 Re: The Duggars 17th baby is due this week!!!
I personally have seen all the TV specials on them, and I think some people's issues with them is that it seems their children go way above 'contributing to the household'. There is a big difference between having the kids help out a bit with the dishes, laundry, or for them to pick up their toys or make their beds, that type of thing, and what the Duggars do. They make their older children have an extreme amount of responsibility for cooking, cleaning and also watching the younger children. While I think it is fair to expect older children to help out to some degree, they are almost forced to be mini-parents, and that to me does not seem right.
I also have problems with as someone else called, the "Groupthink" mentality. But I also agree that these kids are probably better off then many other children in this country, and to each his own, if they want to have zero kids or 1 or 3 or 15. |