The Duggars: A Family of Hope
Posted by Adam Graham in : Baseball, Family MattersIn the last post I gave a round up of all the various and sundry liberals that arrayed themselves against the Duggars, who just celebrated the birth of their 17th Child. Of course, I won’t leave the matter there. There’s plenty to be said positive and was said. Many well-wishers.
Said one blogger :
I am so inspired by the Duggar family of Arkansas. This week they welcomed their 17th child, a beautiful little girl named Jennifer. It was a Discocer Channel Special a few years ago about their family that not only put the idea of wanting more children into my heart, but also inspired me to return to my faith in God and to get right in my walk with Him.
Observed another:
The Duggars seem to be good parents, seem to be able to provide for the children they have, seem to be thrilled with each birth. I sure hope all is as it seems, because I know how difficult it was on my Mom just with her eight.
God bless you Michelle Duggar with all the love and patience and strength you need.
Another is encouraged by the Duggars’ dedication:
I know I’m surprised. Here are seventeen children who will not lapse, without a fight, into decadent hedonism. No one knows what the future holds, and some may fall away, but the seed which the Duggers will plant will never be uprooted, and though some may leave the path, this now convinced Catholic knows that the path will never leave them.
And then there’s this comment from Peter, a father of four sons:
Jennifer and I have a lot of catching up to do.
Ah, the competitive side’s alive and well with that one. j/k. 
Actually, I think the situation has to be one of admiration. There’s the prodigiousness of the feat itself: 17 healthy children, 15 healthy pregnancies. There’s the admirable provider skills needed to support them. There’s the the parenting skills that’ve stopped their from becoming an unmanagable mess.
While most of us won’t want 17, or 10, or an extremely large number. With population control and the social pressure for less kids, the public example of the Duggars encourages folks who want more children, but know that once you get past two, people start to whisper behind your back (even in the church,) God bless them for the encouragement they’re providing.
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Comment by Isis Jones
Does no one understand the strain they put upon resources when they continue to have more and more children? Our natural resources are limited and although the West continues to thoughtlessly use them up, those of third world countries suffer. The Duggers are a perfect example of individuals who have no care for our planet and others in it. And although religous individual may praise their lifestyle, stating that it is exactly what God “wants”, how do they not understand they the Duggers are encouraging the destruction of the very planet that your so-called “God” created? Overpopulation is the single greatest problem on this earth and commending it is going to be our very doom. Almost 500 million around the world are starving or under-fed and children in poorer, developing countries are about five times more likely to die of illness at birth than those in developed country. The Duggers can flaunt their empty “success” at having increased their family population but what of those families who cannot survive because of the careless way in which the West seems to act? Argue with me all you wish but facts will remain facts.