The older daughters (not the sons) get stuck raising the rest of the babies as de facto nannies or au pairs. Some great teenage years they must have.
Vs whoring around and getting drunk and pregnant?
I really don’t get where this venom is coming from....
Gee...my mom went back to work and I had to babysit my brother every day after school. It was common for families to do this in the 60's. BTW, my teen years were just fine. We certainly weren't part of a cult.
Maybe you would not want it but they seem happy. Would their teen years be better spent sexting and hooking up with boys, texting mindless gossip to their friends, addicted to Facebook wearing booty shorts and skimpy tops, smoking dope, getting drunk until they vomit, going to college where they can go into enormous debt and be Lesbians Until Graduation? Today’s culture is trash. I do not blame the Duggars for wanting to shield their children from it.
Actually, I don’t have that much of a problem with that. They’ve been to Japan, China, the west coast, South America, the Caribbean - I wish I would have done the things for my teen age years those girls had. I didn’t have half the experiences those girls did.
And as far as “raising children” - that’s how it is. That is what life is, and used to be. Families all used to be much bigger and everyone had to help. They are learning what life is, and they are going to be well prepared. They will know whether or not they really do want children, a few or a lot, and how to care for them.
But it has been easier for them because remember, they’ve been homeschooled, so they didn’t have to do a lot of juggling. I homeschooled my kids, so it all sort of falls in place because outside demands are minimized. When homeschooling is working for you, it really works, and you get a rhythm that just buzzes along. The kids tend to really like it or we wouldn’t do it, and families get very close.
You must not have grown up on a farm. We all had responsibilities. I learned to milk a cow at a very young age. I learned to tell veggies from weeds. I even milked a goat when my older brother had to drink goat’s milk. We worked hard but we played hard, too. Not one person I knew growing up got into trouble of any kind. We were too busy. Kids today do not even know where milk, eggs, veggies, fruit come from. We were outside in nice weather instead of sitting around playing video games or on the computer. I treasure my childhood memories. The Duggars are learning valuable life skills which I can not say of many kids today. They, too, will have wonderful memories.