Isn’t this something (growing super long hair) a lot of very religious rural women do? Is it related to the Bible admonition of a women’s hair being her “crowning glory”, or is it just a country girl thing?
Long hair is sexy!
You know, with them currently living in a 3 bedroom 2 bath home with 16 kids, WHEN and WHERE do they make more babies?
Ha- I hate to point this out, but saying stuff like that is The First Sign of Old-Man- ;)age. 
Wow. From their website, they call single women “Muffin Mixes” and children “Mini Muffins”
I had no idea this movement existed.
Also:
The Duggars aren’t very good QuiverFulls, are they?
Nationalvanguard dot org also has an artcle congratulating Momma on doing her part to keep “White living space” full of white babies.
That bothered me the first time I ever heard about this family. The household chores are divided strictly along gender lines – the boys help build the house, the girls cook and make clothes. :dubious:
Blaron, that only supposes that one’s values are genetic. It’s very possible for one of the Duggar offspring to leave the fold someday, or for someone to rebel somewhere down the line.
Fiercely submissive?
“C’mon, don’t just sit there with your slippers and your newspaper. Order me around, you lazy bstrd!”
This is what I’d look for…if I were adopting a dog.
“There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children, her uterus fell out. WHOA!”
For what it’s worth, I’m a hardcore atheist but I don’t see anything wrong with these people raising their children to value their beliefs. Why’s it okay to bash people for the “immoral” and “irresponsible” way they’re raising their children, when you probably wouldn’t want people talking about you that way? It also seems that people are just digging for reasons this family would have to be dysfunctional – not enough toys at Christmas? Please! If that’s the worst crime the Duggars inflict upon their children, I’d say all sixteen of 'em are gonna be just fine.
Re: the Stormfront stuff, why should that be an issue? The Duggars may be hardcore Christians, but it doesn’t follow Xtians = white supremacists. I haven’t seen anything from either Ma or Pa Duggar that suggests that they’re racist or support Stormfront in any way.
I think it’s more that the girls are not given any other choice or education beyond “housewife.” NOT that there’s anything wrong with a person choosing to be a houswife. But the boys are given the option of going to college, and their daughters aren’t. That’s just wrong, in my view.
The fact of the matter is that somewhere out there, someone is talking about you that way. No matter what you do in life, someone’s not going to like it. As long as you’re in the clear legally, and no one is trying to harm you or take away your right to live your life as you see fit, then what’s the problem? It’s unrealistic to expect people not to be leary of non-mainstream behavior.
Agreed, but it goes much further than that. These throwback parents are indoctrinating their children with the notion that women should be “intensely accommodating, ferociously acquiescent, and brutally compliant.” That kind of belief system–and its day-to-day realities–is damn backward and sounds like emotional enslavement. When I see brutal compliance, I wonder about coercion and the absence of a healthy, individualized self.
What happens to the Duggan girl who defies this God-issued edict? Does she get Jim Bob’s backhand, his glare, does she get chastised that she is defying the will of the almighty? Or is the psychological condition more insidious? This mind-melding stuff is best reserved for cults and, no, I think the odds are against any of these girls rebelling is sadly low.
Not genetic per se, but if you have an 18 year opportunity to indoctrinate someone chances are pretty good they’ll stick with your indoctrination. How do you think the Amish are still around?
It can be a religious thing. All the Pentecostal women, for example, I have ever known, grow their hair out long. And pouf it up fiercely in the front, but that’s not a length issue.
Some people dig it. The Amish children often rebel in their later teenage years, some dig their newfound freedom and leave and other return because they liked being Amish.
While the idea of having to restrict myself to a 19th century way of living doesn’t sound much fun, the sense of community they must have is appealing.
You don’t get to have and keep 16 kids unless you’re doing a damn good job of parenting them. I would imagine that the state has been over this family with a fine-toothed comb more times that you can mention.
It’s not the way I’d raise my kids, but since I don’t want them to interfere in my life, I don’t see why I should get to interfere in theirs.
To be honest, raising 16 kids the way they do is amazing…you want irresponsible, try my patient who had 14 siblings, all raised in a 3 room Dublin tenement in the 1950s, his dad was an alcoholic who worked on the docks, and his mother sold flowers from a street stall.
If they can afford their children, are treating them properly and they have a religious objection to birth control, I don’t really see how it’s anyone else’s business what they do.
But really, after 2 twin and 12 singleton pregnancies in less than 20 years, I can’t see her reproductive organs able to take much more before something ruptures or prolapses.
I guess that will be Gods way of saying, “Your quiver is FULL.”
I hope all of the kids move far away from their folks when they grow up. I don’t mean that they should flee their parents. It’s just that if they all get married to folks living near them, the genetic diversity of their home county will shrink and everyone in their town will be everyone elses first cousin.