giving birth to 16th child

Hell yeah. at that point I'd be like # 13!!! Stop hitting your brother, # 12!! # 8 Stop eating crayons! hahaha

 

Yeah, where do poor people get off having kids, right?

You know, in the real world, things come up and people have to deal with them. People can't just sit on welfare indefinitely and keep having babies. That's a misconception that a lot of people have.

When I was a teenager living in a housing project, my neighbor had a baby and she had to return to her high school classes when that baby was 3 days old because her family was on welfare. Some vacation, huh?

Also, anyone who could make more money working would do that. It is very diificult to live on the amount of money welfare gives people. Also, people are required to look for work while they're on it.

Once you start saying that poor people shouldn't have kids you get on a slippery slope. Who should be allowed to have kids? Who gets to decide? Why? I don't like it.

 

So well behaved that I wondered what was wrong with them. Are they under the influence? of drugs? of mind-control techniques? What the hell?

The whole thing looked like a cult to me.

Is that mom so desperate for attention that she has to keep getting pregnant over and over? Someone needs to say to her, "You're special, even if you only have 16 kids. Really. You don't need to have any more."

Or maybe she needs a new hobby, other than mating, I mean. I could teach her to knit, or sew, or crochet, or bead.

And all of their names start with J? How degrading! It's as if they know that they're going to call their kids the wrong name, so starting with the same sound gives them a second to figure out which kid they're talking to. "Jjjjjjjerome! Come in here!"

I don't think that they should get all sorts of positive attention for breeding out of control. They're freaks.

 

Yeah, I'd make 'em wear big numbers on their shirts like people running in a marathon.

It reminds me of that Dr. Seuss story "Too Many Daves".

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave had 23 sons and she named them all Dave? Well, she did, and that wasn't a smart thing to do. You see, when she wants on and calls out, "Yoohoo, come into the house, Dave." she doesn't get one. All 23 Daves of hers come on the run....

(I think I have the whole thing memorized. It's one of my kids' favorites.)

 

It is a religious belief. They think god gives them these children, and to interfere with god's plan (like with birth control) is a sin. They have sex, and if they get pregnant it is because god willed it to be so.

 

Well, my client gave birth to her son Thursday night and had her tubes tied on Friday. So I guess 16 is the end for her. So far DYFS has a hold on the baby and they are not letting him come home with the mom. The lawyer said they will probably let him come back to her on Wednesday or Thursday. They want to take legal custody of him and then they will let her have physical custody. There are so many better ways they could have done this. But this judge is so biased he doesn't care what he is doing to the baby as long as he can punish the mom.

 

I understand that. I just don't think that they should get lots of positive attention in the media for it.

 

but look at how all the media attention is going lately? we're watching shows about those little blonde nitwits that sing hitler's praises (quite off-key I might add)....no one cares about giving them good/bad media coverage....no one thinks anymore. it's sad.

 

media (news) attention isn't supposed to be positive or negative. it's just supposed to represent facts and allow people to decide for themselves....

 

They're supposed to try to be nonbiased, but they are exercising a bias just by choosing which stories to tell us. And in the title they choose and the way they present it. Think about it. I can't remember what they called it, but I know it wasn't 'Overpopulation Crisis at the Blahblah Household'. Right? They tried to present them as a happy family and Dateline didn't show us the children being forced to sit silently on their mats or whatever.

Nonbias is an important thing to strive for, but is it, ultimately, attainable? Everyone is biased and discriminates in many ways. It's how we are able to tell large from small and orange from blue.

I suppose they could have been more encouraging to the family. That's true. I think, though, that this family gets off on getting attention for having lots of babies and homeschooling their many children and their weird discipline methods. They like the attention. That's why they have a website. I think that putting them on TV just encourages them. I, personally, don't think we should encourage them.