<p>I am actually very impressed that anyone would choose to spend years of their life being pregnant/nursing.
I didn’t so much like being pregnant- there were times when it was fascinating- but other times when it was frustrating and limiting.
Nursing was the same- wonderful connection- but why do they have to play with your other nipple like that? Augh!</p>
<p>Well I can’t imagine doing this myself, but hey, it seems as if they have it worked out.</p>
<p>I think we ought to remember that there is no such thing as a perfect number of children or a perfect family. There are great families who raise a single child to be not spoiled, and there are huge families that fail to raise any of their children responsibly.</p>
<p>H & I decided that after two, we were outnumbered. :D</p>
<p>OK, I am posting a link here with a warning. This is NOT nice. If you have posted a thoughtful or respectful comment about the family with the 16 kids, you will NOT like this link. This is insulting and disgraceful and rated R -</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you like South Park and Family Guy and do NOT get all gushy and sentimental while watching Hallmark commercials, and go around humming the “Every Sperm is Sacred” song from Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life”… you will be ROFL with this article:
<a href=“http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/[/url]”>http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/</a></p>
<p>Morford is my kinda columnist. I like 'em snarky.</p>
<p>That was great!</p>
<p>By the way: Morford’s online column changes a couple times a week. The link calmom posted points to his current column at any given time; this link will point to the actual snarky and disrespectful Morford column in perpetuity, once it falls off the main page.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link.</p>
<p>(PS Love Family Guy, and American Dad too)</p>
<p>He’s just jealous.</p>
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<p>Um… probably having abortions? </p>
<p>Why the assumption that people who live in rural areas are less intelligent? Or is it that religious people aren’t as bright? The kids aren’t criminals; they aren’t latch-key kids; they aren’t high school drop-outs (they are completing the requisite education)… but, oh no, Michelle and Jim must be doing a horrible job raising them… because they have religion! Oh, the horrors. </p>
<p>~the atheist, pro-choice Aries… who is just a little tired of conservative-bashing.</p>
<p>Honestly? A (small) part of the reason I had kids was that, after looking around at the gene pool sprouting around me, I figured it was almost criminal that people like my husband and me weren’t contributing some decent genes to future generations. I know that sounds awful, but there it is.</p>
<p>But my earth-aware self could not force herself to go past the 2-kid replacement value, so we just did not keep up with the Duggars. Not because of abortion, but because of environmental consciousness.</p>
<p>Are people who live in rural areas less “environmentally conscious,” than urbanites? Some environments are are overcrowded, and others are largely empty. My point is, everyone is conscious of his/her own environment, and some places need <em>more</em> people.</p>
<p>Morford is paid to entertain his kind of people. He shows his shallowness by dwelling on the Duggers’ offensively style-free haircuts/clothing. Is life without designer jeans not worth living? Should people in the Ozarks hide their faces in shame because (gasp!) we are (brace yourselves–) white and (this is really hard to take!) shop at WalMart? His insistence that children with many siblings are somehow less unique (faceless, cookie cutter copies. . .) than those from small families is just illogical. And his yucky consideration of the condition of Mrs. Dugger’s um, “privates” unfortunately brings to mind the other, uh, “private places” (and their natural products) that he and his friends enjoy. Where is the “flip side?” That’s easy to figure out–to use a rural metaphor: Those who plant their seed in infertile fields can expect no harvest. That’s just as well, because being “fashion-forward” doesn’t leave much money or time for raising kids.</p>