They Haven't Listened Bob...

i've been struggling all day about how i was going to go about writing about this. this family's behavior has irked me for years, in duggar-time, since baby #14. i've seen the 'specials' on the discovery channel, i've read the articles in people magazine and i've watched them unknowingly make complete a**holes out of themselves on national television.

the latter, i witnessed again this morning on the today show. they were on for a follow-up segment about ludicrous baby #17, and to celebrate mama duggar for being an excellent mother; to which she responded with the surprise announcement that she was f*cking knocked up again. i use the term 'mother' here loosely. i know parents who struggle with the too few hours in day raising one or two children; the juggling of a career, cooking, cleaning, etc... yet the people i know, the real mothers, will deprive themselves the extra hour of sleep to be sure they have quality time to spend with their child or children. how is it humanly possible for two parents to 'mother' 17, soon to be 18, children?

brainwashing. mommy and daddy are merely the factory. the older kids raise the younger ones. none of the children leave the house. like most families of the quiverfull faith, they are all home schooled and un-socialized. they have no idea what the real world is like, because they are sheltered from it. the producers of the today show whisked several of the older children away to buy mom mother's day gifts, and upon learning of this on live tv, mama duggar gasped. what, in of all places, new york city, were her poor sheltered children exposed to? a homeless man sleeping on the street? an asian artist sketching faces? a hodgepodge band of bucket drummers? or maybe even the naked cowboy? oh no!

i don't pray much, but like the jessop's that escaped the polygamist cult in texas, i pray that someday some of these kids have a chance. i hope that the god that they believe in so strongly gives them the will to run away, change their name and live the american dream with a significant other and a child or two. i hope that the cruel and unusual way of life that they are trapped in right now doesn't scar them for life, and i sincerely hope that none of them take out their anti-social anxiety on a public place, from the top of a bell tower one day...