Arkansas couple welcomes 17th child

Oh good lord, not another one.

By JILL ZEMAN, Associated Press Writer
29 minutes ago



It's a girl _ again _ for the Duggars. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 17th child, and seventh daughter, into the world Thursday.

Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rogers, Ark., the Duggars said in an interview. Jennifer weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and arrived five days after Michelle's due date.

Less than 30 minutes after giving birth, the Duggars already were talking of having more.

"We'd love to have more," Michelle said, adding that the girls are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family. "We love the ruffles and lace."

Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in Tontitown in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children _ whose names start with the letter J _ are home-schooled.

The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old.

"We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him," said Jim Bob Duggar, 42, a former state representative. "We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well."

Jennifer joins siblings Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070803/ap_on_fe_st/17_kids&printer=1;_ylt=ApqK51Civh8TYDfmnNwcb70uQE4F

http://www.duggarfamily.com

http://www.duggarfamily.com

Jinger?



The dad's name is Jim Bob?

(/hattip SuicidePuppies)

What is so freakin' holy about the letter J?

Jebus I'm a guessin'

Couldn't they possibly oh I don't know ADOPT

So are they positive a baby came out and not her uterus?

I would have guessed the letter J in Jehovah. Remember, in latin the letter J is the lengthened letter I, and the letter I is really the letter Y in Hebrew, which is the first letter of god's name, see YHWH.

My vagina cringes just thinking about it.

She had to have a Caesarian?!? you'd think after 17 units the woman would be like a log flume....

seriously, we need to assemble a drive-by sterilization team, STAT!

Not to mention that in Qabbala, of course, the yod signifies the primordial energy that initiates the Sheveirat ha-Keilim, or the cataclysm of creation.

But you're assuming they're educated enough to know stuff like that. I hate to say it, but scorp17yh is probably . . . right.

I feel dirty now.

Have you seen these fuckos on the Discovery Channel? There have been a few specials about them.
She's prime breeding stock.
Vacant look in the eyes, and to me she looks like always about to explode from keeping something inside.
He's a jeebus lovin' fool.
It's god's will that they keep having kids until her uterus is cold and dead and they can hang it on the wall as a symbol of their devotion to Christ.

I feel sorry for their kids -damn near living in poverty due to the size of the family.
I feel sorry for her, being used for her uterus, losing her value as anything but a child care giver and birthing unit. I guess I'd call her sex slave, but I can't imagine that either of them takes any joy in it, given that to enjoy sex would be a sin.
I feel sorry for him. He just doesn't fucking get it. No clue at all as to why what he's doing is morally and socially reprehensible. It's the word of God y'all.

Here's some lovely information on their religion, which apparently demands female subordination for breeding purposes (and is critical of hospital births, so they obviously don't follow it to the letter), and on their http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gothardcult leader, who apparently once "protested against the Cabbage Patch Kids because Cabbage Patch Kids or Treasure Trolls could lead to difficulties in conceiving or giving birth to a child."

And Jim Bob Duggar is a former representative in the Arkansas legislature, and a failed candidate for the US Senate.

The record for a woman is over 60 children. They have a long way to go.

OH GOURD IT'S THOSE PEOPLE!

Seriously...not much frightens me. You really wish and hope that some of the kids would get into pot or porn.

-TM

I knew this story soundedfamiliar;


God Does Not Want 16 Kids
Arkansas mom gives birth to a whole freakin' baseball team. How deeply should you cringe?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, October 19, 2005


Who are you to judge? Who are you to say that the more than slightly creepy 39-year-old woman from Arkansas who just gave birth to her 16th child yes that's right 16 kids and try not to cringe in phantom vaginal pain when you say it, who are you to say Michelle Duggar is not more than a little unhinged and sad and lost?

And furthermore, who are you to suggest that her equally troubling husband -- whose name is, of course, Jim Bob and he's hankerin' to be a Republican senator and try not to wince in sociopolitical pain when you say that -- isn't more than a little numb to the real world, and that bringing 16 hungry mewling attention-deprived kids (and she wants more! Yay!) into this exhausted world zips right by "touching" and races right past "disturbing" and lurches its way, heaving and gasping and sweating from the karmic armpits, straight into "Oh my God, what the hell is wrong with you people?"

But that would be, you know, mean. Mean and callous to suggest that this might be the most disquieting photo you see all year, this bizarre Duggar family of 18 spotless white hyperreligious interchangeable people with alarmingly bad hair, the kids ranging in ages from 1 to 17, worse than those nuked Smurfs in that UNICEF commercial and worse than all the horrific rubble in Pakistan and worse than the cluster-bomb nightmare that is Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise having a child as they suck the skin from each other's Scientological faces and even worse than that huge 13-foot python which ate that six-foot alligator and then exploded.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/10/19/notes101905.DTL

when do they get the money to feed and look after 17 kids?

All of the children can sew, fortunately.

I don't personally see it as creepy. My great grandmother had 12 kids, but they also put the kids to work as fieldhands pretty much as soon as they could carry a cotton sack.

If you can feed and clothe and most importantly LOVE that many kids, go for it.

My vagina will still cringe in pain, though.

Somewhere the ghost of Thomas Malthus is crying...

There might be more to the story, but from what I see here, I have no clue what problem people have with them.

But in the Latin alphabet......Jehova begins with an "I"........oh dear

I'd venture a guess that because the family is apparently very religious...they are a target for ridicule...on this message board anyway.