Salon.com > 20 and Counting http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 19:07:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Stop judging the Duggars http://www.salon.com/2011/11/09/stop_judging_the_duggars/ http://www.salon.com/2011/11/09/stop_judging_the_duggars/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10184402 Our famous families have their specialties. And just as surely as Kardashians like to get engaged and Lohans get arrested, the Duggars excel in the field of making more Duggars. So that's exactly what they're doing. But as the family gets ready to welcome its 20th member, has America's fertility freak show crossed the line?

The spectacularly fecund Duggars entered the reality game already way ahead of the Gosselins, and even left Octomom Nadya Suleman in the dust. They've been a source of weird fascination ever since they welcomed their 15th child on their first television special seven years -- and five pregnancies -- ago. And each time their brood increases, so does the public scorn. Along with occasional good wishes, commenters on the L.A. Times website have been writing things like: "How about you bolt your knees together?" and "Lady, your hooha isn't a clown car!"

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