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http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/parenting/10/12/sixteen.kids.ap/index.html

"My god, lady! It's a uterus not a clown car!" Dennis Miller

Not really a milf in my book. So where do these babys keep coming from?

OMFG, I never thought that was possible. If I were a mother, I would die after my 10th kid. :eek: :eek: :eek:

*pulls out an anatomy book* This could get a little graphic...

Remember, everyone... spay or neuter your Arkansan before their population gets out of control.




I'm sorry kids... it's medical experiments for the lot of you.

If you do the math. The average age difference between the 16 kids is 1.0625 years!!!

"We both just love children and we consider each a blessing from the Lord. I have asked Michelle if she wants more and she said yes, if the Lord wants to give us some she will accept them,

How predictable. Just once it would be nice if it was satan or space monkeys that wanted them to have more, instead of the "Lord."

I think I saw a show about this family. Did they do a TLC special last year?

How predictable. Just once it would be nice if it was satan or space monkeys that wanted them to have more, instead of the "Lord."


Priceless-ness

" That beloved demented space monkey gave us its blessing, so by george [ stereo-types, yay! ] were gonna keep popping em out! Little buggers. "

:p :p

How predictable. Just once it would be nice if it was satan or space monkeys that wanted them to have more, instead of the "Lord."

Or better yet, "It's all part of our Genetic Re-encoding project for the human race. In two more generations, you will all be descendants of ME! AHHH HAHAHAHHAHA!!!!"

My God, do they just do it from 9AM-5PM, Monday-Friday?

Religious people from a place called "LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas."

Figures.

Or better yet, "It's all part of our Genetic Re-encoding project for the human race. In two more generations, you will all be descendants of ME! AHHH HAHAHAHHAHA!!!!"

:p I think you've hit the nail on the head there.

I was hopping to see a half white half black child in the grp.

I was hopping to see a half white half black child in the grp.

it's AK, there's hardly any black people there.

OMFG, I never thought that was possible. If I were a mother, I would die after my 10th kid. :eek: :eek: :eek:
They just fall out after 5 you know.

Joshua, 17; John David, 15; Janna, 15; Jill, 14; Jessa, 12; Jinger, 11; Joseph, 10; Josiah, 9; Joy-Anna, 8; Jeremiah, 6; Jedidiah, 6; Jason, 5; James, 4; Justin, 2; Jackson Levi, 1; Johannah Faith, 2 days

All the names start with "J"...

*SHUDDERS*

I HATE parents that do that...:mad:

Imagine when they start going to college... $ :eek: $

Jedidiah
Come on, that's not a real name!

Imagine when post comes in adressed to J. *Insert Surname here*

Oh the Laughs that must cause

Not really a milf in my book. So where do these babys keep coming from?
i give you a clue, the guy in teh second photo is my guess... the one that has cheeky grin....

it's AK, there's hardly any black people there.

AK is Alaska. But there's hardly any blacks there, either... :p

I remember this family from Discovery Channel like a year ago.. basically, they have a circle of friends who all have huge families, so they're kinda all into it, and the older kids seem to take care of the younger..

Now, if they had a farm, I could understand. My old neighbor was from a family of nine, and every one of his brothers farmed from Day 1, otherwise they'd have gone broke.. but non-farming families having 10+ kids is exceedingly rare..

However, I believe a Russian woman once had close to 40 kids in her lifetime, so they can't be going for the record, since it's basically unbeatable..

Come on, that's not a real name!I've seen it around before. The guy got pissed off majorly everytime someone thought "Jebedia" had been misspelled...

Imagine when post comes in adressed to J. *Insert Surname here*

Oh the Laughs that must causeThey could save a lot of money by making all the monogrammed towels hand-me-downs though...:p

Edit: eh, nevermind.. that whole damn site is spam, list of jeds or no list.

This story is my ultimate vision of hell *shudders*

Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence... Sixteen times?!
Ye gods, aren't six-and-a-half billion humans enough?

I think I saw a show about this family. Did they do a TLC special last year?
they did. I watched it, I was surprised to learn that they don't get any public assistance, they pay for all of that.
They showed thier pantry and it had a lot more food in it than there has ever been in my kitchen, and they said it was empty and went to the store and spent $800 for two weeks of food.

I was shocked :eek:

Come on, that's not a real name!

