I seem to remember reading about the Duggar family from Arkansas a couple of years ago, about them expecting their child number-I-have-forgotten-what. Today, on Mothers Day, I read on MSNBC.com that they are expecting baby number 18! I was shocked to say the least. Boy, will they ever stop?

The Duggar Family
Photo: Discovery Health
I marvel at how they managed to raise the family financially and spiritually. They all seem like normal, healthy children who are home schooled, attend Bible and music classes.
While I am not a parent myself, I see how some of my friends struggle with pregnancy, with the responsibility of bringing up the children right, especially in the early years, struggle with putting them through school and tertiary education, worrying when the children fall ill, when they get into fights, when they have a brush with the law. Problems just seem endless.
And then here is the Duggar family, raising the children with joy. Of course, there may be problems that we, the public, are not privy to. Who knows, right? But they seem really happy! I really salute them.
Link:
The Duggar family official homepage
My sister asked me if I had read about the Austrian man who locked up his own daughter for 24 years in a basement and had seven children with her. I had not so I did a search on the internet and found stories of the house of horror in Austria.
And it is a seriously OH MY GOD piece of news. Nobody would ever understand how a man could lock his own daughter in the basement for 24 f@rking long years and nobody questioned it. Sure, it is soundproofed but then doesn’t the man act strangely upstairs?
The most amazing thing is that with seven children born in incest where one of the died as an infant, three children were allowed to live upstairs with the wife and how come this woman never suspected anything at all?
I tell you, some families are so f@rked up, they don’t deserve to live at all. But then there are people like Josef Fritzl’s who would be doing their best to help him escape the law. And in this case, Josef Fritzl will be pleading insanity. He is beyond insane!
Gosh, reading bout a case like this really makes me so angry. And the wife and siblings, can they ever live with themselves at all??