Duggar Family Show Put On Hold
January 21st, 2010 - 8:57 pm ICT by GD ( 45 comments )By Gina Gomez
Jan 21, (THAINDIAN NEWS) For most of the parents, one child is perfect. However, for the couple Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, 19 children are not enough. They want to have more. This famous Duggar family comprising of 19 children whose name starts with the letter ‘J’ has grasped a lot of attention. This popular Duggar family gave rise to television reality shows like “17 kids and counting”" and now “18 kids and counting”. After the first child of the couple was born, they used birth control followed by a miscarriage. The couple thought birth control to be the cause of the miscarriage and decided not to use it ever again.
It is going to be disappointing for the fans of the Duggar family as the TLC’s show “18 and Counting” has stopped taping. According to TLC, there would be no new episodes of “18 Kids and Counting” for the next two weeks as Josie Brooklyn is in the NICU at the University of Arkansas for checkup. Unless the baby gets strong enough it is a little difficult for the show to go on. The Duggar family fans will surely understand this.
In the next two weeks, recap of the past episodes will be played. In case you missed it before make sure you watch it now. The Duggars said it will only take a few weeks. The fans are ready to wait for a longer period of time as babies should be first priorities. The viewers are eagerly waiting for the new member Josie Brooklyn to get stronger as they wait for a new episode of “18 kids and counting.”
- 12 Duggar Kids Infected With Chicken Pox In "19 Kids And Counting" - Aug 22, 2010
- Duggar Family Welcomes Child No.19 - Jun 30, 2010
- Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar: '19th Duggar baby doing well' - Jan 29, 2010
- Duggar Baby 19 Will Be Introduced In A Special Episode On Sunday - Jan 29, 2010
- US 'supermom' gives birth to 19th child - Dec 12, 2009
- 19th Baby Of Duggar Family Completes Twenty Days Today - Dec 30, 2009
- Michelle Duggar is pregnant with her 20th child - Nov 08, 2011
- Baby Josie Duggar From '19 Kids & Counting' Finally Goes Home! - Jun 30, 2010
- Duggar Family all set to welcome another baby in 2011 - Nov 11, 2010
- Baby Number 19, Josie Duggar Comes Home! - Apr 07, 2010
- Josie Duggar Joining The Cast Of "19 And Counting" - Apr 07, 2010
- Duggar baby no. 19 Josie Brooklyn is under constant surveillance - Dec 22, 2009
- Duggar Baby No. 19 Josie Brooklyn is a Christmas miracle - Dec 22, 2009
- Duggar Baby Rushed To Hospital After Vital Signs Fluctuates - Apr 13, 2010
- Duggar Baby No.19 Spends Christmas With Her Family - Dec 27, 2009
Tags: babies, birth control, brooklyn, duggar family, duggars, family fans, gina gomez, jan 21, jim bob, josie, new member, nicu, parents, period of time, priorities, television reality, tlc, university of arkansas
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:31 am
I would not have been disappointed if the Duggar continued to tape during this critical time in their lives. It just affirms the morals and values that they stand by in each and every episode. God first! I think that God is teaching the viewer something as we all pray for Jose and the Duggar family.
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:32 am
I would not have been disappointed if the Duggar continued to tape during this critical time in their lives. It just affirms the morals and values that they stand by in each and every episode. God first! I think that God is teaching the viewer something as we all pray for Jose and the Duggar family.
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January 22nd, 2010 at 11:35 am
This is really sick. Twenty kids? And they really believe that men and dinosaurs lived at the same time.
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:11 pm
I really think after this that they need 2 stop having kids. I think it is time 4 them 2 stop and think about her health what happens if something happens 2 her during child birth or something then all those kids wouldn’t have their mother anymore. I think they are risky her health by having so many kids.
January 23rd, 2010 at 3:28 am
I think this family is an inspiration to all of us. God is definately in their lives and in the lives of their children. They have made a true comittment to the Lord God above and have been very blessed. No one ever said that Life would be easy. There is always hardship and hurt in life no matter how much you love or serve the Lord. It is part of this life on earth. People need to understand and appreciate what the Dugger family believes in and lives for. People do not need to judge another families plans to have children or how many they choose to have. It is GOD who chooses our destiny. NOT PEOPLE. Please give this family the love, respect and admiration that they deserve. There are so many people out there that have maybe one or two children with less discipline, control or the love of God than this family has given to all of their children. If I didn’t have my own mom, I would want her to be mine. Let us all pray for the4 newest Dugger.