Exactly my thought! Imagine how much you must hate your kids if you burden them with 'names,' and thats stretching the definition of 'name,' like that. Kinda like Frank Zappa who 'named' his kids: Moon Unit, Diva, Dweezil, and Ahmet Rodan. Still a lot better than Jedidiah though.

Hey, are you knocking large families? One of my great-grandmothers had 12 kids. She gave birth every two years like clockwork from the age of 18. Another had 10 kids.

One side effect of this is that my father does not know how many first cousins he has. He lost count somewhere around 50.

Another side effect is that if you are Irish or Scotch-Irish and from the vicinity of McKees Rocks, PA, we're probably relatives.

:D

First off, Jedidiah is a Biblical name meaning "beloved by Jehovah". It's not a common name in this area, but not unheard of either. What ever gave anyone the impression that there were hardly any blacks in Arkansas (AR for those who are abbreviationally challenged)? I don't know the exact figures, but an estimate, based on my observations, is that roughly 1/3 of the Little Rock population is black. The percentage would be much lower in the rural areas of course. The Duggar family are well known and highly respected here in AR. They both love children and do an outstanding job as parents. Their children are better behaved, better educated, and better socially adjusted than many families with only 2 or 3 kids. If they enjoy raising children and can afford a large family, why not?

http://www.jimbob.info/

First off, Jedidiah is a Biblical name meaning "beloved by Jehovah". It's not a common name in this area, but not unheard of either. What ever gave anyone the impression that there were hardly any blacks in Arkansas (AR for those who are abbreviationally challenged)? I don't know the exact figures, but an estimate, based on my observations, is that roughly 1/3 of the Little Rock population is black. The percentage would be much lower in the rural areas of course. The Duggar family are well known and highly respected here in AR. They both love children and do an outstanding job as parents. Their children are better behaved, better educated, and better socially adjusted than many families with only 2 or 3 kids. If they enjoy raising children and can afford a large family, why not?

http://www.jimbob.info/
My experience from living in Arkansas is that there's a sizable black population, and that it's even greater in the rural areas of the delta, the southern and eastern parts of the state. It's also dirt poor--I did some volunteer work in the public schools in that area one year, and the conditions were horrendous, unbelievable even to one who'd been educated in poor southern schools. Some of my fellow volunteers from wealthier parts of the country were horrified.

As to Duggar, I never met him, but I saw his billboards up when he ran for Senate, and I was weirded out by his family then, and I think he and his wife were only at 11 or so. Not to be mean or anything, but they look like pod people.
http://common.weblogsinc.com/common/images/1871101666610756.JPG?0.2998235969810755

I'm only kidding, of course, but they did remind me of a lot of people I had to deal with on a daily basis at the University and in my community, and let's just say they were people who I didn't often see eye to eye with on matters of political or religious import. I mean, when you're running to the right of Tim Hutchinson for the US Senate as Duggar did, there's a pretty good chance you won't have much in common with me. :)

First off, Jedidiah is a Biblical name meaning "beloved by Jehovah". It's not a common name in this area, but not unheard of either. What ever gave anyone the impression that there were hardly any blacks in Arkansas (AR for those who are abbreviationally challenged)? I don't know the exact figures, but an estimate, based on my observations, is that roughly 1/3 of the Little Rock population is black. The percentage would be much lower in the rural areas of course. The Duggar family are well known and highly respected here in AR. They both love children and do an outstanding job as parents. Their children are better behaved, better educated, and better socially adjusted than many families with only 2 or 3 kids. If they enjoy raising children and can afford a large family, why not?

http://www.jimbob.info/

That's the anti-American mentality: all Americans are stupid, children are horrible and should be avoided at any cost; I know more about your country than you do (no blacks in Arkansas ROTFL!!!!!); anyone who doesn't think the way that I do (more than one child is an excess - how can you take care of a pet child if you have more than one?); people should be regulated in the number of children they have (I'm the government and I know how to run your life better than you do); etc, etc.

I have a friend in the UK who is trying to have children. If she were trying to keep from having children or abort one of them, the government would bend over backwards to help her. But since she has problems conceiving, she can't get any medical assistance at all (it's controlled by the government and they know better than she does what will make her and her husband happy).

I'm glad I don't live in Europe. The socialists haven't changed much from the days of Uncle Adolf.

I'm glad I don't live in Europe. The socialists haven't changed much from the days of Uncle Adolf.
You know, you were making solid points until you dropped that bit of retardation on us. :rolleyes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051012/ap_on_re_us/sixteen_kids;_ylt=AvuzTu9ezbIwUp7yG4jhetSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Michelle Duggar just delivered her 16th child, and she's already thinking about doing it again.

