family

                      Originally posted by Jane
                      Being where I am in my life, the thought of being pregnant for the 18th time (give or take a couple - did she have any multiples?), just makes me want to fall over.
                      Yep....at 39 weeks all I can say is .

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                      • #86
                        Re: the duggar family

                        They were on the Today show this morning when they announced this. I thought it was very obvious that the oldest boy was NOT happy there was going to be another one.
                        Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.

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                        • #87
                          Re: the duggar family

                          and I looked it up - she's due 1/1/09. She's not terribly far along to be making national announcements, IMO. Although clearly she's got a good track record!

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                          • #88
                            Re: the duggar family

                            I've officially decided I am disgusted by how the Duggar parents exploit their children for attention.

                            If they have 60 children and can take care of them and her body can handle it then I say more power to them.

                            But, I am sickened by how Michelle Duggar appears to have some serious issues namely: an unhealthy desire for attention (bordering on exhibitionism imo) and her willingness to have her children be the vehicle for HER fame.
                            Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
                            With fingernails that shine like justice
                            And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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                            • #89
                              Re: the duggar family

                              The thing I can't stand about the Duggars is how much the older kids take care of the younger ones. I really don't see that much "normal kid stuff" going on. I think it's great to have kids doing chores, etc., but when kids become the parent figure, that's a problem IMO.
                              Peggy

                              Aloha from paradise! And the other side of training!

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                              • #90
                                Re: the duggar family

                                Josh & Anna Duggar! - Josh, one of the 17 Duggar children, married Anna Keller in Florida this past weekend. Click here to see their inspirational (ha) website.

                                Anna will move to Arkansas to be part of the Duggar army. As you know, Michelle Duggar is knocked up with their 18th child. Michelle announced on "Today" this morning that she's having a girl. She should name her Jezebel, Jo-Mama or J #18. Their new reality show "17 Kids and Counting" premieres on TLC tonight at 10pm.
                                http://www.ja20.com/
                                ~shacked up with an ob/gyn~

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