Comments | dilemma: so that's why i didn't get a uterus

dilemma

so that's why i didn't get a uterus

Aug 04, 2007 17:48

Some woman in Arkansas got like, ten people's supply of uterus. Baby number seventeen was just born.Apparently she's a freaky fundie Christian and believes that she has to be a baby factory for her husband. They have a church, too. Their own. I'm not even sure where you get a church, but they have one. Maybe it's a mail-order church, the sort that ( Read more... )

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marcelle42 August 4 2007, 22:23:46 UTC

Oh, Liz and I watch the shows about them on the Discovery Channel. I glower. Then I remind myself that believing in reproductive choice means honoring ALL reproductive choices, including the choice to have 17 children. Then I glower some more, and blame them for global warming/overpopulation.

*sigh*

I try to remember that several family members/family friends have 8+ kids, who are all homeschooled. And that they are my family, and I need to love them in that unconditional way (if not in any other way). But I am SO tempted just to go up to one of them and go, "Ummm.... you *do* know what causes that, right?"

dilemma August 4 2007, 22:43:21 UTC

Hey, I'm all for choice. I'd defend her legal right to make any dumb choice she wants with her reproductive system. Doesn't mean I'd defend her decision.

*hug* I didn't know you had people like them in your family. I'm sorry. :(

(but if you do that question thing, I want a video. because hi-larious)

marcelle42 August 4 2007, 23:22:54 UTC

Yeah... when I'm pissed at my mom, it helps to remember that she's the intellectual, lefty, non-religious one of the family (despite the fact that she's a Republican who took us to church every week for most of my life). I mean, my God, she moved out of hicksville, south jersey, where the rest of her enormous extended family lives, and got married to a Jew. She sent us, her little half-breed kids, to non-parochial private school. She's totally the black sheep, even if she seem painfully backward to me.

yechezkiel August 5 2007, 01:53:07 UTC

I think the show is edited to make them look as freakish as possible; they're certainly weird, and even unhealthy, but I don't know if making a show to expose that is the most ethical thing, even if they are volunteering.

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chickwithmonkey August 4 2007, 23:36:26 UTC

My issue is that there is no possible way that two parents can give 17 children the attention they deserve. Sure, the older ones can take care of the younger ones, but holy balls, kids deserve the attention of their parents. I'm a huge proponent of the 1:1 parent to kid ratio. Even three seems like a lot to me.

That oldest kid? The mom has been pregnant for literally half of that kid's life. The younger kids, probably more. That just blows my mind.

*sigh* But yes. I support her right to reproductive choice.

yechezkiel August 5 2007, 02:17:58 UTC

People from big families--either immediate, or raised with a large extended family--are the most well-adjusted people I know, on average. I was never given a whole lot of individual attention as a child, but I was never short on the companionship of siblings (2), cousins (numerous) or children of close family friends who practically were family (innumerable).

9jack9 August 5 2007, 03:51:00 UTC

The Duggars are adherents of the Quiverfull movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

If you work out the numbers for typical gestation time, Michelle Duggar has been pregnant for a total of 11.25 years (2 sets of twins, 15 pregnancies).

shydescending August 5 2007, 06:09:42 UTC

I'm actually more surprised that you're just now hearing about this ;)