Love, Ginger
January 23rd, 2010 at 6:09 am
I hope that Michelle heeds the doctors warning not to have more children, the doctor told her it was getting dangerous for her to continue to become pregnant. Hopefully she will consider the children that she already has, they need her to raise them. I think these kids are great, but I wonder how they ever get individual attention that they deserve from their parents.
January 25th, 2010 at 4:49 am
I think Billy Bob is in it for the money. How many of you women out there would have liked to have been pregnant for 19 years straight? This doofus needs to get a vasectomy, 15 children ago. All the girls wear their hair the way Billy Bob likes it? How weird is that? Hope Michelle can still service Billy Bob. There’s something very strange about the “Duggers”. You know what I mean Koresh?
January 26th, 2010 at 7:07 am
Although I admit to a certain fascination with this family, I believe this last pregnancy to be plain ignorant and selfish….in fact not so sure the last 5 or 6 haven’t been. Who is raising who in this house? They aren’t parents, they are rabbits in heat. Enough already. I had a 7 week preemie who at 27 years of age is blind and in a wheelchair. It has been real work and I was only 24 when I had her. Again, who will bear the burden of little Josie?
January 26th, 2010 at 7:13 am
Oh yeah, and God is a real convenient excuse. Get real. God is not involved in this mess. Why would God want a baby to have a preemie birth? BS.
I am so sick or the evangelical right wing fundamentalists involving their God in every bit of minutiae in life. If God could help, why did he allow it in the first place? You pray for help and wonder, hmmm, why didn’t help Josie before she was born so early. It is all crap.
January 26th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
God does not give us more than we can handle. I believe personally that the Duggars are refreshing family with high moral standards for their family. When my husband and I first got married we wanted a dozen children, but God had other plans, he knew I could only handle four. I love each one of my children very much and so do the Duggars. Even though this is a public forum there is no need for public bashing of a family that has taught many people morals, about family time, togetherness as a couple, love, caring, life and even death when grandpa Duggar died. If for some reason you feel uncomfortable with them by all means don’t watch them then complain about them. There is so much other stuff on television you could watch or better yet TURN IT OFF and read a book. Play golf, go for a walk, play a game with with your child, clean out your closet, BUT, STOP YOUR COMPLAINING. and Tamara The Duggars would never think for one minute if little Josie had a disability that she would ever be a burden. She has and will always be their gift from God!
January 26th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
To those of you who think the Duggars should stop having children: it isn’t your life to live, is it? To those who condemn their belief in God and His will for their lives: we must all be true to what we believe in. They are raising their family with values and morals that make the world a better place, and they aren’t relying on the government to help them do it. Those of you who have no faith in a God who loves us infinitely will never understand, because your minds are closed to anything spiritual.
January 26th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
It appears that I am not the only one who believes something is wrong here. Please, you are destroying these children not enriching them as you claim. They are all being forced to raise these children, as there is no way two parents can. What type of life are your really providing all 19 of them? This is just plain crazy and god and birth control are being used are the reason. Please wake up. enough is enough. How are you supporting all these lives? Im guessing the show makes you money because people are interested in your crazy life.
January 26th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Children should not have to be resposible for raising 19 children. Selfish is the word that comes to mind. Also control. He has control of everyone and everything. Remind you of anyone? It appears they won’t get it until they are faced with health problem or worse a loss. It’s to bad that enough will never be enough for that man. He can used what ever reason he wants but we don’t believe any of them.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:46 am
These people are disgusting, and people should not be videotaping them and showing them on TV! Seriously, 19 kids, and their older kids are raising the younger ones? It’s no wonder the girls all want to be mom’s, it’s all they know! Somebody needs to go in and tie that woman’s tubes, or remove her whole uterus! The only reason they can afford all these kids is because of all these people who have no lives watch them on TV. Why would you want to see more of that disgusting family? Enough is enough!
January 27th, 2010 at 4:22 am
These people are idiots! Should have stopped 17 children ago…as if the planet isn’t already OVERPOPULATED! Their children should not be raising their siblings. Billy Bob should get himself FIXED, Michelle too for that matter before her uterus falls out.
January 27th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Wow. Judgmental. But I am surprised its not the “right wing fundamentalists” who are being judgmental here. Isn’t that what everybody likes to accuse them of?
