It must be time to get up again by the time they finish saying goodnight to each other.

Please don’t tell Miriam this news. Who knows how much the Irish population would have grown if RTE hadn’t put her on the telly every night.

They need a telly!

Shure God bless that couple’s energy – they must have a VERY big house- in years gone by Irish woman birthed that many children –and more – and they weren’t wealthy by any means – just Catholic, God help them!!!

We used to joke about large families having half a football team, they’ve got the whole panel and trainer in there.
If they are happy (no doubt they are) best of luck to them!

I came across their show one night on some channel & I have to say they surprised me. The title had me judging them before I watched it. However they really came across as a very happy,loving family. All the children were beyond gorgeous. So well behaved & so lovely towards each other. But then the parents came across as truly decent,gentle, loving people.
I like everyone else was quick to judge them but having watched the show came away thinking how each & everyone one of those kids were loved,cared for & above all wanted. They were the nearest thing to the Waltons!

Relax with the abortion issue would yiz, and stop with the sausage up O’connell street gags i heard in national school 40 years ago. They are a freak show family, a collective bearded lady if you will, who are cashing in to pay for grub, food and school.Not every story warrants serious debate and no story needs pre pubescent Brendan Grace attempts at humour. Enjoy the rest of your day.

Having 20 children wouldn’t be my cup of tea but this family home school there children,they built a house with more than enough room for everyone,they built there house debt free by doing as much work as they could themselves,they are an extremely self sufficient family and happy!!in these times its reassuring that a family as large as theirs can manage and children can be raised in a loving safe environment unlike the millions of children who are born starving, neglected or abused by the very people who brought them into this world!before we all jump to criticise this family keep in mind there are unwanted children born every minute into terrible situations so i dont know what all the fuss is about,if they want to have 40 kids n can love,nurture and provide for them who are we to judge!

I went to school with a couple of people from large (15 +) families, and they were some of the soundest, well balanced, most hard working people I have ever met. They looked out for their siblings, and from the little I Jane seen of the Duggars TV show, they seem to be a loving, happy hard working family too, so why is everyone going all judgemental on them? What gives US the right to decide how they should live? As long as their children are healthy and happy and well looked after (as they appear to be) then what is the problem? If it’s what they want, then I say best of luck to them.

Watch BBC David Attenborough – how many people can live on planet earth? here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF15YAvT9G0

My ( only ) child watches there show, and he always says he’d love to go and live with them!! They are a good clean living family, who home school and bring there children up with strong morals and ideas, the older children and the father go to third world countries twice a year to help build and teach! maybe we could all do with going to live with the duggars for a year!

Ah jayzus. Why do people believe they have the right to tell other people how to live. It’s just beyond me. Can they not look after their own house. Can they not just shut up. Stop telling people what to do. Stop telling people they can’t have 20 kids or someone else they can’t abort. It is not your responsibility. Sort out your own house. It’s a mess. You know its a mess. A total mess and as much as it is easier to look away than look back to that which is pointing. Look back and keep looking until you see.

Get a sense of humor olive.

Susan, does Mrs Dugger have the same right to say “no” to her husband or is that a “religious” thing too??

I don’t think that the Duggers care what other people say. They already have 19 children and another one on the way to prove that.

Let’s see they’re fundamentalist baptists they parent without affection they practice revisionist history and censored education theyre supported by a huge range of corporate sponsors and product placement deals and they don’t exactly like Darwin !! Freaks

Won’t someone think of the children?

for god sake people, they can do what the hell they like, a very happy family, who will enjoy life together better than one or two spoiled brats.

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great, if a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.

The argument that they can afford the family doesn’t work – poorer families have much less environmental impact than a standard americal family. The average american consumes far more of the worlds resources than any other nationality – land, water, oil – you name it – doing far more harm and leaving less for others. Just because they are wealthy does not give them the right to take more.

Whatever they are they look lovely

She should take some advice from Twink and tell him to ‘Zip up yer mickey!!

can someone explain the sausage up O’Connell street joke!?

Esther, maybe its my eyesight but are there two babies in your picture or are they your new silicon implants?

Before people chime in making further disparaging and graphic remarks about Mrs Duggars genitals or rant about spiralling world population, let’s remember a woman’s right to choose. It isn’t just the right to abortion, but rather the right to do whatever the heck she wants with her own body and her own reproductive health. The right to choose works both ways. It works every way. And while I personally think this family is bonkers, they all seem healthy and weirdly happy and are debt free and do don’t take any money from government programmes.

I don’t think a woman has the right to choose and I don’t think that she has the right to not choose. The issue is far more complicated than simply keeping or getting rid of an unborn child.
In some countries, abortion is too easy an option, especially where the decision is based on the fact that the child would be just an inconvenience. I think abortion should be an option in certain cases and I also think having 20 kids is ridiculous.

Look at the projections for the effects of population growth on the planet – it will be in our childrens lifetimes that resource wars start, food and water will become scarce – and just because this is a wet country doesn’t make us exempt – we depend a lot on imports – even the shirt on our backs takes thousands of litres of water to produce – one and a half billion people already don’t have enough water – if you care about your children wake up to the population explosion that is occurring – we don’t want to go back to the middle ages do we?

Will someone please write me the channel one may watch this show? Thank you.

Will someone please write me the channel one may watch this programe?

Someone should buy them a DVD player to occupy their time.

On every level, having 20 children is wrong. It’s wrong for the kids, wrong for the parents and bad for the planet. Imagine if this caught on. Those parents are a disgrace.

Fair play to the woman who was pregnant in total for half her life lol. I remember my wife going through the nausea and all that difficulties, bit of nightmare to be honest and try this over 20 times. It’s great to have such big family I think, but all the responsibility and number of daily worries must be just insane.

The God Channel

Spending time with your kids is really important and with 19 and one more on the way I’m sure more that enough of them will feel neglected in some way.

You cant go to all their sports events, take all of them to the cinema, spend a daddy daughter day with one child.

I’m sure there’s plenty of crappy parents with one or two kids who dont do that was well but with 19 its practically taking the piss.

If one has ADD or dyslexia how much time can this family realistically afford to invest in helping this child.

Also I can only assume that this family wont have much cash for further education for one let alone ten of the brood.

Have all the kids you want but 19 is excessive in my opinion. Kids need attention and with 20 they will only get minutes a day. This can be the case with 2 or three kids due to bad parenting, substance abuse issue but have 20 kids is literally deciding that the first 12, 12, 15 aren’t special enough.

great, 20 more republicans :(

Paul don’t think that rude remark was called for!!!!!