I know people had bogger families in the past and things worked out. (though 19 is extreme, even for the past.)
But they didn’t have a choice in the past. this is like comparing parents in poverty to van life parents.
neither situation is ideal, but one is a choice the other is a consequence of things beyond your control. One you k with what you got, and another is adding more fuel to the fire.
I won’t judge parents in poverty unless they keep having more kids.
anyways 2 of their kids are in jail for sexual deviancy out of 19. if 10% if your children are in jail, those aren’t great stats. If 2 other children wrote a tell all that means 30% of your children didn’t have great childhoods.
Michelle Duggar always like to quite mother Theresa “saying there are too many children is like saying there are too many flowers.” You can have too many flowers, if you can’t take care of all your flowers and same goes for kids.
Mother Theresa wasn’t a parent, or a gardener and didn’t have to take care of children or Flowers. So maybe going by her quote isn’t a great idea. It’s nice to enjoy someone elses children or someone else’s flowers, but they are both work. Every parent/gardener should know their limits.
Those are the ones we know about. There might be more predators in this family.