Bob & Michelle are responsible enough to teach their children about family AND work - and their kids are NOT being raised on my tax dollars. Or yours
Because they share their religious beliefs they are criticized. If they were Hindu - nobody would give a flip. If they were living in a 3rd world country - would you bother to sponsor them? Or any of their children?
But because their children are responsibly contributing to their family - and we only see 30 edited minutes of their lives at a time - THEY are the bad guys here?
January 27th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Tamara, I am really sorry to hear about your daughter. Medical care has come a long way in the 27 years since your daughter was born, so there are 25- and 26-week-old babies who not only survive nowadays, but thrive. Who’s to tell if Josie will have health problems down the road but it sounds like she’s hanging on.
I consider myself to be a very spiritual person, not so religious. I believe that God allows good and bad to happen. Of course He wouldn’t have brought this baby into the world to punish her or her family, but to strengthen all of them and the people who watch them to show them that in the face of the ultimate obstacle, He can turn everything around and make it good. A lot of it depends on one’s outlook on a situation. You can take a bad situation and think the worst or you could see a potential blessing in it.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:14 am
“Billy Bob”…Hahaha!!!
January 27th, 2010 at 11:38 am
If you don’t want to see it, don’t watch it. If you don’t like it, don’t read about it. If you don’t agree with it, don’t degrade it. It seems to me that there are far too many under educated, self-righteous blabber mouths in our society than there are precious Duggar children! Shame on you. Is it that you are jealous of the wonderful job they do raising their 19 caring, selfless children; or is it that you are ashamed of the mirror-image multitude of flippant, thankless creatures you have produced? Hmmmmm…..
January 28th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Do they have a television?
January 29th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
JUST A SHORT COMMENT. I AGREE WITH MAMA BEAR. LOVE THAT PRECIOUS FAMILY AND LOVE THE SHOW.
January 30th, 2010 at 12:10 am
While I’m not comfortable with many of their views, the Duggars are doing an outstanding job raising productive, intelligent children. This is their choice to have so many children and as long as they can handle it, they should not be judged. For those who are critical of the older children helping out, there are millions of children helping their younger siblings while mom or dad have to work. There are millions of single parents needing their older children to help. In the end, I find that these children are more responsible, caring, nurturing than those teens whose world evolves around them.
January 30th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
I am praying for all of you & know how difficult it is to have a preemie in the hospital. I have a HUGE box of girl preemie clothes to send Josie when you are ready for me to put them in the mail. Please contact me.
February 1st, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Kim, i have an immense faith in God and His will for my, So don’t say we are all close minded!! I am sure there are several Christians out there that also agree this is foolish for many reasons (health, the other kids, etc.).
Karis there is a VAST difference with older siblings helping out so that mom and dad can put a roof over your head and food on the table and mating like rabbits and expecting that your older children ‘raise’ your youngest so you can romp and have more!! It is NOT responsible behaviour. if I had more chidren, of course I would hope my kids helped out with their younger siblings, but it wouldn’t be their responsibility to buddy up with them and ‘raise’ them.
Kids need to be kids, no amtter how many kids in your family.
I think that is what people who are so for this show are not getting, no one is disagreeing that these kids are responsible, well behaved, and not self-centered… you can teach your kids to be like that without shoving 1000 siblings on them!
February 1st, 2010 at 9:26 pm
If the miscarriage was a sign that they were wrong using the birthcontrol pill, I wonder what the premature birth of Josie is a sign for…?
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:04 am
These parents are nothing but a couple of deranged cult leaders. Those older girls are raising the kids and they have to dress and wear their hair the same way. Billy Bob is one sick prick and he and his wife are the most selfish beings on the planet. They know the risks of continuing to have kids at their age yet they just continue. DYFS should remove these kids and give them a chance at a normal life.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:04 am
lovemykids, As I stated, I do not agree with many of their beliefs, they do seem to do a great job in parenting. Also agreed, is that kids do need a childhood. My husband and I have worked hard to protect our children knowing that soon enough, they would see and experience the realities of life. However, one does have to live by their conscience and since the kids seem to turn out so well, I can’t judge them for their decisions. My biggest concern is that there are millions of children in this world who are orphaned and whose futures are bleak (at best!) with no chance at being adopted. There needs to be more awareness and care for the children already here.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:39 am
Your whole family is refreshing & I was surprised you agreed to doing a TLC show. People need to get past the number of children you have & see how your family functions. As a couple you spend more quality time with your children than the average parents. They hsve a genuine feeling of knowledge of family. Your sons are learning how to grow up to be real men & your daughters are learning so many basics schools long ago cut out as unnecessary. None of your children have a weight problem so that say a huge comment in this day & age that when our youth fight obesity in record amounts. ALL the places you have taken your children in the USA, how many that say negitive remarks have made time to even take their children out of the state they live? Over & over again it has been proven home schooled kids excel in testing.
