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The redeeming part is how many of those kids are going to turn out to be total anarchist rebels.

Someone listens to NPR.

Amen.

God bless :)

Yeah I heard the story too on NPR this morning. But I've know about the Quiverfull nutters for a while now. Those of us in the CF community take potshots at them occasionally, but it's just too easy to pick on so they're not much fun to play with.

I'm sorry, ladies of Quiverfull. I am more than a walking uterus. When God said, "Be fruitful and multiply" he was talking to the imaginary animals and people from the imaginary creation of the world. NOT YOU.

The QFer's do not define how many kids are too many - god does.

I'm not so sure that God is also willing to feed, cloth, educate, provide healthcare and shelter the babies. Eh, it's like an unfunded mandate from God.




Edited, Mar 25th 2009 6:34pm by Elinda

What's most amusing about Quiverfull is that their most prominent family the Duggars actually have deviated from Quiverfull philosophy.

Quiverfull espouses leaving the number of children a family has in God's hands--which means you don't try to prevent pregnancy, but neither to you try to achieve it:



But the Duggars actually take steps to ensure that more children are conceived, such as limiting breastfeeding to only a few months so that lactational amenorrhea doesn't prevent pregnancy.

Apparently acknowledging that "God" took steps to space out childbearing by limiting the ability to conceive while feeding one's child the way "God" intended doesn't count as following "God's" plan. Who knew?

Now, personally I'm all for anyone having as many or as few children as they desire, but I would desperately love to inform that woman that her uterus is not, in fact, a clown car.

Edited, Mar 25th 2009 9:44am by Ambrya

People who are not them.

I don't think anyone is arguing that it IS. One can find something creepy and weird without calling for it to be banned or made illegal.

Well, liberals can, at least.

Possibly. At the same time "mega families" have only gone out of sync in the last few decades. Prior to that it was considered the norm. Menial labor and all that. My grandfather was the second oldest of 17 kids, so I guess it's just never phased me as to the amount or it being creepy. It's only creepy IMHO when its a situation like octomom: continuing having babies to fill a hole without being able to financially support her kids. That's where I draw the line.

/nod

I come from a hugely extended family and when I first got married, I wanted to have at least 6 kids. We're at 3, and we've toyed with the idea of having another one when Charmaine got older, but we realized that financially, we could swing it, but we'd be sacrificing a lot of other things. So, Charmaine gets to remain as the baby and Ray will forever say "I wish we had another boy."

No. While I understand the OP factor is based mainly on a religious view, you stated which you may have intended solely towards the religious aspect, but did not clarify it as such. I just read it as a more generic statement as written, hence my stance.

Either way, be it religious or no, and regardless of why people wish to have a very large family, my stance still holds. Sorry if you feel I am adding more depth to the discussion. If you can only hold one train of thought though I'll understand and keep it based completely on wacky religious families following their ideals.

So to keep it one dimensional, yes the idea itself is a little odd. However, how is this different from other religious beliefs who follow the same ideals? It's most definitely not a new concept. And as the kids of these families grow up, I'd place some good cash on the idea that a lot will stray thus diminishing the ideals of their parents.