Happy Mother’s Day: Arkansas Woman Pregnant With 18th Child
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - It’s a happy Mother’s Day for an Arkansas woman—she’s pregnant with her 18th child.
Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year’s Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.
“We’ve had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us,” she said, laughing.
The Duggars’ oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.
The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children—whose names start with the letter J—are home-schooled.
Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.
The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores—or “jurisdictions”—are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a “jurisdiction swap,” where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.
“The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass,” she said. “The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms,” among other chores.
Duggar said she’s six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they’ll keep having children as long as God wills it.
“The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated,” Jim Bob Duggar said. “Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen.”
The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.
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May 9th, 2008 at 6:26 amLiberal narcissists will say that these people are selfish repugnican bible beaters trying to overpopulate the planet with their hillbilly spawn. Just watch.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:11 amLife as they choose, what a country and responsibility to go round. I’ll bet they are LDS.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:58 amBirth canal the size of a trash can.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:16 amJust because they have 18 kids does not mean that they are LDS. Yeah Mormons have lots of kids, but so do Catholics or any other religous group that is opposed to birth control.
The father’s name is Jim Bob.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:25 amThe 18th baby just walked out. and then slapped the doctor
May 9th, 2008 at 9:43 amI have no problem with this as long as we’re not paying for it.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:02 amWill the 18th be named Jehoshaphat?
May 9th, 2008 at 11:03 amYes, we all know what Margaret “Hitler’s Darling” Sanger would have said about this.
Those kids will really need to learn self-sufficiency cuz the parents will be utterly helpless to support them.
God bless them for producing Americans, a job the selfish self lovin’ metro lefties won’t do.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:03 pmThe best part is that eighteen God-fearing Conservative votes for future use. Somewhere out there, there’s some libbie manhater having her 18th abortion.
By the way, the Duggars’ are Conservative Baptists for anyone interested.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:42 pm————————————————————
That was both my Grandmothers’ belief.
My Dad’s mom came from the Pa. mountains near Cook Forest. Including herself, there were 7 kids when her mother died suddenly and she (my grandmother) had to quit school to raise the kids and take care of their dad who worked the farm and in the mine. She married and didn’t have her first until she was 20 … she had 6 total … one after the other.
My Mom’s mom came from post WWI Hungary. She was one of 7, 4 dying in Europe due to child illnesses and such. She married at 20 and had he first of 7 at 21.
My Mom and Dad had 4 … but 3 that survived (the one after me too small a preemie) … Mom remarried after the fiasco that was called a divorce and had 2 more with her second husband who already had 4.
Dad remarried to a woman who had 3 … they chose NOT to reproduce.
I, of course as you know have 3 … (but actually lost one a few years before my special Lizzie … However, we would have been done at 3 no matter what/who.)
And then, during my last pregnancy 8 yrs. ago, it was God’s Will that I escort my husband to the urologist’s office for his surgery …
Bless the Duggars and their children …
I confess to being too self-centered a person for that many …
May 9th, 2008 at 1:36 pmDrillanwr,
And then, during my last pregnancy 8 yrs. ago, it was God’s Will that I escort my husband to the urologist’s office for his surgery …
I’ve never seen my wife so gleeful when God willed her to be my escort!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:03 pmKids are useless until they’re tall enough to wash the top of the car. Having said that, it would rock to field a football with the same name on every jersey.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:17 pm