I'm Sick of the Michelle Duggar Posts Trashing a Woman for the Children she Produces!

[wickerwoman]

119. Here's what bugs me:

1. The only reason MD (and women in the past) is able to have 20+ children is because the older girls are essentially raising the younger kids.
2. The older girls are homeschooled. They spent most of their teens at home all day cooking, doing laundry and looking after toddlers. If they wanted something else with their life, they have been denied the education that would realistically allow them to achieve it.
3. MD knows absolutely nothing about the majority of her children. Each show they spend about two minutes where MD talks about one kid in particular. She knows a bit about some of the older kids but once you get past four or five it's always "Jxxx is a quiet little guy..." You get the very clear impression that she regularly can't remember the names of the middle kids.They have Jim Bob on tape calling them the wrong names or fumbling to remember the right name on a pretty regular basis. How is that fair to any kid to be raised by a parent who can't even remember your damn name and who you need to make an appointment to see?
4. All of those kids are getting a pretty rubbish education on top of limited parental attention. In one episode when MD is in the hospital (see 5 and 6 below) one of the boys, who was about 11 at the time, was writing a letter to her and had literally the handwriting of a four year old and every other word misspelled.
5. MD has been told repeatedly by doctors not to have more children. Her last child was born extremely premature and is likely to have health issues her entire life. The condition that caused her last child to be born premature makes it likely that future children will be born even more premature and more likely to be disabled. I think choosing to continue to bring children into the world knowing there is a very strong likelihood that they will be severely disabled sucks and is selfish.
6. MD herself very nearly died having the last child, potentially leaving all those other kids without a mother (although see #1- they're being raised by the older four girls anyway). Choosing to have another kid after that experience is obvious evidence of a break from reality.