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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 11, 2013 16:01:25 GMT
One of America's biggest families is getting a little bigger.
The eldest son of reality show super-parents Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar and his wife shared their happy news on TODAY Monday: Josh, 26, and his wife Anna, 25, said she is pregnant with their third child.
“We’re expecting,” Anna Duggar said. “Surprise!”
The large Duggar clan surrounded the couple as they made their announcement.
“No. 3 due on June 7,” Josh Duggar said. “We’re very excited.”
Josh and Anna Duggar, who married in 2008, have a 3-year-old daughter, Mackynzie Renee, and a 1-year-old son, Michael James.
The couple will soon learn the gender of their new addition. They said they may keep everyone guessing on the name they will choose. Josh and his 18 siblings all have names that start with a J.
“We have Mackynzie and Michael, so we’ll let everybody wait and see," Josh Duggar said.
The Duggars star in the TLC reality show “19 Kids & Counting,” which chronicles their lives in their Arkansas home.
Could Josh and Anna be on their way to their own 19 kids?
"I'm from a small family of eight and I’m so glad that my parents had each of the children that they had," Anna Duggar said. "Children are a blessing."
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, their 19 children, one daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren joined TODAY to announce that a third grandchild is due in June.
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar appeared on the TODAY show in February 2012 to discuss their heartbreak after Michelle suffered a miscarriage with what would have been her 20th child.
"It's devastating, and many others have experienced very similar situations," Michelle said on the show. "Probably the hardest part is that when a loss like this occurs, people really don't know what to say.... We realize our sweet little Jubliee is with the Lord, and we will see her again someday."
Michelle had also suffered a miscarriage during her second pregnancy. That first miscarriage was what caused Michelle and Jim Bob to rethink their plan to have two or three children, and instead to eschew family planning and leave the number of children they have up to God.
Michelle, who's 46, has told TODAY Moms that her childbearing days may be behind her, but she certainly would have another if she could. "We would be open to more if God saw fit to bless us with more," she said.
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 11, 2013 16:03:06 GMT
Personally.......I'm not against big families.........but I believe Michelle Duggar needs mental help. I think it is just more of an addiction to being pregnant.
There is no way that they can function as a regular family. I don't see how they can develop special bonds with each child.....and it seems to me....that the older kids end up caring for the younger ones.
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Post by toby on Mar 11, 2013 16:14:44 GMT
Toby comments.:- I say good luck to them ! In Europe we are constantly bombarded by statistics that the number of children born is too few to keep our Countries ticking over, which is why the Governments have to employ Mass Immigration. Every indiginous child born means one less Immigrant is required, it's as simple as that !
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 12, 2013 3:32:04 GMT
This is from an early article when the Duggar's announced they were pregnant again.
At the ripe ol' age of 45, Michelle Duggar is pregnant with her twentieth child. If something about this doesn't sit quite right with you -- but you just can't place what -- allow me to shed some light.
First of all, there's the fact that the world's population is reaching dizzying heights: The 7 billionth baby was recently born. (Not saying don't have kids, just don't have 20.) Then there's the fact that Michelle is having a baby (again, her twentieth!) at 45. Her age, coupled with it being the twentieth child, puts her -- and her unborn baby -- at risk for a whole host of problems. Kind of like her last baby did.
During her last pregnancy, Michelle suffered from preeclampsia. Apparently, her blood pressure sky-rocketed and protein appeared in her urine. In order to save her life, doctors had to deliver her baby, Josie, three-and-a-half months early. She weighed only one pound, six ounces! And once a woman has had preeclampsia, the risk of it in future pregnancies increases! AKA this could happen again! Josie will turn 2 in December and is fine now, but still -- didn't this make Michelle think?
Michelle Duggar is clearly addicted/obsessed/infatuated with being pregnant. It's like she feels more "normal" being pregnant than not -- which is fine, but it doesn't mean you can spend your entire life with child. That's not normal. And it's putting her "needs" before her child's.
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She did end up losing that child......and she seriously risks her health and life to even consider becoming pregnant again, much less the possible ramifications to the child. She would leave 19 children motherless..........not sure how much mothering she gets done......but she should consider the needs of her family over her ridiculous need to propagate.
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Post by Hunny on Mar 12, 2013 13:07:28 GMT
Is she a strict catholic or has some religious reason to not use contraception?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2013 14:10:29 GMT
Is she a strict catholic or has some religious reason to not use contraception? good point.
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 12, 2013 15:09:42 GMT
They are conservative Baptists........
I found this article about them.......(http://jezebel.com/5939635/the-duggars-are-an-evil-cult)
The real problem with the Duggars is that they are a cult.
Instead of recruiting members, Michelle and Bob just created them with their own bodies. And these kids don't stand a chance of escaping and becoming their own people with their own opinions and their own identities. Because their identities have already been established for them — based on the group — from the minute they were conceived and given a J-name.
Think about it. If there are 19 (and counting!) Duggar children, then statistically speaking, two of them are gay. What are the chances that they will be able to live happy, mentally and emotionally healthy lives as out-and-proud homosexuals in a loving relationship with the acceptance of their family members?
Nine of the Duggar children are female. What are the chances that they will get to go away to college and live on a campus and explore careers in finance or architecture or law or anything other than traditional pink-collar work? (So far, Jana, 22, and Jill, 21, are "looking into" midwifery and nursing by "studying under professionals," and Jessa, 19, "has a passion for teaching," which means that she gets to homeschool the younger children.)
Yes, they are a family, but they meet all the criteria of a mind-control group. The following are the eight factors used to identify a destructive cult, outlined by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton identifies in his seminal book on mind control, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism.
1.) Milieu Control Controlling the environment of members is key, and usually involves a form of isolation. Lifton explains: "Recruits can be physically separated from society, or they can be warned under threat of punishment to stay away from the world's educational media, especially when it might provoke critical thinking."
On the show, the Duggar girls have lamented about living "three hours out from civilization." They homeschool the children, using Christian-based texts for subjects that do not involve religion (more on that later). Despite starring in a reality show, they are not allowed to watch TV, they are restricted from reading certain books, none of the children—including the adult kids— are permitted to have Facebook pages or Twitter accounts. If the older children want to pursue an education, they must do so through correspondence courses from an online Christian university.
2.) Mystical Manipulation As Lifton puts it: "In religious cults, God is ever-present in the workings of the organization. If a person leaves for any reason, accidents or ill-will that may befall them are always attributed to God's punishment on them."
On the season six premiere, Jinger, 18, the arty one who wants to be a photographer, said that she desperately wants to get out of her small town and live in the city. Her sister reminded her that that might not be part of God's plan.
"If you didn't get that, the Lord can be working and teaching you something in that area."
Jinger robotically responded, "Yes… I need to work on my contentment!"
3.) Demand for Purity In a cult, everything is broken down into good and evil, black and white to make the "right" decision seem "obvious." With guilt and shame used as tactics to control members, purity can only be achieved by living according to the cult's ideology.
The Duggars are not allowed to wear shorts or go to the beach. They wear special swimsuits that cover the majority of their bodies.
They are not allowed to date freely. On an episode of 19 Kids and Counting, when asked what it's like to date a Duggar girl, Jill responded, "Talk to my dad. He knows what we're looking for in a guy and future spouse."
Michelle Duggar actually wrote a list of rules for how a woman is to behave as a wife, that includes everything from reassuring his position of authority to styling her hair.
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