Thread: Woman pregnant with 18th child
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Old 05-09-2008   #32 (permalink)
njqt466
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I'm not sure that's true here. The children all appear physically healthy. They go to doctors. They don't just sit home and pray for a broken bone to mend.
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What I worry about is the emotional and social development of these children. By only associating with other people who think and behave as they do the children are woefully unprepared to function in normal American society.
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NJ: Their older kids need to be able to get out and socialize with other people. It does no good to keep them close to home. I'm not suggesting they're into faith healing, but they need to give their older kids their freedoms or else they won't flourish as adults when they're independent.

I guess by, "middle America," I meant it geographically. I should have used, "Bible Belt." Who from Europe or anywhere else in the world sees these places or meets these people on vacation? They don't.
I agree, I'm sorry I misunderstood you. That's what I thought I was saying in my last paragraph.

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[NJ... they're just a family trying to survive on their own. I don't attach any sort of political or religious implications on to their topic... because thats just analyzing them WAY too deeply. Sheesh. Regardless of their reasons, they deemed it the right choice to have that many children and raise them in their own way. The family should be admired... as the human race was meant to go out and multiply in fruition (as was any living creature).

The dad probably has control issues because he's raising so many children. I'm sorry... but until we all give birth to and raise that many children... we have NO room to judge that man.

The children, I'm sure... will get good, real world experience once they grow up and are sent out into the world.

I, for one, admire the family.
I guess I understand your viewpoint; but I know people like the Duggar family and 80% of the time they are conservative Christians. Regrettably, I have extended family members who live as they do.

As an educator I have always been against homeschooling. there are only 3 reasons people ever give for home schooling their children: 1) Local public schools do not meet average standards 2) Their child needs specialized one on one attention. 3) They don't like their children mixing with those of different faiths, ethnicities, races and spiritual backgrounds.

I have seen homeschool groups come into museums where I have worked and the children are always ill behaved and rambunctious. Why? Because mom will put up with a lot of crap that a teacher won't.

The best behaved school groups were usually the Muslim school groups and the students from the worst parts of local urban areas.