one messed up family.....


I saw a one hour feature of this family on discovery channel(I think)
yesterday and it was somewhat troubling.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270554,00.html

LITTLE ROCK - The Duggars are once again pulling out the pink ruffles
and lace as they prepare for the birth of baby number 17.

Michelle Duggar said Monday in a telephone interview from her
northwest Arkansas home that the whole family is excited about the
arrival of the baby girl they will name Jennifer Danielle, keeping
with the family tradition of giving the child a name that begins with
J.

Jennifer Danielle is due July 27.

Duggar, 40, said she was doing fine with her latest pregnancy.
Although she has gotten older since she had her first child at age 21,
she said, she still has plenty of energy and only minor aches and
pains.

"With each baby, God's given me the grace and the energy to keep
going, and they really keep you going," she said. "I feel like a 20-
year-old kid, but I'm realizing my body isn't that 20-year-old. I
don't get up and play the games as hard as I used to, and I try to be
a little more careful."

Duggar said she and husband Jim Bob, a former state representative and
U.S. senate candidate, view each phase of their children's lives as an
adventure.

"I've never been a mom of a 19-year-old young man and a 17-year-old
young man and woman, so every phase of parenting is an exciting
adventure" Duggar said.

The Duggars home school their children at their 7,000-square foot home
in Tontitown. The couple's oldest child, Joshua, is 19, and their
youngest, Johanna Faith, is 19 months. Their children include two sets
of twins.

Because the couple sees each child as a blessing from God, Michelle
Duggar said they will, as long as she is able, accept each child they
are given.

"Really, our heart is we would love to receive whatever gifts or
blessings the Lord wants to give us," she said. "But I love the baby
stage and I can't imagine life without having a toddler in the house."

Two of the Duggar children, Janna, 17, and Jill, 15, attended
Johanna's birth at St. Mary's hospital in Rogers in 2005. Duggar said
the two girls, who both have an interest in becoming midwives or
nurses, may attend Jennifer's birth as well.

And though she has 16 children, Duggar said that each child is so
different there are times when she feels like she knows nothing about
parenting.

"Here I am a mama with her 17th child on the way, and so many people
think 'Oh you've got it all figured out,"' Duggar said. "I am still
learning. Just when I think I've got something figured out I try it on
the next one and it doesn't work."

The Duggars' other children are John David, 17; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13;
Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 8; Jedidiah, 8; Jason,
7, James, 5; Justin, 4; and Jackson Levi, 2


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