TLC apparently feels the need to pay people lots of money simply because they have a lot of children. This is an odd phenomena, but I seem to be stuck on the reproductive bandwagon also. The family with the most kids, the Duggars, are now expecting a grandchild... wait, didn't Mrs. Duggar just have a child a few months ago... yes. This show has a lot of masculinity present because the husband is entirely in charge in these families. Josh (the oldest Duggar child) and Anna got married a few months ago and have been trying to have a child since their wedding day. Now four months later, they are expecting. This is a very masculine thing because they refuse to use birth control, ever. The woman doesn't have a right to use birth control. This was even in their wedding vows (worded a bit differently, simply that they would not try to prevent pregnancy). I think that our culture has moved to a place where it is unfair to tell a woman what they can and cannot do with their own body. But then again, maybe Anna wants to have eighteen children like her mother-in-law.
