Too Many Children?

[Sally]

I am suspicious of the way the Duggars have opened up their family for public consumption. I am also skeptical of the reasons they hold for increasing their family size; I think simply increasing the number of children is their primary goal.

I hold the view that married couples must be open to life, because marriage is ordered to the procreation of offspring. While couples must be open to life, they are also required to provide for the spiritual and material needs of their children. For instance, though the Duggars' children don't appear threadbare or disheveled, I think the parents' reliance on the older children to provide a parental role to younger siblings is troubling.

Too many children? I think it's up to each couple to carefully discern how many children they can support, based on the physical or psychological conditions of the parents and varying external factors.

[la bombe]

I think the 'parental time' thing is also a BS argument. I think the reason kids today are so immature well into adulthood is because of constant hand-holding by their parents. The other extreme, of no discipline or rules set, is not good either, but kids who are allowed a degree of independence seem to learn self-reliance and mature faster and become better adjusted adults.

It's not about "hand-holding". Infants and young children require parental attention, nurturing and guidance for the sake of their physical, mental and emotional development. Children can learn to be independent and self-reliant with a strong parental relationship. However, I am wary of any situation where a young child literally has to schedule blocks of time with their parents.

I think the parents' reliance on the older children to provide a parental role to younger siblings is troubling.

I agree. I think there's no problem with having a strong family unit where tasks are distributed to children, but in this particular household, the children themselves do the bulk of the work and parenting. And not surprisingly, the girls bare most of the responsibility. The older children are responsible for most of the cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing too. They're even in charge of tutoring their younger siblings (the kids are home-schooled).

[antonio]

I know it's a desperate measure, but if another races continue on overcrowding the world, we should give up and do the same, at least the next (sooner or later) demographical catastrophe (maybe not caused but acelerated by climate change) will give nicer cadavres.

[Debaser11]

I'll get you to the US and hook u up with a hot mexican. We need more Serb-Mexican babies.

Those Mexican women you fancy are very much in the minority. Most Mexican women I see are short, fat, and ugly. That being said, there are tons of beautiful Mexican women but their beauty is typically of a different variety than some of these outliers I see posted. I'm not saying this all to burst your bubble (as I think the women you found are indeed attractive as are many pure mestizos in their own right), but you're better off going to Spain or Italy to find the type of look you're after given what you post.

[SwordoftheVistula]

I think the parents' reliance on the older children to provide a parental role to younger siblings is troubling.

the children themselves do the bulk of the work and parenting. And not surprisingly, the girls bare most of the responsibility. The older children are responsible for most of the cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing too. They're even in charge of tutoring their younger siblings (the kids are home-schooled).

What's wrong with that? I think it's an excellent opportunity for the kids to learn responsibility and skills at that age. The skills they learn will help them in raising their own children, and developing responsibility at an early age will help them in the workplace.

[Debaser11]

What makes you think that I think "gettin' some" is some form of fulfillment? Anyone can land a broad.

[la bombe]

What's wrong with that? I think it's an excellent opportunity for the kids to learn responsibility and skills at that age. The skills they learn will help them in raising their own children, and developing responsibility at an early age will help them in the workplace.

Developing responsibility =/= doing most of the parental work. To me it's not fair that they have to spend the majority of their youth parenting their younger siblings because mommy and daddy refuse to stop endangering mommy's life with more and more pregnancies.

Says a bitter white male who hasn't gotten some in a good while.

Plz keep that bullshit out of this thread and insult people elsewhere. Kthnx.

[Austin]

I want three girls and two boys and always have. I have three brothers. I have 47 cousins in all of various ages.

I don't see the problem with it honestly if the parents are willing to accept what goes with it. The argument that "it burdens the system" is bogus anyways as the system is weighed down/abused by minority child-factories anyways.

[Debaser11]

Again, if whites decide not to have children, they are only tacitly agreeing to hand the world over to non-whites who do not have our interests at heart.

[SwordoftheVistula]

Developing responsibility =/= doing most of the parental work. To me it's not fair that they have to spend the majority of their youth parenting their younger siblings because mommy and daddy refuse to stop endangering mommy's life with more and more pregnancies.

Well, it works well for them. They're all quite happy with their lives and well adjusted. So they do chores and play with their siblings? This is good for them.