Michele’s age has possibly little to do with why Josie had to be taken so early. Any pregnancy can have issues that cause emergency for the baby and or the mother. My own mother had the same issues with her first pregnancy at age 25.
Now Michele & Josie needs everyone’s prayers for complete healing & Josie especially has no side effects of her early arrival. We KNOW the Lord is in control!!!
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:58 am
Wow, some people are so against them and obviously know nothing of them. Oh, and the Earth is not overpopulated. Certain areas may be, but this country is not. We need more people to help support the older generations.
Michelle had pre-eclampsia. That is the only reason Josie was born so early. I had it with my first. It’s pretty random, some people never have it. Michelle had it once something like 18 years ago. It is very dangerous and really makes you feel terrible. I cannot describe how bad it feels, but I would take c-section recovery over the feeling I had with a bp of around 200/180.
Besides, they don’t plan these kids. This last one caught them by total surprise as Michelle thought she was too old and her body was done.
I have a friend who has 5. 4 of them were c-sections. She left it up to God to decide if she’d have more (we are Catechism Catholics). She told him what her desire was, but left it up to him. That 5th baby was her last. Nothing wrong with letting your faith guide your family size. We use no birth control, and I have 2 kids. It’s just how it is for us.
I sincerely hope Josie comes through this, and that she can go home in a couple months and be with her family.
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:20 pm
really i mean im glad for them but they need to stop having kids because thats bad for the earth and wtf 19 children we already need 180% of our earths resources so please stop im glad tho
February 5th, 2010 at 8:37 am
Enough already. This is the type of thing that happened before birth control. Women would have kids until their bodies gave out and they died. The kids have to take care of each other. Enjoy the kids you already have. This is not fair to the kids. They are not kids but parents to their siblings.
February 6th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
This is not a family. They run their house like an institution. What does Jim Bob do for a living? They mentioned politics at one time. You never see him working or at work, not even at home. The older children do all the work. They are like a cult. They wear the same kind of clothes and the same hair-dos. The boys can’t wear shorts. The girls all wear long skirts, no pants. It’s a good thing they are home schooled because they would get picked on in school.
February 9th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Duggar for blessing this world with so many good people. I appreciate you both as a loving couple and loving parents to your children.
My own family enjoys watching yours very much and we thank you for allowing the cameras in to show a healthy family dynamic.
As a parent, I appreciate how hard it is to raise just one good child in this world.
May the Lord continue to bless you for accepting his gifts.
February 13th, 2010 at 12:22 am
It’s a blessing to see a family trusting God! If you read the Bible it says that He is the One that opens the womb or closes it. He gives life! When people complain about 19 children being too many i feel sad because they are looking in the wrong direction they should look at their own children and think about the life they live in that day care center they drop them off at every day. Do you think they are getting individual attention there?
February 16th, 2010 at 7:23 am
Who is paying for all these children is it you or I no it is there parents it’s nobody’s business how many kids they have! They are being looked after and loved by there parents nobody else!not like another person with a huge family that lived on benefits.I hope things go great for Josie and is soon home with her wonderful family!
February 16th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Karis, I am not saying that they can’t do what they choose to do…. fill your boots, far be it from me to stop them. I am also not saying they are not growing up to be ‘good kids’ but are they growing up to good kids by being controlled? what happens when one of these kids gets let loose to the secular world and lets loose… drinking, partying, drugs, turns gay? omg, there will go their perfect image. Don’t think it can happen? trust me it can, my husband and his siblings were ’secluded’ from the real world and my husband went the opposite drection from what he was taught because as he puts it “it was shoved down his throat” that is exactly what these people are doing to these kids…. I personally know ex-hutterites who were raised under a similar dictatorship and after leaving the colony got involved in things that would makeyou gasp.
