Tuesday, April 14, 2009

18 Kids and Counting - EXTRA CREDIT


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.

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