THe Duggars add a 19th seat to their Clown Car.

[Medusa]

I've never watched the show so I'm asking in complete innocence: how do they support this family, in these hard financial times especially, but at any time? Why are they not criticized, as Jon and Kate have been, for exposing their kids to the media? Or have they been and I just am unaware of it? And most important of all, how do they manage to give each child individual attention? Again, I am not criticizing them, just asking serious questions.

[Twisterdog]

I've never watched the show so I'm asking in complete innocence: how do they support this family, in these hard financial times especially, but at any time? Why are they not criticized, as Jon and Kate have been, for exposing their kids to the media? Or have they been and I just am unaware of it? And most important of all, how do they manage to give each child individual attention? Again, I am not criticizing them, just asking serious questions.

I've never watched the show, either. In fact, I didn't even know they had a show. I think those are very valid questions indeed!

I saw part of an interview with them on some talk show once. By what I gathered, an older child is assigned to a younger child. I got the impression that the older one pretty much raises the younger one for eighteen years. Not exactly fair, IMO, to make little parents out of children.