# The Duggars are expecting again (#20!!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283 "2011-11-08T15:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/41 "2011-11-08T20:56:06Z")
Of course if they really wanted to go O.T. then he could knock up the maids that they might bear children upon her knees. And then they could clean up her knees. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/42 "2011-11-08T20:59:04Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > From the article: > > Oh of course not — that would be absolutely _ludicrous_! An odd number. _chuckles_ One might ponder that if the Today Show’s producers just shook their heads and said, “It’s been done,” maybe they’d stop. I get a distinct whiff of media-whoredom from these people. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/43 "2011-11-08T21:07:44Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > For the record, their children are Joshua, Jana, John-David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger\*, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jedidiah, Jeremiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, Jennifer, Jordyn-Grace and Josie Joshua, 23, appears to be starting an M series. His two kids are Mackynzie [sic] and Michael. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/44 "2011-11-08T21:25:58Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > How, where and when do they find time to fuck? The older kids have to (help) take care of their younger siblings. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/45 "2011-11-08T21:36:48Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > If they’d started with A this one would be a T baby. And risk Sue Grafton suing their ass? No way! ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/46 "2011-11-08T22:00:01Z")
One of my friends suggested Jermajesty. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/47 "2011-11-08T22:06:36Z")
Where’s the pukey smilie? Can she even tell her kids apart? I seem to remember reading she just hands them off to one of the older kids as soon as she drops them. I don’t wish her or her new baby ill, but daaaaaaaaaaaaamn, woman. Why don’t you just spend a little time with the ones you already have instead of spending all your time on pregnancy bed rest? I really feel sorry for her daughters. Some role model. Cats are better mothers that that stupid slitch. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/48 "2011-11-08T22:11:26Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > If they’d started with A this one would be a T baby. > > All disclaimers in place of wishing them well (“especially since your business does not conflict with my own”) and I hope it’s a healthy hale hearty and hetero kid, but… > > The Duggars have a baby a year because of Old Testament verses ('be fruitful and multiply", “quiver full of joy”, etc.). They’re Young Earth Creationists (planned a [huge family outing](http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2008/08/16/the-famous-duggars-visit-creation-museum/)to visit the [Creationist Museum](http://creationmuseum.org/)), they’re Fundamentalist evangelicals who believe the Bible is the answer to our time, etc.. (To their credit if they’re homophobic, racist, apocalyptic or other nonsense often affiliated with the evangelical movement they’re at least quiet/off-camera about it.) > > Does anybody else think it strange that when their last child was born more than 3 months premature they let the hospital employ machines and procedures developed by godless secular scientists to keep the baby alive rather than just use prayer and fasting? (Of course prayer and fasting didn’t stop God from killing David and Bathsheba’s baby, but at least His will was done.) Yep, that’s always :dubious: me, too. On top of that: a highly publicized (and televised - right?) pregnancy for a high-risk woman? And then another, and then another? At some point, during one of these pregnancies, things aren’t going to go so camera-ready. It seems like an inevitablity to me that, eventually, something will go very badly wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/49 "2011-11-08T22:19:48Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > One of my friends suggested Jermajesty. I believe that name is taken by one of Jermaine Jackson’s kids. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/50 "2011-11-08T22:30:36Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > The older kids have to (help) take care of their younger siblings. Like any big family does. There is also ‘this is Mommy and Daddy time so unless it’s a life or death situation don’t bother us’. Mom was the oldest of nine, and there were larger families who lived up the road so I’ve heard the stories and had my own taste at family gatherings, being the oldest cousin it was often delegated to me to help keep watch. That’s just how you make a big family work. At 45 and after 21 pregnancies (only one miscarriage right?) it’s time to give it a rest but they probably won’t stop until she dies or finally can’t conceive anymore. This one will have to be a c-section won’t it? The last one was an emergency due to pre-eclampsia so with this one that would make 5. I’m amazed she can even conceive naturally by now. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/51 "2011-11-08T22:42:42Z")
> [@Flutterby](#): > > Like any big family does. There is also ‘this is Mommy and Daddy time so unless it’s a life or death situation don’t bother us’. Mom was the oldest of nine, and there were larger families who lived up the road so I’ve heard the stories and had my own taste at family gatherings, being the oldest cousin it was often delegated to me to help keep watch. That’s just how you make a big family work. I don’t think most big families have a betting pool for when mom’s uterus will prolapse. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/52 "2011-11-08T22:48:52Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > If they’d started with A this one would be a T baby. That would have been better, in my opinion, than the all-J thing they have going on. It would probably make it easier to remember who’s who. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/53 "2011-11-08T22:52:41Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > …Does anybody else think it strange that when their last child was born more than 3 months premature they let the hospital employ machines and procedures developed by godless secular scientists to keep the baby alive rather than just use prayer and fasting? (Of course prayer and fasting didn’t stop God from killing David and Bathsheba’s baby, but at least His will was done.) Not really. They only have problems with modern medicine when it’s being used to prevent conception or terminate an existing pregnancy. Also I think they’ve gone on record as being against reproductive technology like artificial insemination or IVF. > [@SnakesCatLady](#): > > …I really feel sorry for her daughters. Some role model. Cats are better mothers that that stupid slitch. I very much doubt any of her daughters will have anywhere near as many children as her. At least several of them (especially the older ones) will probally end up not having any children or marrying at all. Also given the odds they have at least one gay son and lesbian daughter. Possibly several of the younger sons if certain theories on fraternal birth order are correct. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Yep, that’s always :dubious: me, too. On top of that: a highly publicized (and televised - right?) pregnancy for a high-risk woman? And then another, and then another? At some point, during one of these pregnancies, things aren’t going to go so camera-ready. It seems like an inevitablity to me that, eventually, something will go very badly wrong. It’s morbid, but yeah I think this woman will end up dying in childbirth. I wonder if they would continue the show after something like that? Even if Jim Bob remarries any chance of the older daughters getting a life of their own would be shot. It’ll be really interesting to see how this family turns out in say 20 yrs or so when most the the kids have entered adulthood. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/54 "2011-11-08T22:59:11Z")
Not trying to dampen the fun, but shoudn’t this me MPTIMS? EDit: Nevermind, I didn’t realize this was a TV show! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/55 "2011-11-08T23:27:15Z")
Has she ever identified which of the daughters are potential queens? That’s going to be a bloody episode. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/56 "2011-11-08T23:48:48Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I don’t think most big families have a betting pool for when mom’s uterus will prolapse. Won’t argue there! Just commenting on how they find the time to make these babies and the passing off of kids on older ones. It’s not uncommon in big families to an extent, but this is taking things to an extreme and I think you’d find a big difference between how my relatives view their mom and the time spent with her compared to these kids with their mom and it’s just sad. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/57 "2011-11-08T23:55:30Z")
Surprising to see that they haven’t already got a Jacob. No Jeffrey, either. For girls names, maybe June or Joanie? They’ve really tapped out all of the reasonably common J names at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/58 "2011-11-08T23:59:15Z")
Jerkov? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/59 "2011-11-09T00:02:40Z")
Janet, Janice, Julia, Juana, Joespehine, Jezebel, Juanita, Jasmine, Jesminder ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283/60 "2011-11-09T00:12:56Z")
I vote Jaqwan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duggars-are-expecting-again-20/602283.md?page=4)