File under the heading - Don't let this happen to you!

I was reading the local paper, specifically the the letters to the editor, when I ran across this! As the title is written, "Big Family Inspires on Many Levels," you can imagine the opinion is about. Here is the executive summary. Conservative right Arkansas family keeps having kids (18 at the latest count) and that's OK. Well, as you might imagine, the op ion raised a few hackles with me. As I was spinning myself up to write some thing criticizing any person who would "choose" to have 18 children, I came across this.

Thanks to Erica Barnett for so eloquently hitting all of the points I would have attempted myself. That being said, I have to respond to the idea of what thoughts, in fact, a family of 20 (18 kids 2 spawning machines) actually inspires.

Here is the top ten list:

10) It should inspire women to just say no... to sex, forced servitude, limited education...
9) Vasectomy
8) Is anybody really surprised that a dude with the name Jim Bob Duggar can't stop impregnating his wife?
7) Once again, the Republican Party, right wing, conservative family values triumph!
6) If you want to be treated like a baby making machine, start at age 17 and don't stop until the eggs dry up or god comes in to your bedroom and says stop.
5) Whatever happened to replacement value?
4) Hey Duggar, why don't you adopt one or more of those hard luck, poor kids who come from broken, fatherless, abusive homes?
3) Polygamy is illegal but siring 18 children with one woman on one income is lauded as the work of god?
2) Hey, Duggars, thanks for attempting to keep the human race populated by yourselves.
1) I'm sure those 18 kids really appreciate all the time the parents can spend with them. Of course dad is working most of the time to bring in enough cash to feed the lot. Then there is that pesky 24 hour day, 8 of which is spent sleeping. Lets just say that there 3 hours of work per day. That leaves 13 hours of kid time. But wait, some of that time has gotta be saved for more baby making. There is some home schooling there. What about post postpartum depression. I guess after 18 some odd pregnancies you either learn how to deal with it or you've just resolved to not be postpartum for very long.

Oh well. This is the holiday season. So, I should wish the Duggars a merry Christmas. Yes! The birth of Christ, and point out that god had the good sense to stop after one.