Should Jon & Kate Plus 8 Be Taken Off the Air?

Kate and Jon Gosselin are the proud parents of a set of 6 year old twins and 3 year old sextuplets and are featured on the TLC/Discovery Health show Jon & Kate Plus 8. This show is supposed to focus on the difficulties and pleasures of raising eight children yet lately the producers have been focusing more on Kate's aggressiveness towards her husband than the kids themselves. They are cashing in on the circus that is Kate's OCD and tendencies towards verbal abuse towards her husband and many viewers find this unacceptable.

While I respect Kate for managing eight children and the commotion that comes along with it, my respect instantly vanishes when I see her howling at her husband and embarrassing him time and time again.

Yes, the producers edit the footage for the most interesting or controversial content to gain viewership. No marriage is perfect and all couples argue and fight from time to time. Sometimes you have to raise your voice to be heard over a crowd. Raising eight children is no cakewalk . This is all common knowledge and understandable.

What I find appalling is how she has no concept of how bad she berates him or the frequency of which it occurs. It's human nature to censor yourself both out in public and in front of a camera, so is it possible that Kate treats Jon much worse when the cameras are off? When the cameras are on, the producer has been known to call Kate out about overreactions and nastiness towards Jon. Every time Kate dismisses the producer's observations and acts like everyone who doesn't think like her is insane.

One example of her explosive nature was the now infamous scene in Toys R Us where near the checkout lines she yells out, "HellOOOOOOooOOOO!!!" [sic] at the top of her voice to get his attention and started barking out orders to her husband, a grown man. With everyone staring her down, Jon left the store in embarrassment and later told her how he didn't appreciated being treated like a dog. Kate thoroughly dismissed his feelings and acted as if it was a normal occurrence by saying, "Oh, did I?"