Quote Originally Posted by Twisterdog View Post
As long as the parents are supporting their family - not relying on the taxpayers to support them - then I guess it's their business. I personally would rather be dipped in honey and staked naked on a fire ant hill then even contemplate for one nanosecond having that many children. But maybe it's just me.
It's not just you, and I agree, it's their business....HOWEVER, when you put yourself in the public eye, as apparently they've done with a show I didn't know existed, you better have morals and values of steel in order to keep them intact under that kind of self imposed scrutiny.

I grew up in an area which was 85% Roman Catholic; big families were the norm. These people did not believe in birth control and there were LOTS of kids. There was one family with 22 (granted, the first 16 were one wife, and the other 6 were the second, but still!), and they actually lived in two houses. Of my friends, there were families with 8, 16, 17, 9...they wondered what was wrong with us because there were only 4! The difference is, they weren't on TV.

If they want to have all those kids, fine, but they're doing it on TV, so they'll get a lot of crticism.