Some Duggar Links |
I hate making this its own post… but I didn’t want to get in trouble by posting these on TWoP. Just a few Duggar-related links I found in my travels today…
- The Truth About the Duggars: No one in Arkansas likes the Duggars (especially this guy). [Edit - 8/5] Just found out that this link is dead and the whole blog has been removed. Here’s Google’s cached link, and I’ll save the text in case it ever goes away… [/Edit]
- Getting Off Track: Born-again Christian deacon says the Duggars aren’t really following the Bible by having as many kids as possible. (This isn’t the first time he’s blogged about them, either.)
- The Duggars Make Reading a Priority: The Duggars wrote a blog post for Barnes & Noble?! Also, reading is on the kids’ big colorful schedule, and Michelle seems surprised that some of them read more than their prescribed amount. What else do you expect them to do? Besides housework and a few minutes of “school” on the computer, they must be bored out of their skulls!
- Pigeon Forge, Tennessee’s ‘18 Kids and Counting’ Project Grows to Two Episodes: The two latest episodes of 18 Kids and Counting, featuring the Duggars’ visit to Pigeon Forge and Dollywood, were actually a marketing scheme for the town, developed by the Pigeon Forge Department of Tourism and ad agency BOHAN. Pigeon Forge basically got $2.4 million of airtime for $5000 (the cost of entertaining the Duggars during their stay).
Not entirely accurate as far as my view of the Duggars, but I can see where you’d get that impression.
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.
Thanks for your comment! I 100% agree with your thoughts. Sorry my original description of your blog post came across wrong – it’s hard to distill all that into one sentence! – but yes, I totally understand what you’re saying. They’re picking and choosing which lines from the Bible they want to follow, and basing their whole lifestyle on a very limited view.
Yeah, “teasers” aren’t easy to write. I’m an editor and writer professionally and they can kick my butt, too. :-)
It’s been awhile since I’ve been to your blog. I’m SO SAD that the first link you posted about the Duggars is no longer up. I just read “No one in Arkansas likes the Duggars (especially this guy)” and my attention was on high alert. Oh well. lol
Oh no, I didn’t realize that – the whole blog is gone! It was a good post, basically this guy who lives in Arkansas was complaining about the Duggars and how they’re not representative of people from their state. I found the Google cached version and added the link above, so hopefully that sticks around for a while. I was just reading another blog last night from someone who lives in their area, and they said that if you’re in a restaurant and you see them walk in, you should just leave. (They mentioned a taco place on $.39 Taco Night, and the Duggars came in and ordered like 100 tacos and everyone left.)