C4K said:
Did you read the articlem, or just decide to be critical? They homeschool their children.
Praise God for a wonderful family like this! What does it bother you if they want to have 20 kids? They take care of them, they feed them, they educate them, and it appears like they are raising their kids to glorify God!
Amen and amen!
With my eyes closed, I pointed to my computer screen and yelled "whalla". That was the thread I chose to be critical of
I think you mean to praise god for all christian families. :godisgood:
Yes, I read the article. My sentence was "If" they home schooled. I couldn't recall off hand
Magnetic Poles stated it best, it is simple math. 24 hours in a day, with 17 children. 9 hours of it is sleeping so you have 11 hours left. If you gave each child 1/2 hour of pure intimate time to just talk, it would take up almost 9 hours per day. That leaves only two hours left to home school your kids, clean your house (or instruct the housekeeper or who ever) make dinner, clean etc.. you must sign kids school papers sent them back, and there is a good chance as a parent, you already had to be somewhere that day anyways so you never started out with 24 hours in the first place.
Maybe a child was sick and you needed to go shopping, run some errands, take the child to the dentist, participate in parental conferences with teachers (even in this situation) need I go on??? And when exactly do these people find time to be intimate together? To be intimate with other couples so the kids can see that adults need that type of companionship?
Children can perform some parental duties which keep the other children alive, but that's about it. Possibly give some guidance, let the parent know what's happening with siblings friends. We can REQUIRE the older siblings to partially do OUR JOBS for us but really....Don't you want more for your children? Let kids be kids, and parents be parents.
We are considering having another baby at the moment but due to the abuse it does to the females health, we are hesitant. She has osteopenia and would loose more bone mass, though she has grown a whole lot back. I had a vascectomy which would need to be reversed so it doesn't look good.
Though we have one teenager at home, it would NOT be his responsibility to raise OUR new baby. He may be willing to help with some parental duties, but he deserves time to be what he is, a big brother. Nor would I trust his guidance upon a few sensitive subjects.
I tried to google the medical implications of giving birth, but came up with nothing. Our good friend is a retired MD who suggested my wife not get pregnant. He explained one looses bone mass with each pregnancy, and stated he could go on and on concerning the abuse it does to the female body. It also shortens life span.
It would be nice to hear from a MD who can explain the medical implications of pregnancy. That in itself, is reason enough to limit pregnancies .
It's just sad. These people are mentally unstable, period.
