kyburg | (Reply)

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While I wouldn't make the choice she's made, the kids are here now. What would you like her to do about that, kill them to save taxpayer expense? There is no reason to split up this family -- honestly, there's more reason to split up the Duggars, so that they don't indoctrinate *all* their daughters with the "quiverfull" mindset.

She and the kids will get by just like the Duggars do, trading off the publicity and letting the older ones help with the younger. As an aside -- why is it perfectly okay when it's done in the name of religion and the goal is outbreeding the heathens, but not okay when she just wants the kids for themselves? I think if people really wanted to be helpful, they would put this woman through treatment so that whatever is at the bottom of this for her gets resolved, and then at the very least leave her and her children to live their lives. They'll do better together than apart; nobody has indicated in any way that she's an abusive or neglectful parent, and all the griping has been along the lines of "money out of our pockets" which says more about the people griping than it does about anything else. Like anything else involving any particular uterus, just because one wouldn't make the same choice doesn't give one the right to dictate what the uterus' owner can and can't do with it.