Holy moly 19

Forget Octomom, Michelle Duggar is having her 19th kid. Yes, that’s right, 19th kid. I remember a few years back I heard the Duggar family had 15 kids and I thought to myself insane thoughts I won’t repeat here. Now, Michelle Duggar is pregnant with her 19th child.

But unlike Octomom, Michelle Duggar is married, and the Duggar family is debt free and lives in a big, approx 7000 sq ft home. My first instinct was that it’s a big house, but for 20 people, I don’t know how they make the bedrooms work. Anyway, like Octomom probably will soon, the Duggar family has a TV show on TLC.

I’m all for having kids if you can afford it, but 19 kids? Damn. The only thing I do have a problem is with … their ways? Taken from my favorite source Wikipedia,

“In addition, the Duggar parents have ultra-conservative and very traditional parenting ideas. None of the family’s daughters are permitted to do typically ‘male’ activities, such having short hair, wearing pants or attending college. The Duggars follow the teachings of Bill Gothard, which include that children not go to college, children should not leave the home until they are married, families do not use birth control and refuse many forms of pre-natal care, stringent social conservatism (including ideas such as young-earth creationism) is strictly enforced and taught at a young age, and gender roles are adhered to.”

The whole birth control ideology, whatever, but females can’t have short hair or wear pants (hello, practicality?) and no one goes to college? Then again, sending that many kids to college probably would take them out of their envious debt-free-ness. Oh, and I read more, and everyone is homeschooled. But I guess it’s not in the traditional sense, because with that many kids it’s more or less a classroom with many ages of students.

I won’t lie, I’ve always found ultra traditional and conservative Christians very fascinating. Like Indendent Fundamental Baptists, who don’t allow modern music and dancing among other things. I’m not trashing on anyone else’s religion, because if someone believes something and it doesn’t hurt anyone, I don’t really care. If someone believes something only because it’s the only thing they’ve ever known, I feel sorry for them. If someone is forced by their family to follow something they don’t want to follow, I hope they either change their familiy’s minds or find a way to run away.