Johannah Faith Duggar was born at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces.

The baby's father, Jim Bob Duggar, a former state representative, said Wednesday that mother and child were doing well.

He said Johannah's birth was especially exciting because it was the first time in eight years the family has had a girl.

Jim Bob Duggar, 40, said he and Michelle, 39, want more children.

"We both just love children and we consider each a blessing from the Lord. I have asked Michelle if she wants more and she said yes, if the Lord wants to give us some she will accept them," he said.

The Discovery Health Channel filmed Johannah's birth and plans to air a show about the family of 18 next May.

The Learning Channel is doing another show about the family's construction project, a 7,000-square foot house that should be finished before Christmas. The home, which the family has been building for two years, will have nine bathrooms, dormitory-style bedrooms for the girls and boys, a commercial kitchen, four washing machines and four dryers.

Jim Bob Duggar, who sells real estate, previously lost his bid for the U.S. Senate. He said he expects to run for the state Senate next year but isn't ready to make a formal announcement.

Michelle Duggar had her first child at age 21, four years after the couple married.

Their children include two sets of twins, and each child has a name beginning with the letter "J": Joshua, 17; John David, 15; Janna, 15; Jill, 14; Jessa, 12; Jinger, 11; Joseph, 10; Josiah, 9; Joy-Anna, 8; Jeremiah, 6; Jedidiah, 6; Jason, 5; James, 4; Justin, 2; and Jackson Levi, 1.

Just stop having kids, really. Stop.

Duplicate. :)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051012/ap_on_re_us/sixteen_kids;_ylt=AvuzTu9ezbIwUp7yG4jhetSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Just stop having kids, really. Stop.

Why? It all averages out when you consider the number of people who never have children.

If they can do it, pay for it, and like it, more power to them.

huh... déjà-vu? :p

I'm glad I don't live in Europe. The socialists haven't changed much from the days of Uncle Adolf.And I'm glad I don't live in the US, because those of us that don't want any children would seemingly be considered insane and evil there, since having children is apparently considered the epitomy of one's existence. It seems from your rant that you hold to the idea that those of us who don't want children are sinners of the highest magnitude, rather than people with normal lives who just happen not to want children. While in Europe, the attitudes of those not wanting children is generally not understood, it is at least generally accepted.

How long has your friend been waiting for fertility treatment? The NHS reguarly helps those that cannot conceive; I know several couples and have heard of many, many more. You have to wait for about three years before assistance will be provided, as it can sometimes take that period and more for conception to take place naturally. The NHS is shit, certainly, but not only in this regard - if anything, it's better as regards fertility treatment than if, say, you need a major operation where you may have to wait the same three years despite the fact you could be dead in one.

Why? It all averages out when you consider the number of people who never have children.I don't know of specific statistics, but I'd be pretty damn sure that we (the people who don't have children through choice) are very much in the minority.

I'm glad I don't live in Europe. The socialists haven't changed much from the days of Uncle Adolf.


I know I really should ignore this, but here goes...

Yeah, Adolf Hitler, the great socialist leader. WTF!?!?!

I hope you are aware that by that comment you stooped to the level of the people you berate? Please be also aware that even though I do not agree with the rest of the post, I have no beef with that, as that is just you expressing your opinion. But by comparing socialists to Hitler and making it implicit that all Europeans are socialists, you are calling me a nazi. To that I take offence.

Think, then type.

And I'm glad I don't live in the US, because those of us that don't want any children would seemingly be considered insane and evil there, since having children is apparently considered the epitomy of one's existence. It seems from your rant that you hold to the idea that those of us who don't want children are sinners of the highest magnitude, rather than people with normal lives who just happen not to want children. While in Europe, the attitudes of those not wanting children is generally not understood, it is at least generally accepted.

How long has your friend been waiting for fertility treatment? The NHS reguarly helps those that cannot conceive; I know several couples and have heard of many, many more. You have to wait for about three years before assistance will be provided, as it can sometimes take that period and more for conception to take place naturally. The NHS is shit, certainly, but not only in this regard - if anything, it's better as regards fertility treatment than if, say, you need a major operation where you may have to wait the same three years despite the fact you could be dead in one.

Don't waste your time, anyone who thinks Hitler was a Socialist is probably beyond logic.:rolleyes:

Oh, just to enlighten Jaredites.