So yes, it not only becomes a question of how many children this family has it is how they are raising them. My grandmother had 10 children, raised them all single handedly aftermy grandfather died, but each of these children had individual room to grow make mistakes and had lives outside of home and church. Grandma didn’t have the luxury of staying home to raise 10 kids.
It really ticks me off the people who say that this family has such perfect kids because that is what they see on the television screen week after week, give your heads a shake! even reality tv can be editied and scripted…. if you honestly think 19 children don’t EVER have melt downs, test the parents patience and boundaries…. you are highly naiive.
Do I think my parenting and my kids are perfect? NO do I thik theirs is or their kids! absolutely not… I would rather have kids that learn from taking some healthy risks and learning then them learning because of a set of controlling parents. Yes, as a mother I work full time, but I can tell yu with all sincerity that I know more about my children then most stay at home moms! Why? because I don’t sheild them from ‘taboo’ conversations (sex, drinking, drugs), my kids don’t need to go behind my back to do things, and I certainly don’t freak out by the things my kids say and do… why because had my parents been more open about things like drinking, sex, etc… I would have talked more openly about it and not felt like I needed to hide things from them.
My kids are well behaved, grounded, well rounded, well travelled, helpful, and importantly they are themselves, unique and special in ther own ways.
As for the moron who said the world is over populated! what a truly selfish remark! i don’t think that is for you to decide… sheesh… go hug a tree!
To the rest of you who have jumped down the throats of those who had an opinion against your own, since when did the world have to have the same opinion?
March 23rd, 2010 at 10:50 pm
i love this family n the way the kids r being raise,some people critized for the girls wearing skirt,so what ,some of u ladies walk out there almost naked n get rape n kill,,,,so leave this family alone,,,hey live the way GOD WANTS THEM TO LIVE,,,,,SO DONT JUDGE,,,
March 25th, 2010 at 11:24 am
I just keep praying for Josie & all of you as you go through this time! I hope those that have watched the show SEE the Lord in their Spirits & how blessed the whole nation really is to witness this unusual family living their lives.
May 30th, 2010 at 12:04 am
I’m an elderly woman who can still remember when and why families were so large in the 30’s, 40’s, etc. That’s when the USA produced its own food, raised on big farms, (therefore the need for lots of “hands”). Nobody found it strange then. We took care of each other, without judgment, with open hearts — then came the electronic age. God help us all.
June 23rd, 2010 at 3:26 am
Wow - it is amazing at the negativity out there. I could not possibly have that many children and I would think most people should not. However, it is obvious they are raising and supporting their family on their own and I certainly do no think one can fake the obvious love and commitment they have to their children. I do not agree with everything they do, but they are certainly not harming their children in any way. Good grief - if you look really hard, you can find something wrong with anyone.
July 13th, 2010 at 8:00 am
God can only speak in so many ways, so the Duggars’ need to heed what he is saying. I like the show but it is hypocritical for them to be on television but not allow their children to watch television. This is why christian’s get a bad rap, because a large percentage of them interpret things to their own advantage. Also, to the person’s who say they don’t get government help, they should ask themselves who is paying the bill at The Children’s Hospital. Has Jim Bob figured out a way not to pay taxes? Do they have church in one of their many rental properties so they can get a huge tax break?
August 31st, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Amy Duggar is the biggest hypocrite on the show. She is not a Christian and it makes me sick when people make money off of a reality show that isn’t true. She’s not married, but is having regular sex with a man who has a show in Branson in hopes of getting a start in her music career. She’s not talented enough to do it without fu_____ someone in the music business. CHRISTIAN? What a hypocrite.
January 10th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Is this what we all are paying tax for? If Duggar Family were poor I would really helped them, but to gain popularity it is just not the way.
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February 8th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
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September 4th, 2011 at 2:26 am
I rarely follow this show. It is at odds ends to much of what I believe. I feel sorry for the older Duggar children, particularly the girs…as I fear they have been raised to be nannies, mother’s helpers, etc. Heaven forbid they want to go to college or leave home and get a job elsewhere to fulfill their own individual desires and aspirations. They all seem robotic to me, from their clothing to hair styles to lack of or interest in dating. Big brother and his wife appear to be following in the parents footstehps…one child after another. Why can’t these folks haave a child to enjoy before putting it on the back burner to focus on another baby. If the Duggars didn’t have this show, they would be on welfare with all of us supporting them from our taxes. For Heaven’s sake, stop procreating, take care of the bab ies yourself and let the older kids get a life and find out who they are.