My problem with them isn’t that they choose to have a large family. That is their prerogative. My problem is that they and others in the quiverful movement try to advance large families as the proper way to go, based on a rather broad interpretation of a few passages in the Bible.

I think it is irresponsible to try to convince people that they are just supposed to pop out kids as fast as possible, given that most people cannot support large families properly in this day and age.

Moreover, I think it is disingenuous for them to hold themselves up as an example of how to do it, when in fact much of the reason they are able to is because they have TV shows, they sell books and other merchandise. In short, they are making money OFF their large family, something that many others cannot do.

They want a large family, fine. But for all in the quiverful movement, it should NOT be advanced as the PROPER lifetstyle. It should not be advanced as a godly requirement of us to have large families. If the quiverful movement were simply a support group and a networking group for people who WANT to have large families, I would be fine with that. The Duggars and so many others, though, are trying to advance an agenda that makes no sense for most people. And in the Duggars’ case, they are also doing so for their personal gain.