The Quiverful movement
I blogged a couple of months ago about Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, a married couple in Arkansas that were expecting their 18th child. They were getting their own reality show on the Discovery Channel, 17 Kids and Counting. At the time I thought they were just incredibly weird. As it turns out, there is an actual name for what they are doing.
It’s called the Quiverful movement.
A quiver is the thing an archer uses to hold all of his arrows. To someone who practices Quiverful, their home is the quiver and their children are the arrows. The idea is to stock their quiver with as many arrows as they can. It’s practiced primarily by conservative Christian evangelicals here in the United States. They almost never use any form of birth control or any other type of family planning.
The Duggars are people living the Quiverful or “QF” life.
I still think it’s pretty weird. They must think very highly of their genes to so heavily overstock the gene pool. Evidently the Duggars can afford the Quiverful lifestyle. I read on the Discovery Channel website that they own their own cellphone tower. I didn’t even know they had cellphones in Arkansas.
Woman pregnant with 18th child
This is a photo of Michelle Duggar and her family. She’s 41-year old and she is currently pregnant with her 18th child.
That’s right. She has given birth to 17 children and that is not enough. She must have at least one more. I read the whole article over on Yahoo, but I didn’t really need to. As soon as I heard there was a woman pregnant with her 18th child, I already assumed certain facts to be true. These facts include:
- She lives in Arkansas.
- She and her husband have named every child with a name starting with the letter “J”. To be honest, I wasn’t certain what the actual letter was, but I knew the names all started with the same letter.
- All of the children are home schooled.
- They are Republicans.
- They plan on continuing to have children as long as “God wills it”.
- They are supporters of former Republican Presidential nominee Mike Huckabee.
To put this into context, I know people who haven’t even had sex 18 times.
I can’t imagine the pain someone must feel that desperately wants to have a child, but for whatever reason, cannot become pregnant. It must be very similar to what someone who is starving to death feels when they have to watch someone at an all-you-can-eat Chinese food buffet go up and get 18 plates of snow crab legs.
And of course they have a reality TV show. I don’t watch reality TV shows that revolve around a single family unless that family includes midgets.
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