We do have private hospitals here in Europe. Nobody is stopping your friend from contacting them and paying for the procedure herself.

If she cannot afford this, chances are that she wouldn't be able to afford it in the US. Chances are also, that her medical insurance would not cover the procedure.

Of course I do not know the particulars of your friends situation, but you are not 100% dependent on the government for medical procedures here in Europe, if you can afford it you can pay for it yourself. We also have private medical insurance companies. So it's actually not that different from the states.

I don't know of specific statistics, but I'd be pretty damn sure that we (the people who don't have children through choice) are very much in the minority.

In the US, we have a positive, but fairly small growth rate. Many EU countries are at zero population growth, or in some cases, negative for original populations (the immigrants are reproducing, though).

There are a fair number of childless couples in Western countries.

Don't waste your time, anyone who thinks Hitler was a Socialist is probably beyond logic.:rolleyes:
He was a socialist? :rolleyes: Wow, for a socialist, he had this odd obsession with right wing policies....

In the US, we have a positive, but fairly small growth rate. Many EU countries are at zero population growth, or in some cases, negative for original populations (the immigrants are reproducing, though).

There are a fair number of childless couples in Western countries.

Actually, every country in Europe (except for Albania), has a shrinking population, i.e., a birthrate less than 2.0. So does every other Western nation, with the exception of Australia, which was in positive territory for a short while due to a family-focused political movement a year or so ago, I hear. The U.S. is only in positive territory due to immigration, although we're shrinking much much slower than, say, Italy, which is basically the worst in Europe.

In the US, we have a positive, but fairly small growth rate. Many EU countries are at zero population growth, or in some cases, negative for original populations (the immigrants are reproducing, though).

There are a fair number of childless couples in Western countries.
Your point being what? A growth rate of even 1% in a country of several hundred million is alot of kids, and it is exponential. (Which is about the growth rate.) And we are talking about the US, not other countries.

Side note: India is gonig to take over the world by just having people literally falling over the borders. Over 1 billion people and 1.5% growth rate.

I'm glad someone replied to that crap. I must admit that I didn't have the heart to bother, as I found reading it most discouraging.

I will willingly admit to being a fool, and more often than not all I have is 'ignorance' on my side, but to go "Hitler the socialist", oy... enough to make my blood boil.

I wonder what's next. Maybe something like "Mengele was one of the great physician of his time," which in effect would make me into Jesus Reincarnate for once putting a band-aid on my two-year-old nephew's knee.

Uhm.. Why is it any of our business how many children they choose to have? Obviously they're fully capable of handling it, so what right do any outsiders have to butt in here?

OP, would you let me decide the number of children you should have? Because judging from that comment, I'd say 0. No crazy wannabe-despots polluting the genepool please.

If you feel there is something wrong with the population growth rate in your country, singling out one family isn't the way to go about it. Raise awareness about it instead. I know many of the peoples in the northern european countries believe it to be slightly detrimental to society to have more than maximum two kids, so they don't. Unless it's very damn important to them. If you look at the population growth rates for those countries, you'll see it's possible to make direct connections with media hype about overpopulation or scares of too small new generations to support the elderly.

It's probably fairly easy to control population growth rates, by simply informing the public. Only noone's really tried to do it yet.
In any case, single families means absolutely nothing in that statistic. The only thing that counts is the general trend.

Don't waste your time, anyone who thinks Hitler was a Socialist is probably beyond logic.:rolleyes:True, but in fairness Hitler's party was called the National Socialists. Clearly Jaredites is so misinformed about 20th century history that he takes the name of the Nazis at face value, as opposed to actually considering all the mad atrocities they committed :rolleyes:

How is that possible????

When I was teaching in NZ, I taught a kid in year9 who was the youngest of 12 children. His father had something like 7 siblings and his grandmother was one of 23 children.
What was kinda weird was that two of his nephews were in Y11 and 12 respectively.
I also taught an Uncle and niece in another class who were only a couple of months apart in age. And yep - same extended family.
Unsurprisingly, there weren't many in that town who weren't related to that family in one way or another.

According to the Guiness book of records the largest recorded number of children one woman has ever had was 69. Though this was in Russia a couple of hundred years ago, so I do wonder as to it's verity.

they did. I watched it, I was surprised to learn that they don't get any public assistance, they pay for all of that.
They showed thier pantry and it had a lot more food in it than there has ever been in my kitchen, and they said it was empty and went to the store and spent $3000 for two weeks of food.

