oh my... they're at it again. now i believe that as long as they can provide for all of these children, it's their prerogative, but it's not like they are adopting needy children-- doesn't 17 BIOLOGICAL children border on selfish???

or crazy

wow... jim duggar (known as jim bob) was in the arkansas house of representatives, though lost his subsequent bid for the senate.
i remember reading about their 16th pregnancy and thinking they were a little off...
(as an aside, i just found an article about it that i hadn't seen, though, for the skeptics to enjoy:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/10/19/notes101905.DTL)

Older but not necessarily wiser

Indeed Skwirl. (Just as an aside, my Afrikaans grandmother was one of 22 children but it was through one father and two wives (not polygamous). Afrikaaners were encourage to have large families in order to boost the white population of South Africa). I think it's thoughtless and selfish in this day and age when earth's resources are drying up.