Mom, 40, gives birth to 17th child.  Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James, 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2, and newborn, Jennifer.  My question is WHY?

Comments

[Sarah]

OMG! Not her again! She was in the news when she was having her 15th. I got into an argument with one of my "traditional" catholic aunts about this lady. Seriously. She needs to STOP procreating. She doesn't even mother her children, she has her older children feeding, changing, and playing with all those poor little ones and she homeschools ALL of them.

When do they get to just be kids and play with other kids outside their own family? How about introducing them to the rest of the world and showing them there are other things to do and be in life. What is she teaching her girls? Basically, all they're going to be good for is motherhood.

Errrr......don't even get me started on those parents.

[Ann]

OMG, how does she have time to home school? Can you imagine 17 kids -YIKES!

[Sarah]

I watched a special on them a couple years ago and I guess they are going to show more on Discovery soon. Watch it sometime. It's crazy. I tried to be open-minded, but I couldn't help but feel bad for their children. I just don't think it's fair to push parenting on your kids. It's not their responsibility to raise their mother's kids.

[catherine]

Freaks. It is unfair to the older children and just straight up gross.

[Ann]

What gets me is that the fact that they've had 17 children is celebrated.Celebrated! It's irresponsible.

[cat]

They are insane! It is just irresponsible to breed like that in these days of overpopulation. How could they possibly take real care of those children--emotionally and psychologically?
I find it a constant challenge with two babies.
I'd love to see the homeschooling curriculum--when man roamed the earth with the dinosaurs...