I was shocked :eek:


Watched same show, it was $800 not $3000.

Come on, that's not a real name!


Yes, actually, Jedidiah is. http://www.thinkbabynames.com/name/1/Jedidiah

Also, this is only weird because in the past 50 years or so we have decided that one or two children is the norm; my father's one of five and I've a friend whose father was one of seventeen and mother was one of fifteen.

And all in NYC, so no, you can't make fun of people from rural areas on this.

Must be nice to have the money to afford all those kids. I do hope that they all get scholarships or the parents will be sunk when it's college time.

Must be nice to have the money to afford all those kids. I do hope that they all get scholarships or the parents will be sunk when it's college time.

*shrugs*
Or they (the kids) can work their way through college. I did.

They just fall out after 5 you know.

After ten, they shoot out like human cannonballs. :D

*shrugs*
Or they (the kids) can work their way through college. I did.

Hardly pay for tuition but maybe they don't mind being in debt.

OP, would you let me decide the number of children you should have? Because judging from that comment, I'd say 0. No crazy wannabe-despots polluting the genepool please.

First of all, I'm not a crazy wannabe-despot.

I'm a berzerk barbarian clown with an alarmingly clear grasp of grammar.

For instance, I know that when a statement is surrounded by parentheses and followed by a name, it is a quote from someone else. For instance:

"My god, lady! It's a uterus not a clown car!" Dennis Miller.

SO you see, the comment that you are judging me from isn't even mine. :p

Oh, and I have one kid, and he will probably accidentally destroy you all. :D

Australia - we get $500 per child, baby bonus... i think our govt just cant decide what to spend money on - they did tax cuts, a 21,000 bonus for first home purchase, now down to 14,000 and now money for kids...

Oh yeah, I heard of that family before. It's not as if they're a burden on the state. They keep their own family so if they want to go having loads of kids then good on them. Britain needs more families like them, we have an ageing population and we need more young people. Otherwise we'll have to let loads of immigrants in.

I find this woman and her behaviour absolutley repulsive and reprehensive. How the hell can you, in good conscience, have 16 children that the world is overpopulated AS IS?!

Come on, that's not a real name!

The Beverly Hillbillies.... "Jed" Clampett's full name was Jedidiah Clampett... Also spelled "Jedediah".... It's a biblical name.

The Beverly Hillbillies.... "Jed" Clampett's full name was Jedidiah Clampett... Also spelled "Jedediah".... It's a biblical name.
Oh, sorry, I had assumed the Beverly Hillbillies wasn't an accurate depiction of life ;)

Perhaps the fertile couple should be warned for baby-spamming. Moderators?

Watched same show, it was $800 not $3000.
really? hmm. sorry. I must have confused it for something else, I have a lot of things floating around in my head today

thanks for the correction I will edit.;)

I find this woman and her behaviour absolutley repulsive and reprehensive. How the hell can you, in good conscience, have 16 children that the world is overpopulated AS IS?!
because they want to?
oh and they can pay for it?

Hardly pay for tuition but maybe they don't mind being in debt.

...

I repeat: I paid for my college education. I worked while studying. Why couldn't others?

There are plenty of people who, at age 18, get their own job, their own apartment, and do NOT depend on their parents to raise them anymore.

There are loans, grants, scholarships and good old fashioned jobs, both on and off campus.... so.... why must it be the parents' responsibility to put 16 kids through college?

How that is possible is beyond me. Also, if she wanted children, there are plenty of them waiting to be adopted at hundreds of orphanges.

One of the reasons they have so many kids is because they may think that the only form of birth control is abstinence, and they obviously couldn't live without their precious snuggles, could they? I read an editorial in which it mentioned that in Texas a textbook is being used in which the only form of birth control that is mentioned is abstinence. Perhaps that's what they think?

Still, sixteen? I mean, c'mon. Get a hobby, will you? I guess the only reason I'd ever have as many is to have tons of granchildren, and be able to watch them give my kids as much hell as they gave me.

How that is possible is beyond me. Also, if she wanted children, there are plenty of them waiting to be adopted at hundreds of orphanges.
Exactly. The human population is rising so quickly it's horrifying. The need for more resources has led us to tear apart the planet, destroying precious ecosystems just so that little Jennie can gurgle happily in her crib while poor Jack stays stuck in an orphanage for life.