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Re: 17 Kids and Counting
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Originally Posted by dizzyde
My biggest and really only problem with this situation, and with any situation where people have a lot of children (providing of course that they have the finances to support them all the way through their childhoods, and hopefully educations) is this, at a certain point the older siblings have to start giving up their childhoods in order for the house to run. The older brothers and sisters have to become surrogate parents, because there is no way that mom and dad have the time or the energy to take care of them all. You see this in this Duggar house, they call them "buddies" I think, which is just a euphemism for "I have to take care of this child".
I have a real problem with that. I think some of these girls are going to be so tired of taking care of children by the time they are adults, that they are not going to want to have their own children for a long time, if ever. Just my two cents...  |
I don't agree. I think it teaches responsibility.
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