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More isn’t always Merrier
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Written by Leak Berkowitz, Op-Ed Editor
Their reality show on TLC, 19 Kids and Counting, is becoming more and more popular as time goes on. Just from the title you know that they don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, “At age 40, a woman has 1 in 100 chance of having a baby with Down Syndrome; and at 45, a 1 in 30 chance,” according to American Academy of Family Physicians. Michelle Duggar is 43 years old, and by continuing to have more children, she is risking not only her future baby’s heath, but also her own. Other health risks arise with having such a large number of children at such an old age; risks such as diabetes and high blood pressure are very common. Can’t Michelle be happy with the wonderful children she has waiting for her at home? It’s evident that her age is becoming a medical hazard, her new born baby, Josie Brooklyn, was born three months earlier than her predicted due date after Michelle developed preeclampsia (high blood pressure condition that affects both the mother and the unborn child). She might not be as lucky the next time she decides to have a baby. The Duggar family can survive with one less child, if it means that Michelle remains in good health. The Duggars are a great family, and they support each other through everything, however, Michelle and Jim Bob need to realize that they aren’t as young, and their bodies can’t handle as much strain as they used to.
The Duggar children are really excited to have a new addition in the family, but do they ever feel neglected? Their parents don’t have time to take care of all of them and give them the attention that they need, so there has to be at least one case of Middle Child Syndrome in that family. If Jim Bob is working, and Michelle is watching the baby, whichever one that may be, then who is taking care of their other kids? The older siblings, of course. They were not brought to this world to have a normal, social life, but rather to help out their parents with their younger siblings. They were raised to care for others and to be a strong, supportive family, which is great, but when do they have time to be the children that they really are? They’re kids too, so where’s there love?
Jim Bob and Michelle have their first grandchild on the way, so when your “baby” starts having babies, then that’s a sign that you shouldn’t be. They may decide to stop having children, but they are always going to be called “mom” and “dad.”
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February 8th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Daaaaaang. I’m so sick of these shows. Like we need to promote overpopulation. What’s wrong with people these days? We’ve had three “octomoms” this past year.
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