At any rate, I was flipping channels last night and happened to catch another Duggar show. Thinking it was another of their specials, I started watching and quickly - oh so quickly - got sucked into the newest Duggar Vortex. 17 Kids and Counting.
Now, I think these people are freaking certifiable. I have enough trouble with 3 kids. I'm also a little (ok more than a little) freaked out by their lifestyle. There is just something so....so....cultish about their family. The girls all dressed in skirts and long long hair. The boys in khakis and polos. The constant religious aspect. The homeschooling. I know there are people who read this who homeschool *cough*Tina*cough* and I truly do say to each their own but, when you add homeschooling to this family. At any rate, I think you get the point that I think they are strange.
OK - I'll say it. They flat out piss me off. They have all these kids and say that its "God's Will" but as far as I can see from watching any of the shows, they don't raise all these kids. Each little kid is assigned a buddy - an older sibling - to help care for them. To me, you are forcing these kids to become parents. If you want to have 100 kids, GREAT! Have them! BUT, I think you have to be prepared to raise them yourself. Your children didn't have these kids - you did!
Now, I feel better getting that off my chest. I'm sure there are those who will not agree with me and that's ok. That's what makes this country great - we can all have our own
However, in watching one of the episodes last night, I was left totally speechless. And for anyone who doesn't know me, that doesn't happen often. The Duggar's oldest son has a girlfriend. One he wants to start dating seriously. What does he do? He calls the girl's parents and asks if he can have her hand in marriage so that they can date seriously. OK - strange but I get all that. He flies to Florida and proposes and then...he hugs her. He later explains that they will not kiss until their wedding. What the HELL??? I get the no sex thing. I can even respect that. I couldn't do it but I do get it. I even understand the engagement thing. What I don't understand is, you are 20 years old, you've asked this woman to marry you and all you can do with her is hug her and hold her hand? That, I do NOT get.
You will notice that I tend to shy away from 2 things on this blog - politics (I'm a democrat) and religion (I'm a Catholic) since both are pretty personal things and both are things that you generally will not change someones mind on. The Duggars fall into my no religion rule but I just had to blog about this. I give them a lot of credit in that they seem a very happy
**stepping down from my soapbox with the promise to return to regularly scheduled programming**
2 comments:
How sweet, a shout out in your post. :P We homeschool for no real reason. We started due to moving after the start of the school year, and I just kept at it. Seeing how well M did last year made it easier to decide to do it again this year. It's not for a religious reason at all here.
The Duggars are a little odd, but some of what they do makes sense. Shoot, they have 17 kids and live in a 3000+ sq ft. house that is paid for and built by their own hands? Color me impressed. I totally don't agree with the kids raising kids aspect at all.
The no kissing until marriage thing is a radical step that's sweeping the ultra religious community. It's their way to keep themselves pure for their spouse, in every sense of the word. I don't know if I agree with it, but I do think a lot of crap happening in today's culture could be avoided if more people tried it.
Just my .02. :)
It's very different than life at the Sasha house. I can't bring myself to watch the show. And no kissing.... how would you know for sure? It's the kiss that tells!
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