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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 12:26 pm
I don't normally watch this show because I just can't get why they need so many children. But I did see parts of the ceremony and show. Felt the same way you did Sugar about that being in charge thing and I was amazed about letting God decide how many children they will have. Just hope they can support them.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:53 pm
If you don't watch the show, they have zero credit card debt and pay for everything with cash.
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 6:30 pm
to each, their own - just not my style. Josh & Anna really look like they are consumed with love for each other. But, I just can't help feeling like this seems like an arranged union.
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Pamplemousse
Member
09-28-2003
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 7:23 pm
The in charge bit set my teeth on edge too. I thought it amusing/interesting to see the parents stressed out having to keep up with and caring for the younger kids while the older girls were off with Josh at Anna's folks house doing the wedding prep. Sure hope the parents appreciate those girls more now. certainly was a "telling" moment.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 9:31 pm
Did you see how much hairspray Daddy Duggar was using? Wasteful wasteful, shameful, shameful.
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:20 pm
I have the same problem when I am photographing a wedding and some of the stuff in the vows is so sexist! It is hard to keep my thoughts to myself sometimes.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:51 pm
You know I had a friend who confused her valium with her birth control pills. She had 14 kids, but she doesn't really care.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 11:45 pm
ROFL Sgranny!! I know I've heard that before, but it's still just as funny! 
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 7:50 am
I sure noticed that Pamplemousse! I was glad the girls got to go to FL! I also think they are waaay conservative but I am still fascinated. I still can't tell the kids apart except from Josh now...lol I like to see which kid is featured.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 10:51 am
Were any of Michelle's family at the wedding? Or any of Jim BOb's except cousing Amy? The trip to San Fransisco was interesting. I am astounded at the belief that because they used birth control thus angering God they had a miscarriage.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 7:11 pm
I'm enjoying the Christmas parade. The little donkey and monkey are so cute.
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Jennywa
Member
07-17-2003
| Saturday, February 07, 2009 - 6:03 pm
I caught 10 minutes of this show for the first time-the Christmas Parade- and maybe I am jumping to conclusions, but I found it very annoying. This family didn't seem that interesting-their comments were very mundane, and even though the situation should have been at least exciting, it was boring to me. Five minutes of taking off a rusted hitch? Mom watching from the bus? Dad nervous about riding a camel? Nondescript kids commenting about how cold they are? Not for me. Ten minutes was enough of my time to devote to this show.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, February 07, 2009 - 6:48 pm
Jenny, I can see where one if unfamilure with the family it could be boring. But I've been watching them for a long time and it's almost like I'm watching the Arkansas branch of my family.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 9:39 am
I think it was interesting to see the Duggars in El Salvador. I wonder what they think of the "let God decide" philosophy when they see people living in abject poverty and having 14 children, several of which died of malnutrition.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 9:55 am
I've been in several Central American countries and the poverty there will break your heart.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 12:02 pm
Wow, on last night's show. I am so impressed they have taken Michelle's parents in to live with them. Her father has Alzheimers and needs a lot of care, but her mom looks able to handle it pretty well with the help of the family.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 2:43 pm
Actually it's Grandpa and Grandma Duggar, Jim Bob's parents. I know alot of people think wow too many kids, but they are self sufficient, are not on government assistance, and the love is there. Not many would take on elderly parents, with or without that many kids. I love this show. I love that they are finally letting the orneriness of some of the kids show through too, and the whining and tantrums. They aren't "perfect", they are real.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 2:57 pm
Serate, I don't doubt what you are saying about which parents they are, but what am I remembering. I thought when she went to her family's reunion that was her dad sitting in the chair who was lost in his mind. Does her father have a brain disorder also?
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 3:48 pm
Not sure about her dad OG but before I posted the above I did restore last night's episode and FF to that part, and she called them Grandpa and Grandma Duggar, and the subtitles said Duggar.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 3:58 pm
How sad, I just came across this trying to find information about Michelle's family. Grandpa (Jim "J.L.") Duggar (February 3, 1936 – February 9, 2009) - Jim Bob's father. RIP Grandpa Duggar.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 4:08 pm
Alzheimers is such a robbing disease. It's almost as though once the person has it, they are already gone. The person that they were is gone and the person that they are is just waiting to be gone.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 9:00 pm
It's even worse than that Escapee. In the beg. and sometimes middle stages of alzheimers, people have plenty of moments of clarity followed by moments of confusion and then clarity. It's heartbreaking, they know, they see what's happening to them. At the retirement home, we could have residents with beg. stages, but once they got to a certain point they had to be moved to a different facility because we weren't equipped to work with them (no nurses/doctors/lockdown.) I'll never forget one elderly man sobbing (whole body shaking, tears, sobbing) when he realized he hadn't known his children when they'd visited him earlier that day. It's a horrible, horrible disease.
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Erniesgirl
Member
06-26-2006
| Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 5:57 pm
can't wait for tonight's episode. It's great seeing the previews with them meeting Kirk Cameron. Lights, Camera, Duggars 6 and 9pm pacific half hour episode The Duggars travel to the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival to watch movies and meet their favorite star, Kirk Cameron.
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Sassynegal
Member
01-21-2005
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 9:42 am
It's great that they are able to support all of their kids and they seem like a great family, but what I have trouble with is that if you are so conservative, why would you exploit your family on National TV - for $? I'd never put my family on air - they can't watch tv but they can be a reality show. It just seems contradictory to me.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 10:19 am
I'd never put my family on air - they can't watch tv but they can be a reality show. It just seems contradictory to me. They can watch TV, it's just limited and monitored. They can't just turn on the TV anytime they want and/or watch anything they want. NOTHING wrong with that IMO. My 5 year old great nephew has wicked nightmares, and my niece won't admit that just possibly allowing him to be in the room when she's watching horror movies - since the day he was born - might have a bit to do with the nightmares.
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