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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
guthmund, unfortunately yes that was for you, I just went back and re read your post and I originally read it in the wrong context....Im sorry  |
Please don't be. I went back and re-read it and if I hadn't known what I meant, I probably would've read it that way too.....does that make any sense?
brian and Medusa brought up an interesting point that I think I'd like to say something about. 16 kids require a lot of attention, supervision, 'correction' (as Mrs. Jim Bob says so eloquently on the website), I just imagine that somewhere some kid is getting the short end of the parental stick. If he/she isn't being brushed off by Dad, whose busy off running for something somewhere, or Mom, flailing under her mountains of laundry, then it's the bigger kids, who have to spend their time making sure little Timmy brushes his teeth, combs his hair and isn't sticking something dangerous up his nose. From reading the schedule they've set up it seems to me she's not raising kids, but rather her personal troupe of house cleaners, baby sitters and for lucky Jill and Jana, fabulous job-training in the food service industry.
Not to mention the accomodations. 16 kids and two adults in a three bedroom house? Wow. I live in a three bedroom house. With my two roommates it seems cramped come late Saturday night when we're all there. I can't imagine 15 more of us packed in for any extended amount of time.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is... I said earlier that I didn't have a problem with them having dozens of kids as long as they were taken care of accordingly, but if the Jim Bob's are sloughing off their parental duty to the elder kids and stacking them in like cord wood to sleep each night...It just doesn't seem all that responsible to me.
Last...very superficial...Married folks who call each other 'mommy' and 'daddy,' creep me the fuck out.