Duggar family

The Duggar family is an Arkansas family, headed by Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar (married July 21, 1984), who have been repeatedly featured in the news and entertainment media for having seventeen children. The family has been filmed for Discovery Health Channel and The Learning Channel television.cite web |url=http://www.advancedmedical.tv/shows/dug.htm |title=14 Children and Pregnant Again! |author=The Learning Channel |date=6 September 2004] ] cite web |url=http://www.prleap.com/pr/29152/ |title=Dream Home for Family of 18 on Learning Channel. |author="Home & Garden News" |date=12 March 2006] cite web |url=http://www.advancedmedical.tv/shows/r16.htm |title=Raising 16 Children |author=The Learning Channel |format=html |date=15 March 2006] cite web |url=http://www.advancedmedical.tv/shows/otr.htm |title=On the Road With 16 Children |author=The Learning Channel |date=11 June 2006] cite web |url=http://health.discovery.com/convergence/duggars/duggarfamily.html |title=The Duggars: Countdown to Baby 18 |work=Discovery Health Channel] cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20097968/ |title=Couple welcomes 17th child — and wants more |author=Associated Press |work=MSNBC |date=2 August 2007 |quote=The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable television's Discovery Health Network. The next special, the Duggar Family Album, is scheduled to air next month, Jim Bob Duggar said.] On May 9, Michelle Duggar announced on the Today Show that she is pregnant with their 18th child and is due on New Years Day 2009.

List of children

The Duggars' ten sons and seven daughters (including two sets of fraternal twins: one boy/girl set and one boy/boy set),cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9680098/ |title=And baby makes ... 18?|work=Associated Press |date=14 October 2005] [http://imdb.com/find?s=all&q=duggar Duggar Family] at the Internet Movie Database.] cite web |url=http://www.jimbob.info/Flash%20Files/portrait_gallery.swf |title=Duggar Family Portrait Gallery |author=Jim Bob Duggar |format=SWF file |work=JimBob.info website |date=October 2006] cite web |url=http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6877154 |title=Duggars welcome 17th child |author=Associated Press |work=WMC-TV |date=2 August 2007] all of whom have names which begin with the letter J, are as follows (the list does not include Michelle's miscarriage, which took place between the births of Joshua and Jana/John-David):

Family life

Jim Bob DuggarImdb name|id=2285649|name=Jim Bob Duggar.] and his wife Michelle,Imdb name|id=2285485|name=Michelle Duggar.] who was named Young Mother of the Year in Arkansas in 2004,cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/04/earlyshow/contributors/melindamurphy/main615586.shtml |title=What a Mother! |author=Melinda Murphy Interview with the Duggars |work=The Early Show |date=5 May 2004 |quote=Michelle Duggar just won the "Young Mother of the Year Award" in Arkansas, which is sponsored by American Mothers Incorporated.] cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5060048/ |title=(The Duggar family with Governor Huckabee) |author=Associated Press |work=MSNBC |date=25 May 2004 |quote=(Photo Caption) Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, far right, speaks with Michelle Duggar as the Duggar family poses for a photograph after Michelle was named Arkansas Young Mother of the Year on April 7 in Little Rock.] are conservative Baptists [Carrie Renegers. [http://www.quiverfull.com/articles.php/id20/ "13 Children Add Up to Asset for Challenger] . "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette" (September 9, 1999) reprinted in Quiverfull [http://www.quiverfull.com/index.php website] . Retrieved September 22, 2007.] who endorse the Quiverfull movement and the teachings of Bill Gothard. Mr. Duggar is a former state legislator who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. He is now a real estate agent. [cite web |url=http://www.quiverfull.com/articles.php/id20/ |title=13 Children Add Up To Asset For Challenger |author=Carrie Rengers |work=Arkansas Democrat-Gazette |date=9 September 2001] cite web |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/121805dntexbigfamily.2bb5559.html |title=For Arkansas family, 18's not a crowd |author=Arnold Hamilton |work=The Dallas Morning News |date=19 December 2005 |quote=The Duggars are an anomaly, attracting worldwide media attention.]

Jim Bob Duggar and his wife report that their children are blessings from God, since his wife miscarried while on birth control and was able to conceive many more times once she stopped taking birth control. [cite web |url=http://www.duggarfamily.com/aboutus.html |title= Dugger Family About Us Page]

The Duggars live debt-free, [cite web |url=http://www.nabbw.com/display_associate.php?associate_id=9&column_id=210&PHPSESSID=1eb81652699682 |title=Eating an Elephant |author=Prill Boyle |work=National Association of Baby Boomer Women] [cite web |url=http://www.parents.com/parents/printableStory.jsp?catref=prt40&storyid=/templatedata/parents/story/data/5432.xml |title=Raising 14 Kids |author=Michelle Duggar |work=Parents Magazine |date=September 2003] which Mr. Duggar has said is “the fruit of Jim Sammons' Financial Freedom Seminar” he attended years ago (Sammons is an associate and supporter of Gothard).

The Duggars raise their children using the buddy system, in which an older sibling raises a younger sibling, instead of the parents doing it themselves. The older buddy "will get the younger ones' meals." ["See Ref 9 above" http://www.quiverfull.com/articles.php/id20/] According to Mrs. Duggar, "They help them with their little phonics lessons and games during the day and help them practice their music lessons. They will play with them or help them pick out the color of their outfit that they want to wear that day, and just all of those types of things." ["American Morning"CNN October 15, 2005,http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/14/ltm.02.html ]

References

External links

* [http://www.duggarfamily.com/ Duggar family website]
* [http://duggar.forumotion.net// A Duggar Forum]