It's (still) not a clown car ...
So I'm in the grocery checkout glancing over the impulse buy racks of candy, junk and magazines, and there's the latest People Magazine with a cover story about the Duggars and baby number 19. I glanced through the article briefly, mostly the article was about how the baby was born at 25 weeks, and only weighed a pound. She's in intensive care and the whole family has moved 200 miles to be closer to the hospital. The controversy, according to the article comes from the fact that even with 19 babies, and the latest facing many challenges to survive and have any kind of normal life, the Duggars have no plans to stop having more children.
When the Duggars first became famous thanks to TLC, people marveled at this obviously religious family and all of their well-behaved children. The kids are home schooled and have a conservative Christian upbringing. I watched the program once and couldn't imagine a house with that many children. When my mother remarried, her new husband brought four kids with him, mixed with the three my mother had. It was a regular Brady Bunch with three boys and four girls on visitation weekends, and it was absolute chaos. So why would anyone want to have enough kids to field a baseball game?
That's because they believe it's God's commandment that they have as many babies as he decides to give them. The Duggars belong to a religious movement called Quiverfull. Along with having lots of babies, Quiverfull teaches that men are holders of all authority and the head of the home exclusively. The woman's purpose in this society is to be mothers and housewives, submitting to their husbands or fathers in all things. The girls in these families are brought up secluded from socializing outside of the family unit. They're taught the proper place for a female is doing exactly what a man tells her to do. And what a woman is supposed to do is submit to men in all things, and give birth to as many babies as humanly possible; the plan being that this movement will repopulate the world with more people who think exactly like them.
Unfortunately, when it comes to women's bodies and childbirth, most people living in the 21st century who decide to have children believe in quality over quantity, myself being one of them. The Duggars are coming under fire for their desire to keep having children as long as God wants them to, despite the complications with the last pregnancy. The thing not once mentioned in the People magazine article or on TLC which hosts 19 Kids and Counting is the Duggars being members of Quiverfull. If people knew more about the movement and it's philosophy shows like 19 Kids and Counting wouldn't be getting air time.
Mrs. Duggar sincerely believes she is doing what God put her on earth to do, and she's raised all of her daughters to believe the same thing. They will all get married to men approved by Dad and have as many babies as their bodies can stand to carry to term. Mrs Duggar believes she's doing God's work, but something tells me somewhere, in a part of her brain that hasn't been raped by the Quiverfull movement, she's praying for menopause to kick in any minute now.
When the Duggars first became famous thanks to TLC, people marveled at this obviously religious family and all of their well-behaved children. The kids are home schooled and have a conservative Christian upbringing. I watched the program once and couldn't imagine a house with that many children. When my mother remarried, her new husband brought four kids with him, mixed with the three my mother had. It was a regular Brady Bunch with three boys and four girls on visitation weekends, and it was absolute chaos. So why would anyone want to have enough kids to field a baseball game?
That's because they believe it's God's commandment that they have as many babies as he decides to give them. The Duggars belong to a religious movement called Quiverfull. Along with having lots of babies, Quiverfull teaches that men are holders of all authority and the head of the home exclusively. The woman's purpose in this society is to be mothers and housewives, submitting to their husbands or fathers in all things. The girls in these families are brought up secluded from socializing outside of the family unit. They're taught the proper place for a female is doing exactly what a man tells her to do. And what a woman is supposed to do is submit to men in all things, and give birth to as many babies as humanly possible; the plan being that this movement will repopulate the world with more people who think exactly like them.
Unfortunately, when it comes to women's bodies and childbirth, most people living in the 21st century who decide to have children believe in quality over quantity, myself being one of them. The Duggars are coming under fire for their desire to keep having children as long as God wants them to, despite the complications with the last pregnancy. The thing not once mentioned in the People magazine article or on TLC which hosts 19 Kids and Counting is the Duggars being members of Quiverfull. If people knew more about the movement and it's philosophy shows like 19 Kids and Counting wouldn't be getting air time.
Mrs. Duggar sincerely believes she is doing what God put her on earth to do, and she's raised all of her daughters to believe the same thing. They will all get married to men approved by Dad and have as many babies as their bodies can stand to carry to term. Mrs Duggar believes she's doing God's work, but something tells me somewhere, in a part of her brain that hasn't been raped by the Quiverfull movement, she's praying for menopause to kick in any minute now.